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I tried to do accurate passed balls back in OOTP4, and it was an unmitigated disaster. The OOTP engine seems to have no idea what to do when you put in a number like "47" for passed balls.
As for HBP, to the best of my knowledge that data isn't available in the 1870s. I know it's there for the 1890s, because in past replays I've had guys rack up 40-50 of them a season. Right now, my league leaders are probably around 5-6 HBP, so I'd say they're more common than home runs, less common than triples.
Also, OOTP isn't perfect when it comes to modeling fielding percentage, but because I'm using real fielding percentages I'm typically seeing an average of around 6 errors per team per game. That's actually well below the accurate numbers, but it looks like it's the best it can do.
Generally, I think that within the limitations of the game engine and the Lahman database, this is pretty close to the best results I can get. I'm not thrilled about the low PB numbers, but I also don't want to spend ten test sims just to try to get the number exactly right.
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