OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Playing historical players without recalc

robc · 05-04-2018, 04:03 PM

Hi,

I'm not a frequent player, but when I do I tend to play as the 1970s Yankees or early 80s Yankees. I used to always play with recalc on, varying the recalc period. This players performing roughly like they should. After several times I started getting tired of that.

More recently (a version or 2 ago) I tried real players, but turning recalc off and using the OOTP development engine. I wanted to play with full minor leagues so I would have more players to manage and with the development engine it wouldn't be a given how players would be rated. I did want players initial potential ratings to be realistic though.

There were some key players for me (Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly) whose potentials always seemed too low, so they would never have the type of years they were capable of. Since they were my favorite players, that would kill it for me. Maybe with someone like Guidry, he just didn't have enough great years to great great potential ratings and Don's back problems limited his performance.

Does anyone know if potential rating calculation has changed over the past version or two so these players may be rated better?

Thanks

05-04-2018, 04:03 PM	#1
robc Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,095	Playing historical players without recalc Hi, I'm not a frequent player, but when I do I tend to play as the 1970s Yankees or early 80s Yankees. I used to always play with recalc on, varying the recalc period. This players performing roughly like they should. After several times I started getting tired of that. More recently (a version or 2 ago) I tried real players, but turning recalc off and using the OOTP development engine. I wanted to play with full minor leagues so I would have more players to manage and with the development engine it wouldn't be a given how players would be rated. I did want players initial potential ratings to be realistic though. There were some key players for me (Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly) whose potentials always seemed too low, so they would never have the type of years they were capable of. Since they were my favorite players, that would kill it for me. Maybe with someone like Guidry, he just didn't have enough great years to great great potential ratings and Don's back problems limited his performance. Does anyone know if potential rating calculation has changed over the past version or two so these players may be rated better? Thanks