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dawgfan

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too much offense...?

March 01, 2002 at 02:45AM View formatted

Obviously it's a bit early in the season to draw any hard conclusions, but glancing at all the team ERA's in the Connie Mack League leads me to believe that the game is tilted a little too much in the hitter's favor.

My math is a bit rough, but it looks like the league average ERA is right around 6.01. Here's the current standings:

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Cincinnati 3.33
Pittsburgh 4.08
Boston 4.30
Brooklyn 5.19
New York Highlanders 5.37
New York Don Rickles 5.40
St.Louis 5.45
Milwaukee 6.00
Detroit 6.06
Kansas City 6.33
Chicago Cubs 6.34
Washington 6.85
Baltimore 7.24
Cleveland 8.14
Chicago Sox 9.94[/code]

Just my opinion, but I'd rather see the league average somewhere closer to 4.50 or so. Any thoughts?

tysonlowery

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March 01, 2002 at 02:58AM View BBCode

Its a fairly delicate balance, lets see how the rest of the season works out first before drawing too many conclusions. We ran some hyper leagues during beta testing, and there was actually too much pitching!

I just ran a query, and the average era for all leagues is around 6.25, which is definitely high. I may have made too many adjustments after the last beta season.

If all the leagues end up having the same problem, I can raise the mound a bit for the next season, or start calling the high strike.

dawgfan

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March 01, 2002 at 03:13AM View BBCode

Fair enough.

I'm totally hooked on the game BTW, hope you don't view any of this as negative :)

I'm looking forward to Multi-season mode.

tysonlowery

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March 01, 2002 at 03:33AM View BBCode

...hope you don't view any of this as negative :)

No, not at all! Keep the comments coming, they are what helps make the game better.

If I come off a little annoyed in some of these posts, its because I'm frustrated with myself for not getting it right the first time - which usually means less time to get to some of the cool enhancement ideas that we have come up with.

Bob

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It does look like there's too much offense

March 01, 2002 at 01:09PM View BBCode

I was thinking the same thing. Tyson, did you modify the player creation logic? It seems to me that the number of hitters with high ratings has gone up. The fact that there are just many more excellent hitters is probably contributing more to the increase in runs than any changes to in-game logic.

tysonlowery

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March 01, 2002 at 02:31PM View BBCode

I remember modifying the player creation logic, as well as some other game attributes. I'll keep an eye on it and make adjustments for next season if necessary.

tysonlowery

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March 03, 2002 at 07:23PM View BBCode

I haven't touched a thing, but the league averages has dropped to 5.333.

Maybe the pitchers were just getting warmed up.

Bob

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March 04, 2002 at 12:50PM View BBCode

After looking at the stats more closely, I'm convince there is too much offense. In 18 of my 21 games, the winning team has scored 7 runs or more. 11 times in those 21 games a team has scored in double digits. Time to start calling the high strike.

tysonlowery

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March 04, 2002 at 02:29PM View BBCode

There may be a tad too much offense, I agree. I will probably make a few adjustments after the season. I'd like to get an idea about what exactly is causing the problem, too many singles, doubles, triples, homeruns, or combination of them all.

The average era is about 5.17 right now. The ERAs for each league (in order from League Forum) are:
5.98
4.31
5.96
4.68
6.00
5.53
5.40
5.05
4.39
3.00

I'd like to see the average around 4.50, but that seems to be the lowest of the group. Keep in mind that the last league just started today.