Homerun numbers

[rowech]

These seem to be too high. I started a league in 1969 and have had several players hit 60+ homeruns. The right guys are hitting them but it just seems to be too high. Thought I would throw this out. Any corrections that can be made?

[ganguy]

The first place I would experiment with is the Advanced Simulation Engine Options in Association Settings. Try moving the home run slider down. Not sure how much, you may have to play with it a little.

After that, the XML file is probably the place to go. I've been digging into it, but still feeling my way around.

Ron

[henry296]

The other option is to check your stadiums.  If the 1970s players are playing in today's smaller stadiums they might hit some more home runs.  The generic team stadiums are a little smaller and have short distances down the line.

[rowech]

That would be interesting to look at too.

[galaril]

Yeah I just played ran a sim form 1900 to 1973 and the homeruns were..................well ridiculous and to be honest not sure what to think. I had 25 guys with over 100 homeruns and tons of guys with over 250 rbi's! 20 Players with over 400 avgs? So what gives I am pretty disapppointed at this momnet I just bought this version after being disappointed by the sign and relase stuff with OOTP 2007 but at least the stats were great as you go through each era. If it was anyone but Shaun I would probably want a refund. Does PS 07 not adjust for the differnt eras? I can undertsand the ballpark factors but is there that much effect it should maybe be reevaluated becuz no matter what park I guy played is here going to hit 130 HRs! Do most people play with average ballparks set at the beginning or do most people not run a sim for a while to get history?

[puresimmer]

ORIGINAL: galaril

Yeah I just played ran a sim form 1900 to 1973 and the homeruns were..................well ridiculous and to be honest not sure what to think. I had 25 guys with over 100 homeruns and tons of guys with over 250 rbi's! 20 Players with over 400 avgs? So what gives I am pretty disapppointed at this momnet I just bought this version after being disappointed by the sign and relase stuff with OOTP 2007 but at least the stats were great as you go through each era. If it was anyone but Shaun I would probably want a refund. Does PS 07 not adjust for the differnt eras? I can undertsand the ballpark factors but is there that much effect it should maybe be reevaluated becuz no matter what park I guy played is here going to hit 130 HRs! Do most people play with average ballparks set at the beginning or do most people not run a sim for a while to get history?

I have never seen this. I will start an association and run a test overnight.

Just to rule out any anomalies I am going to us ethe "Use Avg Park for all games" option.

[puresimmer]

And yes, the game absolutely adjusts for the time period.

[KG Erwin]

Guys, for the record, my draft association uses historical parks, and if anything, the HR totals are actually BELOW historical averages. This is with using real players and the default XML.

Rowech didn't specify if he was using real or fictional players.

I apologize if I'm making such heavy weather of my association, but so far I've seen no anomalies that raise any red flags. To this point, the results have all seemed believable.

[33sherman]

I've been running a real-player association from 1903 and at 1952 have had no anomalies. Like KG mentioned, if anything the home run totals have been a little low, as well as BA (the single-season record for BA is .374). Amazingly, the single-season record for HR's is 60 by Babe Ruth in 1927.

[KG Erwin]

ORIGINAL: 33sherman

I've been running a real-player association from 1903 and at 1952 have had no anomalies. Like KG mentioned, if anything the home run totals have been a little low, as well as BA (the single-season record for BA is .374). Amazingly, the single-season record for HR's is 60 by Babe Ruth in 1927.

You're telling me that your league actually had the Babe matching his real-life record? Are you kidding?

[galaril]

ORIGINAL: puresimmer

ORIGINAL: galaril

Yeah I just played ran a sim form 1900 to 1973 and the homeruns were..................well ridiculous and to be honest not sure what to think. I had 25 guys with over 100 homeruns and tons of guys with over 250 rbi's! 20 Players with over 400 avgs? So what gives I am pretty disapppointed at this momnet I just bought this version after being disappointed by the sign and relase stuff with OOTP 2007 but at least the stats were great as you go through each era. If it was anyone but Shaun I would probably want a refund. Does PS 07 not adjust for the differnt eras? I can undertsand the ballpark factors but is there that much effect it should maybe be reevaluated becuz no matter what park I guy played is here going to hit 130 HRs! Do most people play with average ballparks set at the beginning or do most people not run a sim for a while to get history?

I have never seen this. I will start an association and run a test overnight.

Just to rule out any anomalies I am going to us ethe "Use Avg Park for all games" option.

If you want I can send you the file. I didn't do anything different. But one thing I added some addins after I ran the association 74 year history.

[galaril]

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Home Runs - Single Season Leaders [/align][align=center]




Rank
Player
Year
Value

1
Eddie Mathews
1954
134

2
Eddie Mathews
1953
133

3
Eddie Mathews
1960
126

4
Babe Ruth
1923
122

5
Eddie Mathews
1957
121

 
Eddie Mathews
1955
121

 
Orlando Cepeda
1962
121

6
Eddie Mathews
1961
120

 
Mickey Mantle
1958
120

 
Wally Berger
1930
120

7
Larry Doby
1954
119

8
Eddie Mathews
1958
118

 
Frank Robinson
1959
118

9
Tommy Holmes
1945
117

 
Eddie Mathews
1951
117

10
Tony Conigliaro
1968
116

11
Mickey Mantle
1956
115

 
Wally Berger
1938
115

 
Wally Berger
1936
115

12
Eddie Mathews
1956
114

 
Wally Berger
1935
114

13
Mickey Mantle
1960
113

 
Frank Robinson
1960
113

14
Frank Robinson
1961
112

 
Wally Berger
1937
112

15
Frank Robinson
1964
111

 
Richie Hebner
1972
111

16
Mickey Mantle
1955
110

 
Leon Wagner
1961
110

17
Eddie Mathews
1959
109

 
Dale Alexander
1929
109

18
Eddie Mathews
1952
108

 
Wally Berger
1931
108

19
Mickey Mantle
1954
106

 
Frank Robinson
1957
106

 
Wally Berger
1934
106

20
Mickey Mantle
1953
105

 
Eddie Mathews
1962
105

 
Willie Kirkland
1961
105

 
Wally Berger
1929
105

21
Mickey Mantle
1959
104

 
Orlando Cepeda
1961
104

 
Tony Conigliaro
1967
104

 
Leon Wagner
1960
104

22
Mickey Mantle
1957
103

 
Willie Kirkland
1962
103

 
Frank Robinson
1962
103

 
Orlando Cepeda
1963
103

 
Heinie Manush
1926
103

23
Max West
1938
101

 
Max West
1947
101

 
Willie Horton
1965
101

 
Jimmie Foxx
1936
101

24
Vince Dimaggio
1940
100

 
Willie Kirkland
1963
100

 
Babe Ruth
1924
100

 
Wally Berger
1932
100

 
Dale Alexander
1930
100

25
Bill White
1957
99

 
Frank Robinson
1954
99

 
Roy Johnson
1933
99

26
Larry Doby
1955
98

 
Earl Torgeson
1947
98

 
Tommy Holmes
1946
98

 
Buck Freeman
1901
98

 
Babe Ruth
1920
98

 
Pinky Whitney
1938
98

27
Vince Dimaggio
1941
97

 
Orlando Cepeda
1959
97

 
Frank Robinson
1967
97

 
Frank Robinson
1965
97

 
Bobby Murcer
1967
97

 
Herman Long
1900
97

28
Max West
1946
96

 
Dale Alexander
1932
96

 
Wally Berger
1933
96

 
Jimmy Welsh
1925
96

29
Frank Robinson
1955
95

30
Pat Seerey
1951
94

 
Hank Steinbacher
1939
94

 
Bill White
1955
94

 
Frank Robinson
1970
94

 
Ray Powell
1919
94

 
Heinie Manush
1928
94

31
Max West
1939
93

 
Joe Connolly
1913
93

32
George Burns
1920
92

 
Babe Ruth
1925
92

 
Heinie Manush
1930
92

 
Jimmy Welsh
1928
92

33
Max West
1945
91

 
Johnny Bates
1907
91

 
Buck Freeman
1902
91

 
Jack Rothrock
1931
91

34
Tommy Holmes
1950
90

 
Mickey Mantle
1951
90

 
Orlando Cepeda
1960
90

 
Frank Robinson
1956
90

 
Frank Robinson
1966
90

 
Chick Stahl
1902
90

 
Billy Hamilton
1901
90

 
Jimmie Foxx
1938
90[/align]

[galaril]

The number under the player's name is the year and the numbe runder it is the number of homeruns. I will run this again and see what comes up but I am wondering if the last CE or so might of screwed something up? This is without doing any chnage to the stadiums in game.

[33sherman]

ORIGINAL: KG Erwin

ORIGINAL: 33sherman

I've been running a real-player association from 1903 and at 1952 have had no anomalies. Like KG mentioned, if anything the home run totals have been a little low, as well as BA (the single-season record for BA is .374). Amazingly, the single-season record for HR's is 60 by Babe Ruth in 1927.

You're telling me that your league actually had the Babe matching his real-life record? Are you kidding?

No, I'm not kidding. Still, Ruth's overall numbers were low--after '27 he was never able to muster more than 200-300 ABs due to endurance so his career HR total was less than 500. I've run a couple associations (spanning several Puresim builds) and I find that Ruth tends to have a problem staying fresh enough to hit all those home runs.

The one thing that hasn't happened in this particular association is total dominance by Ted Williams, which happened in every previous association. At this point (1952) the two most dominant players in the history of the association have been Mel Ott and Joe Dimaggio.

[Fouts]

I had a problem like this once with a couple teams.  Then I looked at the offending teams stadiums and the distances to the fence were all out of whack.  Everytime I start a new league I make it a rule to check all the stadiums or import real stadiums.

[galaril]

ORIGINAL: Fouts

I had a problem like this once with a couple teams.  Then I looked at the offending teams stadiums and the distances to the fence were all out of whack.  Everytime I start a new league I make it a rule to check all the stadiums or import real stadiums.

How are stadiums handle in the game? Are they randomly generated or is there a set number of genric ones that the computer uses? Also, I have seen stadium photos are there also stadium dimensions available as well?

[KG Erwin]

There's several historic parks (.prk files) that come with the game, but there's many prk files & pics that can be found here:

http://web.mac.com/sixwilsons/iWeb/Pure ... /Main.html

As a matter of fact, that's where I picked up the beautiful "painted parks" that I use in my Golden Age association.

Believe me, park dimensions (AND the weather) have a profound effect on HR numbers.

[ezpkns34]

i agree kg, i just started a new league and my first home game saw the 2 teams combine for 22 runs and about 9 hrs, it was insane and it was due mostly to the wind cause after nearly every hr it said the wind really carried that one

[KG Erwin]

Something else: I noticed a stat called "park factor". What does this actually mean? Forbes Field has a PF of 89. Yeah, OK, so what does this tell me? It isn't exactly a hitter-friendly park as far as hitting HRs is concerned, but with deep outfields there's still the potential for a lot of extra-base hits.

Lemme compile the PFs for all of my parks and see what we come up with.

Ok, here's the park list:

1. Polo Grounds (New York) 126
2. Municipal Stadium (Cleveland) 114
3. Fenway Park (Boston) 113
4. Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) 103
5. Sportsmans Park (St. Louis) 102
6. Shibe Park (Philadelphia) 101
7. Comiskey Park (Chicago) 98
Briggs Stadium (Detroit)
Yankee Stadium (New York)
Wrigley Field (Chicago)
Crosley Field (Cincinnati)
8. Braves Field (Boston) 94
9. Forbes Field (Pittsburgh) 89

So, the higher the number, the more "hitter-friendly" the field is. Interesting. Apart from the overall team talent levels, the collective ERAs and HR totals seem to bear this out. For example, my Pirates have a team ERA of 2.71, which leads the association. The Indians, on the other hand, have a team ERA of 4.23. The Tribe has hit 57 HR, whereas my Bucs have hit just 23 so far in the 1947 season.

On the individual level, playing at Forbes certainly helped Warren Spahn win the NL Cy Young Award in 1946, and has contributed to his 11-1, 1.83 record so far in 1947.

The implications are obvious. You tailor your team to your environment. Yeah, common-knowledge, but having this info helps when drafting.

You can obtain this number by going to the Standings Page and clicking "expanded team results".

[demikarr]

I have found 1 park in my association (1901 - 1953) that just has insane numbers if any team uses it. I noticed it when a AI team started having 1000+ runs in a season. I set up my team in J.P. Sullivan Yards and here is what happened.

Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI OBP SLG AVG
Babe Ruth 645 159 252 33 22 89 215 449 924 391
Amos Strunk 578 149 209 15 14 72 132 411 810 362