Fictional League - Standard Settings (base year)

SoCal Doug · 01-08-2010, 10:39 PM

In Fictional League Set-up, you select the year the "Standard Settings" will be based on.

Is there any information or list of the differences between seasons?

bwburke94 · 01-12-2010, 09:22 PM

Basically, they are all the stats from the year in question compiled into a league average.

SoCal Doug · 01-12-2010, 11:28 PM

Right, but if I start a year and I want it to be an average season during a certain era, I'd like to be able to see which year is the average year, or which are at the extremes, etc.

I know some years, if I pick 1987 during the 80's I will have a big hitters year, but what would be at the opposite end of the spectrum, what would be an average year.

Right now I just feel like I'm just kind of poking my finger at a year on the screen to randomly choose which to start with.

Kelric · 01-13-2010, 11:14 AM

Your best bet is to look on baseball-reference.com at the year you'd like to choose and see how it lines up to the rest of the era you want to recreate.

SoCal Doug · 01-20-2010, 08:33 PM

I tracked down the batting info on Baseballreference.com and was fortunately able to copy/paste the date into a spreadsheet.

So I started looking at what an 'average' season would be from 1905 or so to the present and interestingly it ended up (based on the stats I was looking at) to be the early 80's and a couple of seasons in the early 50's.

Then I checked from 1980 to the present and in the mix was 1987 after all, which was the one I had been thinking of using, with 77 and 02 about the same. But 1993 really stood out above the rest in case anyone is looking for a good average year since 1980.

SoCal Doug

01-08-2010, 10:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
SoCal Doug Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 42 Thanks: 9 Thanked 3x in 2 posts	Fictional League - Standard Settings (base year) In Fictional League Set-up, you select the year the "Standard Settings" will be based on. Is there any information or list of the differences between seasons?

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bwburke94 All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The western border of Red Sox Nation Posts: 572 Thanks: 2 Thanked 52x in 45 posts	Basically, they are all the stats from the year in question compiled into a league average. __________________ Telling people to read the freaking bug reports since 2008. Just because someone overuses the "copy this into your sig if you agree" stuff doesn't mean they're unoriginal. Copy this into your sig if you agree.

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Kelric Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Greater Boston Area Posts: 3,983 Thanks: 7 Thanked 46x in 36 posts	Your best bet is to look on baseball-reference.com at the year you'd like to choose and see how it lines up to the rest of the era you want to recreate. __________________ Former Co-Commish and owner of the Boston Red Sox, 1783-1144, .609%, of the defunct Overlords Baseball League (1930-48). 17 Division wins, 9 ALCS wins, 5 World Series wins.

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01-12-2010, 11:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
SoCal Doug Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 42 Thanks: 9 Thanked 3x in 2 posts	Right, but if I start a year and I want it to be an average season during a certain era, I'd like to be able to see which year is the average year, or which are at the extremes, etc. I know some years, if I pick 1987 during the 80's I will have a big hitters year, but what would be at the opposite end of the spectrum, what would be an average year. Right now I just feel like I'm just kind of poking my finger at a year on the screen to randomly choose which to start with.

01-20-2010, 08:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
SoCal Doug Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 42 Thanks: 9 Thanked 3x in 2 posts	I tracked down the batting info on Baseballreference.com and was fortunately able to copy/paste the date into a spreadsheet. So I started looking at what an 'average' season would be from 1905 or so to the present and interestingly it ended up (based on the stats I was looking at) to be the early 80's and a couple of seasons in the early 50's. Then I checked from 1980 to the present and in the mix was 1987 after all, which was the one I had been thinking of using, with 77 and 02 about the same. But 1993 really stood out above the rest in case anyone is looking for a good average year since 1980. SoCal Doug