Not a fan of APBA, but their 'fast rating' seems more than appropriate, based on extra base hits (4 triples) &, of course, his stolen base/cs numbers.
How else to gauge/measure players from the past per replay sims? Stolen base numbers can be attributed to the strategies of the times, but still...stealing a base does require some speed.
A fan of Bill James; but acknowledge his desire to dig deep (too deep?) to create a formula for everything. :)
Of course, baseball is one of those rare sports that can lend itself to doing so; making it one the 'easiest' sports to sim with a reasonable amount of accuracy. imho
Considering that I'm pretty sure we never saw that formula once he got a publisher a few years later, I think he realized its inadequacy soon after that. But his lineup error is disconcerting; he did need to look at every box score to analyze the pitching if nothing else. And Russell did bat second at least as often as North did in the postseason, so I doubt that he was extrapolating from that.
Not a fan of APBA, but their 'fast rating' seems more than appropriate, based on extra base hits (4 triples) &, of course, his stolen base/cs numbers.
How else to gauge/measure players from the past per replay sims? Stolen base numbers can be attributed to the strategies of the times, but still...stealing a base does require some speed.
A fan of Bill James; but acknowledge his desire to dig deep (too deep?) to create a formula for everything. :)
Of course, baseball is one of those rare sports that can lend itself to doing so; making it one the 'easiest' sports to sim with a reasonable amount of accuracy. imho
Considering that I'm pretty sure we never saw that formula once he got a publisher a few years later, I think he realized its inadequacy soon after that. But his lineup error is disconcerting; he did need to look at every box score to analyze the pitching if nothing else. And Russell did bat second at least as often as North did in the postseason, so I doubt that he was extrapolating from that.