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Old 01-17-2009, 04:47 PM   #12 (permalink)
SteveP
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A minor update on my own experimenting. In the end, I decided that I had to do some editing on the fictional players. My objective was to have the fictional players act in the role of useful backups and replacements for teams depleted by injuries and the like, but not have them be impact players or have ratings/stats higher than the average historical player. In that respect, I found that it was important that these players not be outstanding in any dimension of the game. So that led me to editing fielding, SB/baserunning, and bunting ratings on these players when they showed up on the active rosters of any of the teams. I assume these ratings are created at random without regard to the type of league (ML vs MiL, for example), or the era. A little extra hassle, but I was getting rosters that were too slanted toward the fictional players (especially on expansion teams). FWIW
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