by bark123 » Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:42 pm
That makes no sense whatsoever.
So, you're saying that Stratomatic takes a look at Palmer's 1972 raw numbers and says "yeah, but he pitched against weak-hitting teams, so let's throw in some doubles and HRs on his card." If that was the case, and you replayed the 1972 season, Palmer WOULD NOT PERFORM in stratomatic as he did in real life. Which defeats Stratomatic's whole purpose.
You're right, 50 per cent of results are taken from hitting cards. So, if you take a 72 Palmer, for example, and pitch him against a schedule of better hitters than he actually pitched against in real lfe, his stats in a stratomatic replay wouldn't be as impressive. There's no need for Stratomatic to tinker with his card, adjusting it for "context."
By your reasoning, stratomatic would look at the weak-hitting 72 Indians and say "yeah, but they hit against the tough Oriole pitching staff, so let's give their hitters a few extra doubles on their cards."
There's context...defence and ball park...but that's it. The numbers will take care of themselves, depending on what situation you put the players in.