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Baseball Mogul: Identifying "Real" Players

7/20/2019

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"Chris V." recently wrote the following review for Baseball Mogul 2019:

My biggest complaint is the historical rosters having players you’ve never heard of having all these high ratings. For example, I just started a 1989 season for the Dodgers and there is a catcher named Homar Rojas. His ratings in commish mode are as follows: contact 77, power 81, gap power 90, eye 69, speed 67, arm 89, range 77, fielding 66, bunting 80, health 83. There are many more examples like that. It almost feels like the programmers are sneaking their names in here and making themselves really good. Make them save that for their own create a player game.

That ruins the game for me so for that, I give 2 stars.

My response:

Chris,

Thanks for the detailed review. Homar Rojas was a real prospect with the Dodgers, making it to Triple-A but never reaching the majors.

'80' is the major league average, so a player that is rated as 72/77 (like Rojas) is probably a borderline major leaguer. However, I do agree that his ratings may be higher than his minor league record warrants, so I'll take another look at the algorithm that projects major league performance from minor league stats.

For the record, I didn't sneak any players into the game with my name and "really good ratings". Starting with Baseball Mogul 2019, all players in any new game should be real historical players. If you want to check if a player is real or fictional, click on their name in the Scouting Report. If the player is real, this will take you to their page at Baseball-Reference.com.

Also, you can click 'Download Player Photos' in Advanced Options (on the Tools Menu). After doing this, the Scouting Report for many historical players will include their real-life photo.

Clay
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Baseball Mogul: Head-to-Head Records

6/24/2019

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Great question! There is a way. Click on the "Head-to-Head" button on the Calendar Page (see screen shot to the right).

This will open up an HTML file with every team's head-to-head record against every other team in the current season (click the image below for an example).
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Baseball Mogul 18 Preview: Historical Sims

3/29/2018

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Previous versions of Baseball Mogul had a problem with extreme outliers. Babe Ruth is the best example. Baseball Mogul’s rating system assumes that player performance almost always falls within about 4 standard deviations of the league average: this should cover 99.994% of all players.
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Unfortunately, Babe Ruth hit home runs at a rate that was 4-6 standard deviations above the rest of the league. In a simulation that produces a realistic distribution of outcomes, the chance of a result that is 6 deviations above average is about 1 in a billion (1,013,594,692 to be exact).

Babe Ruth might able to hit 60 homers in 1987, when the league average was quite high, but he’ll never hit 60 homers in 1921 – even though this is what he did in real life. This means that if you simmed 1927 in Baseball Mogul 2017, Babe Ruth only hit 20-30 home runs.

Baseball Mogul 2018 fixes this. 
It’s complicated, but I re-wrote the rating calculation code to compress the distribution of player ratings in seasons when statistical output (e.g. home runs) is below the historical average. Then I adjusted the sim to correctly handle these new values.
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Actual 1927 AL Home Run Leaders
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1927 Simmed in Baseball Mogul 2017
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1927 Simmed in Baseball Mogul 2018
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Changing Window Size in Baseball Mogul

9/27/2017

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Yes. You probably already know that you can resize the main window as you can with most other apps in Windows, by clicking the minimize and maximize buttons in the upper right, or by grabbing the lower-left corner and dragging it until the window is your desired size.

However, I assume you're asking about the dialog boxes (aka "popup windows") such as the Lineup, Defense, Bullpen, Sortable Stats, etc. To change the size of dialog boxes, go to Options on the Tools Menu and change the setting for "Dialog Box Size":
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