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Looking for a Baseball Simulator

Posted by DNL

979 days ago

Here's what I'm looking to do:

I have a team of players, each from different seasons. I want to combine them and play them against another team, also made up of players from different seasons. But I want to base it off time-insensitive stats like ERA+ and OPS+, because let's face it, 15 homers in 1984 is a lot more than 15 homers in 2000.

Any ideas?

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Davis21wylieMVP

979 days ago

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Hmm, I've never really seen a simulator that went off of just ERA+ and OPS+. The best free sim out there is SBS, which is very cool when you download the team databases and background files. It would be a pain in the ass to do, but you could normalize every player's raw stats to a neutral season for run-scoring, and then run it through SBS. I'm not sure if there's a simpler free sim around, though.

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DNLLegend

979 days ago

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Pretty neat. Do you know if I can enter in normalized data? I know I can find normalized data at Baseball Reference, and I'm happy to enter it in for my 25 man roster, and require that my opponent(s) do the same for theirs.

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Davis21wylieMVP

979 days ago

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Yeah, when you download the game package, it comes with a bunch of team data files. Open one of those with your favorite text editor, and look at the format of the roster; then, use that as a template for entering your normalized data. Be sure to save it as a .DAT file when you're through, and it should work in the game.

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