Modern Leagues
 

I have only played fictional, and I'm a little confused about the Modern leagues. Say you start a new league in 2017 with OOTP 17 and you use actual players from the 2017 real season opening-day rosters. Then you get to the 2018 season (still on OOTP 17). Does OOTP provide a new disk/download containing only player stats for the just-completed 2017 season? In other words, does player development reflect real-world performance, or does player development "stay within your own game universe"? If the former is true, then I imagine it would be fun rooting for your players to do well in real life.

Player development stays within your universe. Basically if you start a 2017 game it becomes fictional with the first sim. You are using fictionalized development and outcomes with real players and teams.

there are 2-3-4 years of real life amatuers in the database. once those run out it is 100% fictionally created.


also, your sim year won't match the real 2017, so development will be different.

development is almost entirely independent of results, FYI... or it should be 100%, if realistic and self-respecting model. not always true for a video game context though.

actualyl mlb develpment is independent of playing time -- manual can verify that. in minors it helps a 'bit' to make sure they play 'more' than less for development rate.

so, it's not that statistical results are differnet... it's that the development engine did things differently but in the same %'s chances -- roughly.

players are contructed from statistics to be represented in our digital universe (ootp vid game)... but that's working backward to define a player in the game. that is also why it's inexact and flawed... (not criticism, literally the best way to do it despite these facts, obviously)