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Players

The intent is to keep players as close as possible to their actual usage as during the 1930 season (plate appearances, game played, innings pitched, complete games). Trades will occur as they did during the season, as will debuts and final appearances. Although injuries are reflected in the actual lineups, I try to document what I find out along the way. Actually, replicating the actual lineups used solves most of the player usage issues, especially for multi-positional players.

Players

I recently purchased a new copy of the 1930 Season Disk. It happens to match identically the 1930 Season Disk I purchased ~25 years ago, so that was a bit of a waste. They both come with 400 "carded" players, which means there are 93 un-carded players.

Once installed the usual activities are required - set-up a season, get the players on the right team for the beginning of the year, put players on the farm as appropriate, and begin play. Actually, there are several other steps that will be discussed yet.

Non-Carded Players (XC's)

BBW 5.75 doesn't really have a "create a player" option, but there is a workaround:
  • Go to any other season and Transfer a player to your season
  • You can Edit an existing player, so find the player you transferred, change the name and the raw stats, fill in the APBA ratings and a hitting card, and you have a complete XC
  • As far as APBA rating, I assigned fielding three per position
  • Speed: 24 and younger got a 17, 25-30 got a 9, 31-35 got a 6, 36 and older got a 1. Catchers got knocked down one step
  • Swing Adjustment: BB - SA0, RH - SA3, LH - SA-5
  • Final pitching grades will get calculated and added later
  • I created sufficiently functional hitting cards at Steve's APBA Card Computer (http://www.compuducksports.com/cardcomp/). The most important part of this to me was ensuring I had the correct spread of rare play and error numbers included
  • Once the data is all entered Save your changes and you have a new card
  • For all ratings, managerial discretion may be used (Buck Crouse)
Card Adjustments

Once I started poking around the player's disk I saw several things I wanted to update:
  • Missing stats: Player age, complete games, innings are rounded off, double play's, SB/CS for catchers and pitchers, passed balls. Even now some starts are still unknown - some CS numbers, IBB's
  • Fielding stats for players that played at multiple positions are summed under the primary position played. This was broken out per position
  • I also noticed that some defensive stats had been changed since the disk was originally created, at least when compared to Baseball-Reference.com numbers. In these cases, I went the BBR numbers. I also found a couple of obvious typo's - I updated along with the BBR numbers as well. Please note that the missing stats referenced over these past three bullets in no way affect gameplay. It is just nice to be able to fill in some holes so that when you are viewing player stats in the game you can see a more complete picture.
  • As a bugaboo of mine, I changed the last names from upper case to lower case. I left the Hall-of-Fame players in upper case
  • Pitcher grades were modified
  • Steal Allowance Letters, Injuries, and Durations were adjusted also

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