Man. These guys go back nearly 14 years. They certainly don't make it em like they used to.

I feel like HBD has finally resembled real life. In the MLB there is only 1 pitcher in the last 50 years in the top 250 for most wins in a single season. The guy who holds the record at number 1 has 60!




Edit: Radbourn finished the season with a league-leading 678.2 innings pitched and 73 complete games, and he won the Triple Crown with a record of 60-12, a 1.38 earned run average, and 441 strikeouts. His 60 wins in a season is a record which is expected never to be broken because no starter has made even as many as 37 starts in a season since 1991.^[9] Also, his 678.2 innings pitched stands at second all-time, behind only Will White (680 in 1879) for a single season.


Was baseball a different sport back in the 19th century?

TO much drug testing now.

Player Profile: Chris Lawrie - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports and Player Profile: Rubby Valentin - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports were two of the best that I have ever seen and they were in the same world.

But Ross and Stewart. Whoa. That was probably back when you could increase players ratings almost season-after-season with high enough training budgets.

Posted by hockey1984 on 2/26/2020 3:11:00 PM (view original):
I feel like HBD has finally resembled real life. In the MLB there is only 1 pitcher in the last 50 years in the top 250 for most wins in a single season. The guy who holds the record at number 1 has 60!




Edit: Radbourn finished the season with a league-leading 678.2 innings pitched and 73 complete games, and he won the Triple Crown with a record of 60-12, a 1.38 earned run average, and 441 strikeouts. His 60 wins in a season is a record which is expected never to be broken because no starter has made even as many as 37 starts in a season since 1991.^[9] Also, his 678.2 innings pitched stands at second all-time, behind only Will White (680 in 1879) for a single season.


Was baseball a different sport back in the 19th century?

That is an interesting take. I have talked with some owners who simply call the early HBD years "the Steroid Era" due to the massive amounts of homeruns and stolen bases, but I guess the pitchers were doing the juice too back then.

Ross was a product of the "training bug." He was 28 when the world started and was good but we were all new and not sure what to expect. The owner had extra budget and threw it in training and medical and the ratings for Ross continued to grow until he was in his mid-30's. He had a hard drop though once the training bug was fixed.

Ross was traded for this guy and two other guys who never made the majors.

Someone had no clue what they were doing if they traded him, he got really no value in return!

https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/PlayerRatings.aspx?pid=2450733

Player Profile: Tim Kelly - Hardball Dynasty Baseball | WhatIfSports

I'll add Tim to the mix.
Definitely belongs in the conversation at least.

Ross’s splits actually got over 100 a couple of seasons. But reset back to 100 so it doesn’t show. He was 101, I forget which split though.

Well King did get to 300 wins, 336 to be exact. Ironically 1 more than Del Diaz.

Kelly had 466...

Posted by hockey1984 on 2/26/2020 3:11:00 PM (view original):
I feel like HBD has finally resembled real life. In the MLB there is only 1 pitcher in the last 50 years in the top 250 for most wins in a single season. The guy who holds the record at number 1 has 60!




Edit: Radbourn finished the season with a league-leading 678.2 innings pitched and 73 complete games, and he won the Triple Crown with a record of 60-12, a 1.38 earned run average, and 441 strikeouts. His 60 wins in a season is a record which is expected never to be broken because no starter has made even as many as 37 starts in a season since 1991.^[9] Also, his 678.2 innings pitched stands at second all-time, behind only Will White (680 in 1879) for a single season.


Was baseball a different sport back in the 19th century?

Underhand pitching, for the most part. The guy with the middle finger.. Lol.

Brandon Meyers and his 8 Cy Young's and 300+ wins and counting is my best that I have had.