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It might be strange to mention this in a Strat-o-matic fourm, but Diamond Mind baseball conducted a simulation to decide the true "World Champion of Baseball", by pitting the Chicago White Sox against the Japanese Champion Chiba Lotte Marines with the Sox winning in Five Games.

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Interesting since Chiba Lotte manager, former major league player and skipper Bobby Valentine, challenged the Sox to an exhibition series to settle this dispute after his Marines made a mockery of the Nippon League.

I read about this somewhere else on the 'net. To me, this is an example of crappy research by Diamond Mind. There are a lot of fielding stats such as OF arms and range that are averaged out for the Japanese team.

On the other hand, Strat-O-Matic reads freakin' box scores and articles to re-create some of their old timers leagues so that they CAN get close to accurate ratings for these subjective ratings.

This exercise tells me Diamond Mind either doesn't know how, or doesn't WANT to know how to do this. What a waste of time that WS replay was by them, and a great example of why they offer an inferior product IMO.