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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
OMGLOLOLOL THEY DIDN'T USE ERA OR BA BACK THEN LOLOLOL
Actually the only statistic that they used back in '69 that I'm aware of is a holdover from cricket called "average and over". Essentially it's runs per game, only you treat the decimal as a fraction. A guy who scored 14 times in 7 games would be "2 and zero", a guy who scored 11 times in 5 games would be "2 and 1" and so on. I want to say that batting average is one of the Henry Chadwick additions to the game like runs batted in but I'm not totally sure about that.
Anyway, it's really cool to see all the early, early baseball sims going on. It's the next best thing to leagues of the weird.
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Valid points that I am well aware of, but I believe few here would understand/enjoy the terminology used in 1869 anymore than an HBO audience would "get" the actual language used in Deadwood in the 1870s instead of the modern vulgarities they use in their show of the same name. Besides this is titled the
Completely Fictional History of Baseball so I have no problem throwing in some statistical measures we'd all recognize.
And yep, batting average is the brainchild of Henry Chadwick. So is the earned run average and the box score. We're just using them several years early. I'll try to stay away from things like VORP and Win Shares.