It’s been mentioned that simmed stat results were off, but until I started looking into this the other day, I never realized or imagined how completely off they were or could be. We’re talking REAL bad: dozens of pitchers with over 200 K’s a season; dozens of batters with more than 200 strikeouts a season; several batters on each team with a batting average over .300; most team batting averages over.300 for the year… the list goes on.
I honestly don’t know how much of all that can be fixed. I did get some decent results editing batter ratings – was able to get individual and team batting averages down into the .270 /.280 range – but that meant lowering most batters’ Average and 2B ratings by up to 25 points! I don’t know if this game can handle extreme adjustments of that sort. We’ll see…
Anyway, I chose to start working on pitchers instead, and have had some great results. So what I thought I’d do is maybe just post some general editing rules as I stumble upon them, and I’ll start with these:
To get pitchers’ K’s down to where they should be, their Strikeouts ratings have to be lowered by an average of 25 points or so. Many are in the 75 range, whereas a Strikeouts rating of 50 seems to produces the correct “average” amount of K’s for an “average” pitcher. Example: for a SP, a Strikeouts rating of 50 will produce 130-170 K’s a year. Someone like Clemons who had more than one K per inning should have a Strikeouts rating around 60-65. Someone like Estes who had less than half that, should have a rating in the 30’s. All pitchers should have a strikeout rating between 30 and maybe 65. The exception to this rule are the closers. They seem to sim a bit differently or something, plus they don’t get in as many innings as their real-life counterparts. So someone like Rodriguez (K and a half per inning pitched) needs his rating bumped up into the 90’s. Closers who are less effective might only need their rating in the 60’s or 70’s.
And Base on Balls ratings have to be raised, on average, 30-40 points or so (I’m not kidding). Plus the sad thing is that even then, it’s impossible to get many pitchers to mirror there real-life counterparts, and that’s because simmed results produce way too many BB’s, no matter how high the rating. The best one can do is raise everyone’s rating into the 70-99 range, depending on their ability. That will still give accurate results in the case of some pitchers, plus offer a decent amount of variety. I just highlight a player, click on the right thumbstick, take a look at his 2004 BB numbers compared to innings pitched, and guess-timate whether he should be in the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s. It’s not super-precise, but the results are decent – certainly a lot better than what’s been programmed.
Cool thing: I’ve edited maybe 10 team’s pitchers’ already, and now when I quick-sim a season in order to examine the results and see how the edits are working, I view the season strikeout leaders/stats for batters. Their numbers are all dropping nicely. Before, the first 10-15 guys would all have 200 or more strikeouts for the year. Now it’s maybe 4-5 batters. I anticipate that by the time I’m done with the pitchers, those batters' Strikeouts numbers should be no higher than the upper 100’s.
I honestly don’t know how much of all that can be fixed. I did get some decent results editing batter ratings – was able to get individual and team batting averages down into the .270 /.280 range – but that meant lowering most batters’ Average and 2B ratings by up to 25 points! I don’t know if this game can handle extreme adjustments of that sort. We’ll see…
Anyway, I chose to start working on pitchers instead, and have had some great results. So what I thought I’d do is maybe just post some general editing rules as I stumble upon them, and I’ll start with these:
To get pitchers’ K’s down to where they should be, their Strikeouts ratings have to be lowered by an average of 25 points or so. Many are in the 75 range, whereas a Strikeouts rating of 50 seems to produces the correct “average” amount of K’s for an “average” pitcher. Example: for a SP, a Strikeouts rating of 50 will produce 130-170 K’s a year. Someone like Clemons who had more than one K per inning should have a Strikeouts rating around 60-65. Someone like Estes who had less than half that, should have a rating in the 30’s. All pitchers should have a strikeout rating between 30 and maybe 65. The exception to this rule are the closers. They seem to sim a bit differently or something, plus they don’t get in as many innings as their real-life counterparts. So someone like Rodriguez (K and a half per inning pitched) needs his rating bumped up into the 90’s. Closers who are less effective might only need their rating in the 60’s or 70’s.
And Base on Balls ratings have to be raised, on average, 30-40 points or so (I’m not kidding). Plus the sad thing is that even then, it’s impossible to get many pitchers to mirror there real-life counterparts, and that’s because simmed results produce way too many BB’s, no matter how high the rating. The best one can do is raise everyone’s rating into the 70-99 range, depending on their ability. That will still give accurate results in the case of some pitchers, plus offer a decent amount of variety. I just highlight a player, click on the right thumbstick, take a look at his 2004 BB numbers compared to innings pitched, and guess-timate whether he should be in the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s. It’s not super-precise, but the results are decent – certainly a lot better than what’s been programmed.
Cool thing: I’ve edited maybe 10 team’s pitchers’ already, and now when I quick-sim a season in order to examine the results and see how the edits are working, I view the season strikeout leaders/stats for batters. Their numbers are all dropping nicely. Before, the first 10-15 guys would all have 200 or more strikeouts for the year. Now it’s maybe 4-5 batters. I anticipate that by the time I’m done with the pitchers, those batters' Strikeouts numbers should be no higher than the upper 100’s.
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