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Taking baseball sims way too seriously.

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Let's take a deep dive into the math behind the Strat-O-Matic basic baseball game: https://t.co/Ku7bfawxN9

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Rick Camp's only career home run. July 4, 1985, Mets at Braves.

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Don Gullett hits his first — and only — major league home run in the 1975 NLCS.

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BIll Buckner's final home run - April 25, 1990

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Luis Tiant's changeup - 1975 World Series game 1

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Joe Morgan gets it done in the 1977 All Star Game.

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Nolan Ryan's 5th No Hitter

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Nolan Ryan completes his first no hitter in 1973.

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Sadaharu Oh's 756th home run.

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Sadaharu Oh's 715th home run

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Did you know that Sadaharu Oh hit 25 home runs in 338 at bats against major league pitching in exhibitions?

This included 2 home runs in 3 at bats in a single game against the San Francisco Giants in 1970.

It might be time to think again about how he might have fared in MLB.

Data from https://t.co/AFYarD9n2g

@notgaetti

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Thanks! I've been messing around with the settings, actually, and haven't found anything that I really like quite yet. I've read that you can make the free agency experience better by turning on revenue sharing and cranking it up to something like 50% to try to stop certain teams from becoming extremely rich. I've also fiddled around a little bit with having the development engine on as well as the 5 year recalc.

It sort of depends on how you hope to see things work out. The development engine is nice because things can work out differently than in real life, whereas recalc will take players and move them back towards what they actually did. I think I'm just going to use the development engine for my next project to see what happens.

I wish the settings were better described in the forums...

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Sadaharu Oh hits his 714th home run - 1976

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Jody Davis home run in 1984

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Willie McGee's baserunning mistake - 1987 NLCS Game 7

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Derek Jeter shows his range at age 37.

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Derek Jeter's phantom tag.

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Was this a good call?

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Absolutely incredible play by Ozzie Smith.

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Check out this incredible play by Ozzie Smith!