Player Creation Modifiers. Am I understanding them correctly?

[JAttractive]

Originally Posted by knockahoma

That's a very inventive solution you devised. And your league totals still seem in line? Seems like something has got to give doesn't it, either the league totals, or the bell curve imbedded within the game?

I have simmed 300 years and it certainly seems to work. I don't think anything needs to give in this case. You just have a situation where teams are forced (by injury, failure to acquire depth, etc.) to sometimes play guys that have no right to be in the bigs. This means the opposition feeds on them.

With pitchers getting free "outs" on the hitters and hitters feasting on weak pitchers the effect on the league totals is basically balanced out. When it comes to individuals though the stars get to pad their stats when these guys play and their career totals may be higher than expected.

The bell curve for player talent (if this is what you mean) is still there, but due to the lack of depth guys at the tail end are played out of necessity instead of sitting in the minors.

That's my theory at least and it seems to work. Of course I had to play with the totals a bit but nothing too crazy. Anyway I'm very happy. Can't wait to start the league.

[JAttractive]

Just when I thought I finally tweaked this exactly to my liking I realize I forgot to set park factors to normalized. Oddly all my career and single game stats seem to relatively in-line with expectations except one: average!

I desperately want to give the opportunity for a player to hit .400 (maybe once every 30 years or so) without bumping the hit totals too high but without changing park factors (beyond a few % up or down) I don't know what else to do. I don't want a guy hitting .400 because the park he is in is giving him a +19% boost to left handed batters!

Any suggestions are welcome. I want to keep ERA totals where they are and I've already dropped walks more than I wanted. HR and 2b are right where I want them...UGH.

[bailey]

I took my league, which I mentioned before uses defaults, except for Walks, K's and HBP which reduced to .900 and BABIP is lowered to .301, normalized ballparks, no finances, no minors, 20-man reserve, and high stamina, 4-man rotations. Then I used the 3 round draft like you suggested and I got .400 hitters. But I was appalled to see a guy with a 1-30 W/L and 11.59 ERA one season, who managed a 10 year career with a lifetime ERA over 8. But, I did get a couple .400 hitters, (16 teams and 35 seasons, IIRC).