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Originally Posted by No Pepper
I'm sorry to see this happen. Does it occur the same way for all imported, historical minor leaguers, i.e., non-NeL? Does the same ratings progression occur if you import the same player multiple times in the same universe at the same time to see if it is consistent? Has this occurred in previous versions of OOTP?
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To be honest NP, I know the comprehensive answer to none of these questions.
I've never mucked about with other minor league players, in this version or any previous ones.
My experience is that it is consistent with players in the same universe. For example I did some testing over the weekend with Grant Johnson and he behaved the same way when he came into the 1895 universe - I'd edit him to about 48 / 64 on CURR / POT and within a year or so he'd be 45/45 with very flat ratings across the board.
In the course of that testing, I did a few sims using cloned versions of players who rank at the top of the NeLer's similarity scores.
I did Grant with Luke Appling and then Josh Gibson with both Mike Piazza and then Jimmie Foxx. The results were OK but you are still vulnerable to the cloned player's imprint having too strong an effect on the NeLer, despite you having entered in a whole new set of stats for the ratings to be generated.
This, for mine, is where the problem lays. As I said earlier - why allow us to go into the editor in the first place if the changes we make aren't going to hold? I fully understand the imprint is necessary in lieu of having recalc to cross check each season. But just don't see why the edits aren't retained by the engine. Makes no sense whatsoever.
So as it stands my yearly edits are the best way I have and this continued testing has allowed me to hone them further so that now I have them incorporated into the spreadsheet of each profile. Even though it's less than a minute's work per player per season, I don't think there's any point in sharing them because few, if any, would be interested and those that are can PM me and I'll share them that way.