[Eugene Church]

CareyScurry:

I will adjust the PB Ratings 60 % and see if I get more accurate figures.

I will post the results in this thread for you.

I'm a realistic perfectionist and I really enjoy the game.

I just adjust things to try to get them as realistic as possible...and when I can't...I just live with it.

I play 1950's baseball.
Modern Day double switches used to drive me crazy...one time the AI even pinched hit for Ty Cobb. I have now learned how to use team strategies and depth charts to almost stop the double switches. But it took me a while to learn how to do it.

The modern day closer use also bothered me...in the 50's a starter with a safe lead finished the game. A reliever was only used if the starter was getting hit hard. It was unheard of for a starter with a shutout being pulled in the ninth for a reliever.
Starters with a 5-10 run lead would pitch the entire game even if he was being hit hard. He was pulled only when the game was in question. The AI will pull a pitcher in the ninth who has a low pitch count and a 15-3 lead. They didn't do this in the 50's...or the 20's, 30's and 40's.

But I have learned to live with it.

But one day when I reach the 1920 season, I will play out the games and make all substitutions...no more double switches...no more closers coming in in the ninth to rob a pitcher of a shutout or complete game.

You should finish a season...or at least try it.

I'm beginning the 1903 season...started in 1901...and am really enjoying it. I am going to sim the regular season...adjusting lineups and pitching rotations monthly...play out the playoffs...will do it this way for about 20 years...then I intend to play out each game. I first want to establish a league history.

My first two years have been very accurate with stat results.
I try to play 1950's style baseball...even in 1901...don't care for the "Deadball Era".

I play a very simple game...no free agency...no trades...no manager mode...no finances, managers, scouts, minors, injury, fatique.

So I don't have a lot to make me unhappy.

Just the normal everyday plays that are missing from the game...no dropped throws...no dropped foul flies...some players never catch foul flies...just to name a few.

And things like the AI using 2 middle relievers very little.

And things like a starter never relieves...except spot starter...and relievers never start...this is when you sim.
(I have even found a way around this).

And things like the PB Rating not being consistent.

And ratings imported from the Lahman Database too many times are just random and not based on fact. That's why I spent endless hours researching player stats and adjusting the ratings after importing players.

I used to have an Alltime Allstar League with 4 leagues and 80 teams and 2000 players...and it wore me out and took all of the fun out the game. I didn't get to play the game much as I was always entering data.

I now have a fictional/historical league and include each season as rookies the alltime great Major Leaguers, Negro Stars, Japanese Stars and Career Minor League Greats.

I add about 2 players per team each year...the worst teams get the best picks. If I don't have enough real major leaguers to add, I add fictional players. In 1902 I only added three real historical players...Addie Joss, Johnny Evers and Carl Lundgren.