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Originally Posted by redmarkYankees
I've found that a lot of players who appear to be playing 'too long' are doing so because their hitting ratings aren't declining - but their fielding ratings are. Consequently, at the end of 1937 Ruth hasn't been a starter in 4 years, but is hanging around getting pinch hits. Even the season before that, his ABs dropped markedly, presumably as he was being subbed on defense. However, his hitting ratings didn't start to decline noticeably until 1935/36, and even in 1938 are still decent (greens/yellows). Looks like the ageing curve is now a little more focused on 'creating DHs', which is realistic enough, but HOF-level players in a non-DH era/league should have the dignity to retire, or at least move to 1B.
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This is very interesting. I'm by no means an expert OOTP tinkerer, but it seems that if you set injuries to "Low" and then change the batter aging speed to some magic number everything should work out fine. Does anyone with more experience in this have a suggestion of what this might be or what a good place to start would be?