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Ironically, that .477 came the year I did the modifiers manually. Once the game took things over, players came back to normal. The primary reason the one guy hit .414 for his career is that he came into the bigs in the inaugural season at 28 or 29 and dropped out of it by the time he was 36 or so. You hit .477 one of the 7 or 8 full years you're in the league, you're going to have one fat average.
Honestly, I ended up throwing that season out because I kind of agree that .477 is too much. .440 I would have accepted since after all Nap Lajoie did hit .429 in '01. I still think that's cool because I never once saw a player flirt with .400 in any prior version.
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