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There are some of the stats in the ratings guides that I don't fully understand.

What are all the numbers based on? Are they "Per 100 AB"? Or something like that?

Is TB total bases?

What is CL?

Intuitively it seems to me that OB should be the sum of BB and HIT, but it is greater than that ... does it include HBP and reaching on error maybe?

I know I'm probably a moron for playing in these leagues so long and not understanding some of this. I welcome an education.

Thanks.

If you got the ratings guide, there is a Readme document in the download folder for the ratings, which explains some of this.

For example, on the hitter section:

Bb = Walk chances
HIT = Hit chances
OB = On-base chances (walks+hits+HBP)
TB = Total Bases (from hits only)

Now, it is important to note that this is CHANCES. It isn't an "out of 100 AB" type of thing. It is "out of 108 random dice rolls." Where do I get 108? Each plate appearance consists of 3 6-sided dice rolled to determine the outcome. A single die determines the column 1-2-3-4-5-6, where 1-2-3 are the hitter card and 4-5-6 are the pitcher card. The other 2 die are added together to get a result from 2 to 12, where 7 is most frequent (occurring 6 times) and 2 and 12 are least frequent (only once each). The total number of CHANCES per CARD is 108. This reflects all 36 of the possible outcomes per column and 3 columns per card. (36 x 3 = 108)

So, a player with 18 BB chances and 24 hit chances and 2 HBP chances would have total OB chances of 44. 44/108 is 40.74%, which seems really good; however, you are also rolling on the pitcher card 50% of the time, so that player would have a chance of reaching base 20.37% of the time FROM HIS OWN CARD. Obviously, you could reach base off the pitcher's card too.

Total Bases would roughly help you calculate SLG. It is the total bases FROM HITS ONLY. So a player with 24 hit chances and 30 total bases is mostly hitting singles. A player with 24 hit chances and 48 total bases is averaging 2 bases per hit. Now, that could be 12 singles and 12 triples (unlikely), or it could be 12 singles, 6 doubles, and 6 HR's (more likely).

The ratings system tells us how many HR chances there are and how many BallPark HR chances there are. Normal is not 10 for BP chances. Normal is an 8. So if you are in a ballpark that is an 8-8-8-8, then you can roughly expect "normal" HR results. Higher than that will increase HR's and lower than that will deflate HR's.

Sorry if that wasn't on point ... But that's the ratings guide breakdown as I understand it.

CL = Clutch

With 2 outs and a runner on base, "clutch" is activated. The CL rating is the number of chances (increased is good, decreased is bad) that CHANGE outcome based on that situation.

So, a player may have a -6 clutch. In that case, 6 singles are taken away and turned into lineouts in a clutch situation (think, maybe a 2-7 roll which is normally a SINGLE** for the batter, but in the clutch becomes a lineout to end the rally).

A player with POSITIVE clutch turns line drive outs into SINGLE** in clutch situations. So, a plus 6 might have a 3-5 and a 3-11 turned into hits.

3-5 has 4 CHANCES to occur. 3-11 is 2 CHANCES. So that's the same number of chances, 6 of them, as a 2-7 which is 6 chances on its own.

Thanks, Hamilton! That is really helpful. I never played this game prior to playing online. I didn’t know very much of this at all.

Thank you for taking time to help. With a football team worth of children in your home, i know you don’t have a lot of spare time.

Appreciate it!

SOM is my hobby and outlet. I spend way more time on this than I probably should, but it's a nice break from the day to day.

I'm in an online face to face league. We play with the cards and dice, using discord for video conferencing during game play. Currently on the 1958 season, we did 1955 first and probably 1961 will be next.

As much fun as online is, playing the games and making lineup moves in real time and then reading the rolls and results directly is so much more!

TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT:

DcIrish Trades:

Nolan Schanuel

TO KLX FOR

2025 3rd Round Prospect Pick

Keith to confirm!

TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT:

DcIrish Trades:

Nolan Schanuel

TO KLX FOR

2025 3rd Round Prospect Pick

Keith to confirm!

Confirmed

Bob,

I’ll be changing stadiums. Thanks!

Hi Bob,

I think on the 2025 Drafts tab, the 5th Rd FA picks for Keith and me are reversed. I think Keith is keeping his own 5th round pick (1st pick of the round), and he traded me back my own 5th round pick (5th pick of the round).

Thanks, Bob.

Fixed. Thanks Sean.

Bob,

I’ll be changing stadiums. Thanks!

Got it.