Underperformance

I am in the midst of an awful season of performance from Ted Williams (‘49 season card)—batting average about 100 points off, OBP off 150, and slugging off about 250. Part of it is due to playing in a pitcher’s park, but still has been a head scratcher. Have tried to be patient, but over 120 games in now, so don’t think any kind of historic surge is coming.

Made me curios us about some the biggest seasons of underachievement in Strat-O-Matic 365 lore?

For Teddy to be hitting 100 points below his batting average I am going to guess you are playing a cap between $100 and $200 million....if so, your results are pretty typical.

SOM does a pretty good job of replicating Walks and HRs for hitters at most caps. HOWEVER, batting averages are usually sub par for ALL hitter in caps above $80. If you want to see impressive batting averages, play Fulton County Stadium at caps $80 million and below....otherwise, accept it as just the way things are for batting average.

80m cap, so all the more curious. Just can’t figure out if it’s something I’m doing (or not doing).

The pitching park is probably accounting for half of the batting average reduction and then bad luck for the other half.

Post a link to the league standings. We need more information to be of any help

Sure--here it is:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1596904

A very flawed team overall. On Williams, ballpark has resulted in 34 additional outs, and a 65% failure rate on ballpark effect. Definitely worse at home, but his road splits still are not very good relative to his card. In the division, I do also have to deal with Griffith Stadium, but then also have favorable Fenway, and somewhat neutral Bank One.

I think ballpark in bad luck are the drivers, but want to be sure I am not missing something else. Put his numbers in Diamond Dope, and he should be producing a lot more.

Well, for one thing, Ted has faced a lot more lefties than righties, with a card that leans 4R, and doesn't have that many hits vs lefties to begin with. Add in that his home park is killing him, and that explains most of it. I would also like to see how much of your league leans towards pitching vs hitting.

Splits pretty bad against both (lefty/right tilt was something that came to mind early on)

VS Lefites .244/.363/.351
vs Righties .235/.323/..419

I guess it's probably not just any one thing, but a combo of multiple things with bad luck mixed in. I am in a weak division, and suddenly within two games, so could really use him getting going! At least if nothing else get on base (along with Boggs) in front of Foxx.