So, I always look at the play by play after each sim and mid-way through this season I noticed that my squad seemed to hit into a lot of double plays. So I decided to look up the real life ML records for a team and individual for a season. And wouldn't you know it, I was well on my way to breaking both and with 10 games still to play, I blew past the records at 201 as a team (record is 174) and 40 for an individual (record is 36). In my world 3 other teams are at 174+ and a couple more may get close. I've adjusted some manager settings hoping to remedy the situation a bit, but my pace didn't change much if at all.

I guess my question is, is this amount comparable to other worlds? An anomaly? I get that there are factors that can cause more GIDP, but that is a crazy high number!

I just looked at one of my worlds and those numbers are kind of in line with it. And guess what, there's one team which is routinely in the area of around 230-240.

I'm gonna guess you've found one of those features of the program which has to make sense of the baserunning settings. Know how we can only adjust the team as a whole and not individually? Someone else explained that it's because the best baserunners in this game can go 99 for 100. If every player could be adjusted, we'd have entire teams running with that efficiency.

So I'd guess it's a feature of the game that it has to manufacture GIDPs in some way to make the rest of the whole thing add up.

Also, we tend to let our teams ride when we find settings we like. IRL, if a team was GIDP that much the manager would tweak things to fix them, and a player who GIDP that much would get pulled from the lineup. In this game, it would only happen if someone like you really looked at the stats.

This is one of the main reasons I avoid slow contact hitters with very little power. I see a lot of guys who used to be studs that are age 35+ will have 75 contact with 80+ splits but no power or speed in free agency, but rarely do I sign them because even if they hit .280+, they are GIDP machines.

Culled through several seasons in several worlds and have not yet found any season in any world where multiple teams had over 174.

Best so far only had 2 with one above 200.