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Old 03-23-2007, 03:34 PM   #168
molson
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by Ksyrup View Post
See, in 1989, the saves leader is 557 - a guy named Billy McCool (gotta love it!) whose career began in 1964. There are 5 guys with 350 or more saves by 1989; IRL, in 2007, there are only 6.

Saves must be a weird stat for sims to get a handle on - there’s a ton of variables in how closers are used. Guys might lose the job for a few weeks to get their stuff back together, a team might try other guys in the role late in the year, a manager might keep a middle reliever in with a 2 run lead against a weak team. I can live with some amount of save inflation in a sim universe.
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