Do you ever get guys who have extremely long careers?
I thought I might have to tweak my walk settings because I noticed my all-time leader (batter) has 3134 career walks. After looking at his card though..he was always had a good but believable walk totals for his career but he played from the age of 19 to 45...pretty much a full-time starter from 20-45 years old.
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Career Batting Stats
Year Team Age G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP
1901 Charlotte 19 17 28 9 2 0 0 5 3 5 4 0 0 .321 .424 .393 .817 1.9
1902 Charlotte 20 131 244 79 9 1 9 32 44 41 48 3 0 .324 .424 .480 .903 24.2
1903 Charlotte 21 155 606 158 33 6 9 60 88 95 98 4 6 .261 .364 .380 .744 2.8
1904 Charlotte 22 154 541 160 26 3 13 63 99 138 79 6 5 .296 .443 .427 .869 41.2
1905 Charlotte 23 151 558 169 27 5 10 74 90 121 51 3 3 .303 .430 .423 .853 38.8
1906 Charlotte 24 154 554 190 48 13 13 87 111 127 52 5 9 .343 .465 .547 1.012 80.2
1907 Charlotte 25 153 552 164 35 9 21 93 108 127 68 10 3 .297 .426 .507 .934 59.1
1908 Portland 26 153 572 182 29 9 22 91 103 95 49 5 6 .318 .418 .516 .934 61.8
1909 Portland 27 154 566 173 30 10 19 85 94 107 57 7 8 .306 .417 .495 .912 46.1
1910 Portland 28 154 564 181 38 3 15 62 112 107 62 11 7 .321 .432 .479 .911 57.1
1911 Portland 29 153 566 161 25 7 24 78 108 110 67 7 6 .284 .404 .481 .884 45.4
1912 Portland 30 157 581 177 29 4 28 78 100 105 52 4 5 .305 .413 .513 .926 61.5
1913 Portland 31 154 552 177 33 12 18 79 99 127 39 11 12 .321 .448 .522 .970 70.1
1914 Portland 32 155 577 175 29 6 20 89 98 105 53 7 5 .303 .416 .478 .894 56.8
1915 Portland 33 153 533 160 21 9 14 71 92 144 52 17 7 .300 .452 .452 .904 58.5
1916 Portland 34 155 549 177 32 3 27 83 108 129 43 10 6 .322 .451 .539 .990 79.4
1917 Portland 35 143 508 177 30 6 24 81 109 115 47 7 7 .348 .467 .573 1.040 85.4
1918 Orlando 36 155 527 177 22 5 29 96 123 170 40 3 6 .336 .505 .562 1.067 97.9
1919 Orlando 37 156 525 138 16 3 18 115 98 147 50 0 3 .263 .422 .408 .829 34.8
1920 Orlando 38 156 535 158 20 10 25 86 119 151 39 6 2 .295 .453 .510 .963 72.2
1921 Orlando 39 155 552 175 20 5 29 122 132 143 31 3 2 .317 .459 .529 .988 78.2
1922 Orlando 40 143 506 149 22 8 20 90 102 138 33 2 5 .294 .447 .488 .935 60.3
1923 Orlando 41 142 482 141 20 2 18 68 107 138 39 4 4 .293 .451 .454 .905 53.7
1924 Orlando 42 128 445 140 21 3 18 88 106 117 37 1 0 .315 .462 .497 .958 61.1
1925 Orlando 43 154 540 152 23 2 12 77 85 125 53 6 3 .281 .421 .398 .820 44.0
1926 Orlando 44 154 546 154 30 1 15 61 114 148 68 9 7 .282 .437 .423 .860 49.6
1927 San Antonio 45 152 225 70 9 3 0 27 43 59 22 3 3 .311 .464 .378 .842 20.5
Year Age G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP
Total 27 yrs. 3941 13534 4123 679 148 470 2041 2595 3134 1333 154 130 .305 .437 .481 .918 1442.3
I have the stadium sets up so that I have a league-wide average for park factors of:
AVG: 1.000
2B: 1.001
3B: 1.000
HR: 1.000
But I have the vs L and R factors at the individual parks all over the place from lows of .890 to a highs of 1.125. For me this gives a little personality to the parks as you'll be able to tell which parks our pitchers parks and what ones are hitters parks. I like the setting it up that way so that if a team gets a player that suits their park he can really put up some nice numbers over the course of a whole career creating some guys whose careers seem to standout which makes it feel less vanilla to me.
I just didn't anticipate guys playing 27 years. Any 41 seasons so far my top 10 in games looks like this:
Games Years
3941 (1901-1927)
3527 (1901-1924)
3482 (1905-1930)
3452 (1904-1928)
3386 (1909-1931)
3365 (1914-1937)
3363 (1913-1936)
3318 (1916-1939)
3260 (1913-1936)
3172 (1905-1926)
Considering there have only been 8 players in real-life who have over 3000 games and only three players who have more than 3081 games....I think the only setting I need to tweak should be aging.
Using Skydogs settings 1.01 I'm very happy with the stats as a whole. I've had one .400 hitter (.403), season high of 57 HR with only a few guys who have been able to get 50+. All-time HR hitter has 719, one other has 663 and everybody else in the top 100 is between 290 and 558. Really happy with everything except careers are lasting a bit too long which obviously effects certain career stats.
Now...after way too much rambling on my part....
Does anybody have any aging settings that they use that I could use as a starting point or any advice on the subject for that matter.
Thanks.