</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Max Venerable:
<strong>Cool, thanks Tiger Fan....
those settings will be a big help im sure.... I guess they should be good up until about 1920 or so, right? the onslaught of babe ruth and all...
-Max</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yes, they should give you fairly realistic stats until then. Just keep an eye on your results each season and if things start to get out of hand in any category you can make small adjustments to the settings. What I generally do is take 10 minutes at the end of each season and go to the league batting and pitching reports. I add up the number of homers, triples, doubles, walks, k's and batting average for my league and compare it to the real life numbers the following season. If there are some discrepancies over 5% I change my league settings slightly prior to starting the next season.
Things can develop differently in every league and injuries to a couple superstar pitchers could affect your league settings slightly as well. Speaking of pitchers remember to edit your era setting to a 4 man rotation starting in 1904 since most teams used 4 consistantly. The Giants stayed primarily with 3 starters until 1905 and the Highlanders (Yankees) used really just 2 starters consistantly. This change may increase your offensive stats a fair bit so you may have to tone the settings down a bit (by raising hits and/or homers on the league setup menu) since the 4th starters will see more action and they arent as good as your 1-3 starters generally.
The schedule jumped from 140 to 154 games in 1904, One final note if you are assigning rookies to their real teams you need to move Milwaukee to St Louis following 1901 and change the short name of the team to SLB (for Lahman 4.5). Following the 1902 season move the Baltimore franchise to New York and make sure the short name is NYY.
<small>[ 04-09-2002, 06:22 AM: Message edited by: Tiger Fan ]</small>
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