League Total Modifiers for Fictional League

[Klew1986]

Does anyone have any good league total modifiers they use for fictional games? I am working on my fictional game (24 team league). Right now, I just have them at default 1.000 all the way down. Below is a screen shot of the league history page showing lg average for hitting and pitching.

I would like to have the ERAs around 3.5-3.70 (at most). What changes would you make?

[ra7c7er]

Looks pretty good to me. BA is on par with the real life MLB in the past 10-20 years. ERA is a bit low overall but not out of bounds or anything?

What type of stat line are you looking for?

[Klew1986]

Originally Posted by ra7c7er

Looks pretty good to me. BA is on par with the real life MLB in the past 10-20 years. ERA is a bit low overall but not out of bounds or anything?

What type of stat line are you looking for?

I'm not sure. I don't really mess with these in the past, but wanted input on stuff.

[RchW]

You cant really tell until you compare the actual output of the league to those league totals. Only then can you apply modifiers.Those league totals are a little wonky to my eye. You're going to have trouble getting ERA less than 4 consistently with that many HR and BB.

As an example lets say you got 6200 HR instead of 5900 HR then the modifier would be (simplistically) 5900/6200 = 0.9516. It's not as simple as that. OOTP tends to have 3%-5% more AB than RL leagues so you have to normalize the output to the AB in your league totals.

Have you used autocalc? It is available from the start of the pre-season (I think) but should be used just before the start of the regular season. It will modifiy the LT based on a quick internal 3 year sim. That is why it's important to run it just before the season; so that it sims with close to your starting roster.

[DCG12]

What I usually do is go to BB Reference and on the left side of the page scroll down just a bit and click leagues. Then on the right side under All Major Leagues click either batting or pitching. Then you can scroll through and find a year that has BA and/or ERA that you like. Now enter those totals for the various catagories into OOTP. If you do this during pre-season there will be a box next to the modifiers that you click to make your league come out to the right totals. It actually changes the modifier to reflect the talent in your league. I've found it to be pretty accuarate. I usually click this every couple years to keep it from drifting too far.

[ra7c7er]

Originally Posted by Klew1986

I'm not sure. I don't really mess with these in the past, but wanted input on stuff.

I'll be honest I don't like messing with the modifiers but since you have a few years simmed out and are using historical settings. why not roll back the year to one where the numbers were pretty close to what you wanted and then keep the settings at that year. That's how I was doing it when I was changing things for my leagues.

Others will have much better answers though.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by DCG12

What I usually do is go to BB Reference and on the left side of the page scroll down just a bit and click leagues. Then on the right side under All Major Leagues click either batting or pitching. Then you can scroll through and find a year that has BA and/or ERA that you like. Now enter those totals for the various catagories into OOTP. If you do this during pre-season there will be a box next to the modifiers that you click to make your league come out to the right totals. It actually changes the modifier to reflect the talent in your league. I've found it to be pretty accuarate. I usually click this every couple years to keep it from drifting too far.

Good idea. There must be a balance or you wont get the output expected.

[Ruthian23]

I asked a similar question the other day and RchW directed to this thread:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...modifiers.html

There's an Excel workbook there and instructions on how to use it to make sure your league total modifiers aren't getting wonky. I created a somewhat streamlined version of that spreadsheet for myself, but the method is so far proving very effective for keeping my league totals in check.

Also, I'm sure you've done this, but if you want the statistical environment to remain static, make sure you have more/less pitching and hitting off in your evolution options.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by Ruthian23

I asked a similar question the other day and RchW directed to this thread:

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...modifiers.html

There's an Excel workbook there and instructions on how to use it to make sure your league total modifiers aren't getting wonky. I created a somewhat streamlined version of that spreadsheet for myself, but the method is so far proving very effective for keeping my league totals in check.

Also, I'm sure you've done this, but if you want the statistical environment to remain static, make sure you have more/less pitching and hitting off in your evolution options.

Do you mind sharing your streamlined version? I'm always looking for an easier way to do this work.

[Ruthian23]

Originally Posted by RchW

Do you mind sharing your streamlined version? I'm always looking for an easier way to do this work.

I actually asked for your permission in the other thread to piggyback off your work and post it and didn't want to do so until I'd heard back from you. Would you be willing to take a look at it and confirm that it does essentially the same thing yours does? I think it does, but I don't want to find out I've missed a step and steered people wrong.

Essentially, I reduced it to a two worksheet document for a single league, and made it so that you just need to enter the batting, pitching, and fielding totals, then scroll down and enter the league modifiers, and it figures everything else for you. It's not the most elegant Excel work, but I'm finding it a bit easier for my purposes at the very least.

[RchW]

Anything you want to do is fine by me. There are no claims of ownership on my part. Feel free to post it here or in the other thread. In here might be better for Klew

Any improvements or simplification made by you will benefit me.

[Ruthian23]

Originally Posted by RchW

Anything you want to do is fine by me. There are no claims of ownership on my part. Feel free to post it here or in the other thread. In here might be better for Klew

Any improvements or simplification made by you will benefit me.

I'll post it in this thread later tonight when I get home.

[Klew1986]

Okay. I may just stay with the defaults. That spreadsheet looked scary. LOL

[RchW]

Originally Posted by Klew1986

Okay. I may just stay with the defaults. That spreadsheet looked scary. LOL

Yeah, sorry I can't be of more help, I'm already playing hooky today.

[Ruthian23]

Originally Posted by Klew1986

Okay. I may just stay with the defaults. That spreadsheet looked scary. LOL

At the very least, from what I understand you should definitely click the built in autocalc modifiers button the day before the regular season starts. You can take a look at my version later and see if it's any easier for you to follow.

[sprague]

I work with this a lot so will try to be of help.

First for what you want your league totals are too Hugh. Esp dobles hr and walks. Strikeoits may be too Low as well

Try 2 b at 8400
Hr at 4800
W at like 15000
K at least 35000

Then run in per season the calculate modifiers. They will Go way less Thon 1.000
Then if you dont want to hit Mods everyone per season do it like every 5 years. Your league will probably run more like you want.

[Klew1986]

So I want to check the "Auto adjust league totals modifiers for accuracy" the day before Regular Season. Do I leave it checked? Or do I check it and then uncheck it?

[Ruthian23]

Originally Posted by Klew1986

So I want to check the "Auto adjust league totals modifiers for accuracy" the day before Regular Season. Do I leave it checked? Or do I check it and then uncheck it?

There should be a red button to the top right of that area. You want to hit that button, but leave the auto adjust unchecked, as I understand it. It's important to do it close to Opening Day because the game will know what players are going to be on Opening Day rosters by then.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by Klew1986

So I want to check the "Auto adjust league totals modifiers for accuracy" the day before Regular Season. Do I leave it checked? Or do I check it and then uncheck it?

No, please never use this check mark. Bad things may happen.

[Klew1986]

Okay, I just clicked the red button. I only have the 2014 season before I expand to 24 and take over one of those teams. Hopefully I like the settings