Overwatch009 wrote:danthechan wrote:They just wouldn't allow a 10 year, 10 homer a year players to hit 55
This all day. Why doesn't anyone else see this? This could be fixed and this game would be much better imho. The whole issue of guys doubling or tripling their career high home runs is absurd. Why won't people admit that!
You didn't address my previous post to you, Over. When you solicit input, you should respond to it. So, exactly
how much more accurate are the simulators you mentioned than SOM's? How much discrepancy do they allow between actual MLB player results and the results they produce? You sing these simulators' praises; you should answer these questions. Some of us may convert. As I mentioned in my previous post, if they
are as rigidly accurate as you claim, then the results are pretty much fixed, and they don't allow for much manager creativity. if they are not, then they are probably no more accurate than SOM's simulator that vexes you, and your complaints are invalid.
Also, SOM can't simply "fix" it's allowing "10 year, 10 homer a year players to hit 55," even though it rarely allows that. First of all, SOM's cards don't just simulate a player's yearly statistical results. They
simulate the player's efficacy of how he played that year when he played; they don't restrain the game to make sure their player cards replicate his results. This both allows for inclusion of players with partial seasons and a creative manager-oriented game. This has been an
integral element of SOM for over 50 years. If this bothers you so much, SOM is really not for you. Also, who cares if a player "doubles or triples" his career results. It happens in MLB all the time, so it's hardly "absurd." Check out second year players like Marcell Ozuna or rookies like Matt Shoemaker for examples.
And, to give SOM's simulator the credit it's due, the freakish results you and Dan posit are a minority, if not an anomaly. If SOM didn't reproduce results adequately reflecting MLB results for the most part, serious baseball fans just wouldn't play it...and they do. It doesn't pretty much fix it's player results--thank God--like the simulators you posit. However, it
does adequately and effectively simulate MLB play.
P.s. Why exactly do you keep playing and posting about SOM when you have disdain for its integral mode of representing players and its produced results you find so inadequate? You seem so satisfied with simulators you claim produce very accurate player results. Why not stick with them when SOM's benefits aren't enough to make you look past what you see as its detractions?