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Posted By: jay behrens

Anson, the reason for the lower ERA is not lack of power numbers. The reason for the lower ERA is high error rate. Lack of HRs is a small contributor, but ERA were kept down because of the huge number of errors committed.

Go out and get the computer baseball simulation Diamond Mind and play a deadball or 19c era game. You pull your hair out with the number of errors your players committ. I've been playing the 1887 season. Seeing games with 10 runs scored and 10 errors isn't uncommon.

Jay

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