[ravinhood]

I think what he desires is GOOD/GREAT starters completing their games, but, not every tom, dick or harry that just has average endurance. I sort of like the average guys getting some complete games so I sort of stay at the normal setting myself.

[SkyDog]

Originally Posted by ravinhood

I think what he desires is GOOD/GREAT starters completing their games, but, not every tom, dick or harry that just has average endurance. I sort of like the average guys getting some complete games so I sort of stay at the normal setting myself.

Correct. Definitely a matter of personal preference there.

[HolyCow98]

Do you ever get guys who have extremely long careers?

I thought I might have to tweak my walk settings because I noticed my all-time leader (batter) has 3134 career walks. After looking at his card though..he was always had a good but believable walk totals for his career but he played from the age of 19 to 45...pretty much a full-time starter from 20-45 years old.

Career Batting Stats  
Year   Team      Age  G   AB   H  2B 3B  HR  RBI   R  BB   K  SB CS   AVG  OBP  SLG  OPS   VORP 
1901 Charlotte   19   17  28   9   2  0   0    5   3   5   4   0  0  .321 .424 .393 .817   1.9 
1902 Charlotte   20  131 244  79   9  1   9   32  44  41  48   3  0  .324 .424 .480 .903  24.2 
1903 Charlotte   21  155 606 158  33  6   9   60  88  95  98   4  6  .261 .364 .380 .744   2.8 
1904 Charlotte   22  154 541 160  26  3  13   63  99 138  79   6  5  .296 .443 .427 .869  41.2 
1905 Charlotte   23  151 558 169  27  5  10   74  90 121  51   3  3  .303 .430 .423 .853  38.8 
1906 Charlotte   24  154 554 190  48 13  13   87 111 127  52   5  9  .343 .465 .547 1.012 80.2 
1907 Charlotte   25  153 552 164  35  9  21   93 108 127  68  10  3  .297 .426 .507 .934  59.1 
1908 Portland    26  153 572 182  29  9  22   91 103  95  49   5  6  .318 .418 .516 .934  61.8 
1909 Portland    27  154 566 173  30 10  19   85  94 107  57   7  8  .306 .417 .495 .912  46.1 
1910 Portland    28  154 564 181  38  3  15   62 112 107  62  11  7  .321 .432 .479 .911  57.1 
1911 Portland    29  153 566 161  25  7  24   78 108 110  67   7  6  .284 .404 .481 .884  45.4 
1912 Portland    30  157 581 177  29  4  28   78 100 105  52   4  5  .305 .413 .513 .926  61.5 
1913 Portland    31  154 552 177  33 12  18   79  99 127  39  11 12  .321 .448 .522 .970  70.1 
1914 Portland    32  155 577 175  29  6  20   89  98 105  53   7  5  .303 .416 .478 .894  56.8 
1915 Portland    33  153 533 160  21  9  14   71  92 144  52  17  7  .300 .452 .452 .904  58.5 
1916 Portland    34  155 549 177  32  3  27   83 108 129  43  10  6  .322 .451 .539 .990  79.4 
1917 Portland    35  143 508 177  30  6  24   81 109 115  47   7  7  .348 .467 .573 1.040 85.4 
1918 Orlando     36  155 527 177  22  5  29   96 123 170  40   3  6  .336 .505 .562 1.067 97.9 
1919 Orlando     37  156 525 138  16  3  18  115  98 147  50   0  3  .263 .422 .408 .829  34.8 
1920 Orlando     38  156 535 158  20 10  25   86 119 151  39   6  2  .295 .453 .510 .963  72.2 
1921 Orlando     39  155 552 175  20  5  29  122 132 143  31   3  2  .317 .459 .529 .988  78.2 
1922 Orlando     40  143 506 149  22  8  20   90 102 138  33   2  5  .294 .447 .488 .935  60.3 
1923 Orlando     41  142 482 141  20  2  18   68 107 138  39   4  4  .293 .451 .454 .905  53.7 
1924 Orlando     42  128 445 140  21  3  18   88 106 117  37   1  0  .315 .462 .497 .958  61.1 
1925 Orlando     43  154 540 152  23  2  12   77  85 125  53   6  3  .281 .421 .398 .820  44.0 
1926 Orlando     44  154 546 154  30  1  15   61 114 148  68   9  7  .282 .437 .423 .860  49.6 
1927 San Antonio 45  152 225  70   9  3   0   27  43  59  22   3  3  .311 .464 .378 .842  20.5

Year     Age     G    AB    H   2B  3B  HR  RBI   R   BB    K   SB  CS   AVG  OBP  SLG  OPS   VORP  
Total  27 yrs. 3941 13534 4123 679 148 470 2041 2595 3134 1333 154 130  .305 .437 .481 .918  1442.3

I have the stadium sets up so that I have a league-wide average for park factors of:

AVG: 1.000
2B: 1.001
3B: 1.000
HR: 1.000

But I have the vs L and R factors at the individual parks all over the place from lows of .890 to a highs of 1.125. For me this gives a little personality to the parks as you'll be able to tell which parks our pitchers parks and what ones are hitters parks. I like the setting it up that way so that if a team gets a player that suits their park he can really put up some nice numbers over the course of a whole career creating some guys whose careers seem to standout which makes it feel less vanilla to me.

I just didn't anticipate guys playing 27 years. Any 41 seasons so far my top 10 in games looks like this:

Games Years
3941 (1901-1927)
3527 (1901-1924)
3482 (1905-1930)
3452 (1904-1928)
3386 (1909-1931)
3365 (1914-1937)
3363 (1913-1936)
3318 (1916-1939)
3260 (1913-1936)
3172 (1905-1926)

Considering there have only been 8 players in real-life who have over 3000 games and only three players who have more than 3081 games....I think the only setting I need to tweak should be aging.

Using Skydogs settings 1.01 I'm very happy with the stats as a whole. I've had one .400 hitter (.403), season high of 57 HR with only a few guys who have been able to get 50+. All-time HR hitter has 719, one other has 663 and everybody else in the top 100 is between 290 and 558. Really happy with everything except careers are lasting a bit too long which obviously effects certain career stats.

Now...after way too much rambling on my part....

Does anybody have any aging settings that they use that I could use as a starting point or any advice on the subject for that matter.


Thanks.

[jayharvill]

for clarification, if I download the template(which looks impressive)

and I delete teams to get down to a 24 team league, will it still function correctly?

[Kemp]

Originally Posted by jayharvill

for clarification, if I download the template(which looks impressive)

and I delete teams to get down to a 24 team league, will it still function correctly?

Yes, it should.