Here’s the season totals summary for 1877. Here's how the numbers compared with real life:
NA = Real National Association
TBS = The Baseball Saga (my sim)
* = estimated totals (no actual league totals available)
Code:
Stat NA TBS %Diff
G 360 360 0.0%
AB 13667 13689 0.2
H 3705 3596 3.0
2B 431 424 1.7
3B 204 199 2.5
HR 24 23 4.3
BB 345 378 8.7
K 726 752 3.5
SB 216* 222 2.7
CS 118* 108 9.3
R 2040 1887 8.1
AVG .271 .263 3.2
OBP .289 .285 1.4
SLG .338 .328 3.1
IP 3241 3218.2 0.7
CG 326 223 46.2
SHO 20 11 81.8
ERA 2.81 2.63 6.8
Notes:
1. Pretty good showing this year with the most obvious thing being that runs scored were a bit lower than in real life. This is one of the first times where I’ve run into this as I’ve typically been a bit high on runs scored. Still not bad, though. Last time I spoke a bit about adjusting the fielding in the game based on runs scored even though I don’t have good fielding data to go off of. I did, in fact lower the error rate a bit. Considering that both the ERA and the total runs scored were a bit low, I think the error rate isn’t necessarily to blame here. Rather, I think the problem came down to hits being a little low, SB% being a bit low, and K’s being a bit high.
2. I seem to be getting a little closer on complete games as the league goes along. I alluded to the fact that St. Louis really employed a 2-man rotation in my final monthly sim update for the 1877 season. This was not something I had configured in league settings. League settings were set for 1-man rotations still, but St. Louis clearly had two pitchers they felt comfortable with, and the team had 8 more CG’s than any other team in the league. I also think the schedule is to help. The 1877 NL schedule is far more regular since it was organized by the league itself instead of the individual teams.
League Leading Stats
These stats represent the top individual performance in each category.
Code:
Stat NA TBS
AVG .387 .353*
OBP .407 .395*
SLG .545 .470*
H 103 91
2B 19 16
3B 11 11
HR 4 2
BB 20 16
SB ?? 16
ERA 2.11 1.88+
W 40 22
IP 559.0 351.0
K 170 94
CG 61 26
SHO 6 3
L 25 19
*-Minimum of 200 PA's on the batting rates..
+-Minimum of 150 IP for the ERA title.
Actual League Settings
These are the values I had entered on the Strategy tab in League Setup.
Code:
League Totals Modifiers
AB 167353
H 44522 .958
2B 8919 .504
3B 898 1.926
HR 5451 4.400
BB 16222 2.208
HBP 1850 .644
K 31828 1.620
BABIP .285
Errors 4.350
DP's .458
SP End 6.000
RP End 1.000
GB% .876
WP 1.984
Balks .100
PB's 19.517
SF .112
SB .782
SB Att .366
SB Suc% .993
I have the settings checked to automatically adjust league totals modifiers after each season and to automatically import player creation modifiers. That said, I modified almost all of the modifiers settings in order to get the results that I did.