[Brian the Stunt Bum]

I seem to have run into a bit of a problem. Now, I know you can tweak the era numbers to try and fix things, but thus far, when I try to lower league averages all I've done is increase disparity.

Over the last 5 seasons i have had at least 5 players end up over .400, and last year there were more than 30 players who batted over .300 just in the AL alone.

Now, I've tried lowering hits, increasing at bats, and tweaking other totals, but the top averages haven't gon down, just the worst players have gotten well, worse. So most of the top hitters are still hitting the same while the lower guys have declined, thus making the league average lower.

So, any ideas?

[sporr]

Well, keep in mind that you have to increase numbers in league totals if you want that stat to go down. This may help you hone in on the proper numbers.

[kq76]

This excel workbook I made might help you:

http://www.geocities.com/kq76/ootp/ (baseball_era_stats_and_ratios.zip)

These threads may help you with any questions about it:

http://www.400softwarestudios.com/bo...t=era+settings

http://www.400softwarestudios.com/bo...ideal+settings

EDIT: Please note this was made for ootp4. It may or may not work as well with ootp5. If it does not, please let me know and I'll tweak it.

EDIT 2: fixed 1st link.

[Vida Blue]

I would like to get your zip file but your link is dead. I most often run historical sims and the problem that plagues me the most are the LEAGUE TOTALS. I recently finished running a sim with V4 from 1920-1991 using Ankits revised database and park effects turned off and I was very happy with the results. I have league totals that I have used (unfortunately none before 1936, duh) if anybody would like to try.

[kq76]

Sorry, go here:

http://www.geocities.com/kq76/ootp/

it should be the 1st link.

[Vida Blue]

Thanks.