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WillyD
Take like 10% of his doubles and about a third of his triples and add it to his HR total and see what you get. He would be over 40 every year probably and some 50's mixed in. But he may have struckout like 30 times instead of 20 cause he would have been gunnin for left-center!
June 10, 2011 at 07:40PM View BBCode
Originally posted by tm4559
think what it might have been with a reasonable power alley to shoot at it left center?
(maybe no different. who knows? new yankee stadium like old yankee stadium though. left handed hitters pardise. the red sox left handers sure like it. tee hee.)
Take like 10% of his doubles and about a third of his triples and add it to his HR total and see what you get. He would be over 40 every year probably and some 50's mixed in. But he may have struckout like 30 times instead of 20 cause he would have been gunnin for left-center!
tm4559
all i know is, there are very few of them now that can make it through a season without a trip to the old Dee-EL.
June 10, 2011 at 07:47PM View BBCode
Originally posted by WillyD
I'm open minded about it, but with a few exceptions pitcher performance suffered while hitters flourished. There are many other factors such as smaller parks, expansion, the emphasis on power hitters, etc. The only thing that improved for pitchers was strikeouts. Was it sterods or the bullpen specialization or the fact everyone was trying to jack every pitch they saw out of the yard?
all i know is, there are very few of them now that can make it through a season without a trip to the old Dee-EL.
WillyD
June 10, 2011 at 08:31PM View BBCode
Very true. I think they should shutdown MLB for a year and give every pitcher Tommy John surgery. I mean, they're all going to eventually anyways.
Pologrounds
First let me say that I have always been a big roponent of the position that SD should NOT strive to be like baseball. Instead, it should strive to be a fun baseball simulation. So, I am not going to go into too much comparison between SD statistics and MLB statistics, because frankly, it doesn't matter. However, I am enjoying this game a lot less than I used to, and the following is my reasoning why.
A little back ground. I have been playing SD for 8 years. All of them with only one private league team (9 games per day). So my experience is limited, but long. In all that time, my favorite player ever is this guy:
http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2248339
Prototypical leadoff guy. On base and base stealing. He is still the all time league leader in walks. He had a career .377 OBP and yes, he usually walked more than he struck out once he got experience. He played exactly to his ratings.
SD used to have guys like this, but not anymore. It seems to me that at some point, SD had to make a decision between (1) more mediocrity, or (2) more randomness. My belief is that they chose more randomness and I think that was a mistake.
More medicority would, I admit, mean less improvements (which are initially less fun) and less studs (also less fun). However, in the long run, it would make for a much better game. The problem with more randomness is that you cannot count on anything. These days, I can't count on a A+ power guy hitting more than 24 homeruns in a season for a career and I can't count on a contact guy making contact and not striking out. When you cannot rely on anyting we know about the players, then we are not really playing a game at all. We are just watching games and hoping for the best. That is a lot less fun in my opinion.
I think the game needs to change so that there is more mediocrity and less randomness. An A+ rating at anything must be much more elite. Only 1-2 guys on a team should have elite A+ power. No more of this entire lineups with A+ power as I often see in our league. No more of every catcher in the league having an A- to A+ arm.
In turn, when you do get lucky enough to own a guy with an A+ rating at something, you ought to be able to count on that guy doing that one thing pretty freaking well. You ought to be able to count on an A+ power guy hiting homeruns. This, I believe is what Paul was referring to. A+ contact guys are too common and the performance is too random. Like A+ power guys, they need to be elite. And, when you get an A+ contact guy, you should be able to count on him not striking out too often.
June 11, 2011 at 12:59AM View BBCode
I have been playing this game for about 8 years now and rarely post on these boards, but this one got my attention. I am with Paul on this and I am going to try to phrase his position a little differently to see if it make sense.First let me say that I have always been a big roponent of the position that SD should NOT strive to be like baseball. Instead, it should strive to be a fun baseball simulation. So, I am not going to go into too much comparison between SD statistics and MLB statistics, because frankly, it doesn't matter. However, I am enjoying this game a lot less than I used to, and the following is my reasoning why.
A little back ground. I have been playing SD for 8 years. All of them with only one private league team (9 games per day). So my experience is limited, but long. In all that time, my favorite player ever is this guy:
http://www.simdynasty.com/player.jsp?id=2248339
Prototypical leadoff guy. On base and base stealing. He is still the all time league leader in walks. He had a career .377 OBP and yes, he usually walked more than he struck out once he got experience. He played exactly to his ratings.
SD used to have guys like this, but not anymore. It seems to me that at some point, SD had to make a decision between (1) more mediocrity, or (2) more randomness. My belief is that they chose more randomness and I think that was a mistake.
More medicority would, I admit, mean less improvements (which are initially less fun) and less studs (also less fun). However, in the long run, it would make for a much better game. The problem with more randomness is that you cannot count on anything. These days, I can't count on a A+ power guy hitting more than 24 homeruns in a season for a career and I can't count on a contact guy making contact and not striking out. When you cannot rely on anyting we know about the players, then we are not really playing a game at all. We are just watching games and hoping for the best. That is a lot less fun in my opinion.
I think the game needs to change so that there is more mediocrity and less randomness. An A+ rating at anything must be much more elite. Only 1-2 guys on a team should have elite A+ power. No more of this entire lineups with A+ power as I often see in our league. No more of every catcher in the league having an A- to A+ arm.
In turn, when you do get lucky enough to own a guy with an A+ rating at something, you ought to be able to count on that guy doing that one thing pretty freaking well. You ought to be able to count on an A+ power guy hiting homeruns. This, I believe is what Paul was referring to. A+ contact guys are too common and the performance is too random. Like A+ power guys, they need to be elite. And, when you get an A+ contact guy, you should be able to count on him not striking out too often.
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