[The Game]

Originally Posted by Crowbar

- Ah I see now, I am actually trying to somewhat replicate real life more than not. But I still would like the random occurence where someone does not entirely reach their full potential. A slight randomness there. But roughly real stats.

-True, I will try both ways, see which one I think is best. I'll start with minors.

- It's hard to get a grasp on things like this option for instance. I read on some other threads that player development is more like a fictional way of simulating a historical game. I don't mind things happening differently, just not too much. I still want Babe Ruth have a high chance of succeeding like he did in real. But the average stars to be either slightly below their real stats or slighty more at their peak.

- I see, I will turn on "use hold expansion draft." Too much side problems there.

- Perhaps I failed a little to be more precise. What I want is basically the way you describe yourself playing the game. Doing the trades myself, the contracts, and semi-managing my line-up. Mostly letting AI do it, but if I see certain things that look strange, I will enforce my vision on the line-ups.

Thanks for the advice!

From my experience none of the real players will be nearly as good as IRL.
Notable players who will not make my HOF (started in 1999) Craig Biggio, 300 hits shy of 3,000. Frank Thomas, 65 HR shy of 500, Harold Baines, 2600 Hits 2846 IRL, So while all 3 of these players were still good, they are not HOF caliber. Paul Konerko, a clone of Ozzie Smith, A Clone of Rabbit Maranville & a clone of Luis Aparicio all suck in my game. The clone of Ozzie Smith had no defense ratings after 7 yrs. Now clones are different with recalc on, but many players you think will be great will be bad. Glove guys get no love in OOTP and tend to be career backups or retire after a handful of years.
Some players, especially pre 1925 players tend to be better then IRL. I have seen some players, not only in my leagues, have 200 more HR then IRL, 200 more wins, pitch 400 IP when that season IRL they had 250.