Another product of number-crunching out of boredom, but I found this kinda interesting. Following is the team average for BA, HR, (neither of which matters in gameplay, but included for the hell of it), Contact, Power, and Speed. All 12 batters on each team were used in figuring the numbers. I can't believe my Cardinals weren't on top in speed; stupid bench.
NES teams:
Team Avg HR Cnt Power Speed
California .264 15 22 848 128
Boston .273 16 22 840 126
Detroit .284 17 20 849 126
Minnesota .266 15 22 817 127
Houston .273 10 22 785 133
New York .276 10 21 799 128
St. Louis .277 7 23 793 131
San Francisco .278 14 18 823 126
AL All-stars .309 23 14 825 127
NL All-stars .309 23 15 825 133
Arcade teams:
Team Avg HR Cnt Power Speed
Oakland .288 28 23 830 130
Houston .300 16 22 775 133
Atlanta .297 28 22 846 129
St. Louis .330 22 15 774 132
Chicago .308 29 19 834 129
Los Angeles .315 22 15 791 134
San Francisco .317 27 15 818 131
Cincinnati .323 25 15 807 133
Boston .334 30 12 819 128
New York .330 35 16 852 126
Edit: sorry, that's about as good as the tables are gonna line up. Maybe it's my browser, maybe YaBB, I dunno. *shrug*
Nightwulf
How did you factor in the "groundball" attribute? Was it equal to 0 power?
There is no groundball attribute. Power is a 2-byte field (from 0-65535). Whoever came up with that theory evidently hadn't seen how word values are commonly stored in assembler. In 6502 anyway. Not trying to insult them; I probably would've made the same mistake had I not been a teenage nerd with an Apple.
Nightwulf
Maybe you could find the stats of the actual teams people use. Like, Larry Herndon doesn't really count because almost everyone subs him. Just a thought.
Nightwolf= RBI badass !!!!!!!
So if there's no groundball attribute, are all the power ratings listed on this site wrong?
Kinda. Take the power listed for any given player, and add 768. That's the correct power. Those who had the alleged "groundball attribute" have figures below 768.
Correct power figures for the NES players can be seen here (http://nightwulf.rbicentral.com/rbi_NES.txt).
Nightwulf