If a player isn doing as well as he did in real life, does the game improve his ratings so hell make up ground in the rest of the season?
Diamond Mind Baseball does not adjust ratings to force the stats to come out right, and that’s for several very good reasons. First, and most important, forcing the stats to come out would create real problems late in the year. Suppose a .280 hitter enters the last 20% of the season batting only .250 (for whatever reason). We’d have to make him a .400 hitter the rest of the way to get his average up to .280. If you knew this (and it wouldn’t take you very long to figure this out), you could start giving extra playing time to the guys who you knew were going to get a late-season boost. And you’d start to sit the guys who were ahead of their pace. This, admittedly, is a bit of an extreme example, because you might hope that the player never deviated as much as 30 points from his real-life average in the first place. But it wouldn’t be realistic if this never happened. There are lots of guys who bat .350 for the first month of the year and gradually fade to .280 by the end of the season.
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