Spaceman wrote:

That said, if you are trying to assess the capabilities of real-life rosters, keep in mind that many teams will see a 3-4-5 type hitter become nothing more
than a pinch hitter if you don't use the DH, which will skew those teams' performance downward. .



Forgot to mention in the above response, that in replay i did with AL/NL leagues combined into 1, the overall record of AL teams was better then the NL teams, despite playing the NL style play ... i wonder if a factor was that the majority of AL teams benefited from real-life performances that were padded from beating up on the expansion Mariners, Blue Jays & that awful Oakland team. Granted 1 replay is a small sample-size.