Global Variation Year to Year...

[dodgecharger1968]

This was a thought I had while I was looking at the history of one of my leagues. Think about 1987 and 1988 in MLB. 1987 saw 7 out of 26 teams fail to hit .260 overall. 1988 saw 8 succeed in reaching .260 as a team. OK, '87 was a big offensive year, fine. Tony Gwynn won the '87 NL batting title hitting .370. Tony Gwynn won the '88 NL batting title hitting .313.

Anyway, without going overboard into this, it seems to me like something you don't see in OOTP. Sure, guys have up years and down years, but no one wins a batting title at .313 (and if they do, it's not the same guy who hit .370 last year!). I mean, is that really an "off year" for Tony Gwynn, if he wins the batting title? Some years pitching dominates and some years it's hitting, for whatever reason, and I'd like to see some way to convey that, like maybe a range of formulaic inputs instead of a certain number. Just a thought, maybe I have the wrong impression of the statistics.