kisner
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I have played 5 seasons of an on-going league using beta 1.1. This was a 16-team league from 1901-1905. Here is some feedback that might be useful:
1. My human team dominated, winning its half of the association 4 of the 5 years. In 1905 the team went 122-39. I suspect the computer teams are not drafting very intelligently, making the game much less challenging than it could be.
2. I did a spot check of player improvement during the off-season, because it seemed like the players that start with low values but high potential were not becoming valuable. Here are some numbers compiled for the first 8 teams alphabetically after 1905:
a) No hitter gained more than 4 points of Contact (I use the 1-100 scale). Many pitchers would show higher gains than this. Is there a bug preventing hitters from surging upward? For the 8 teams (240 hitters or so in all) the following gains were made: +1 x 1, +3 x 4, +2 x 12, +1 x 10. (I did not track negative changes.)
b) No hitter gained more than 3 points of Power. Again, pitchers would show more improvement. This was odd, since I recall one year when my "human controlled" team had a trio of hitters gain 20 points of Power, but the power surge that year was never repeated in any of my other off-seasons. Gains were similar to those for Contact: +3 x 2, +2 x 2, +1 x 16.
c) Eye gains were more common than Contact or Power, but no hitter improved by more than +5. Only three players among the 8 teams checked improved more than +2.
d) Hands and Arm improvements averaged 1 per team. Gains were between +27 and +95, so this was the one area where players made "overnight" dramatic gains.
e) Gains in pitching Stuff and Velocity were very similar to the number and amount of hitters' gains in Contact and Power. There were relatively few gains, and most were +2 or +1. Control gains were like Eye gains -- fairly common, but again they were small.
The cumulative effect is to make Potential relatively unimportant. Johnny Evers, for instance, starts with a 5 Contact and a 100 Potential. After a few years in the game, he is still under-30 for Contact, and at the rate he is improving he'll never hit worth a darn. Players "born" with more mature skills are much more valuable.
Again, since pitchers are making bigger gains with their bats, I assume there is an error in here somewhere.
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