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Originally Posted by ovccsteve
Simple. Name ONE. Not some scrub. Name one player who was an all-star caliber player for two years prior to his 25th birthday and who was out of the game completely by 29 without any injuries. Now realize that this is happening in my league at a rate of over one player per season.
Are scrubs hanging on to long? Never paid attention. Are lots of scrubs only around a couple years in real life? Sure. How does it match up with OOTP? Not really concerned. But I am concerned when player after player falls completely off the table in less than one year. When a guy has a .393 OBP at age 26 and by the following spring is so bad he can't get 50 at bats. That is a problem and it hurts the believability of a great game.
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There must be something in the league set up. I checked players who retired early (before age 35) in my solo league. Pitchers were filtered to 150 games and batters to 1500 AB to capture players that had actual careers vs cup of coffee types. This produced 40 pitchers and 39 batters.
Of the batters, 6 had CEI. Another 4 or 5 had several LT injuries leading to decline. Only 2 qualified as flameouts IMO.
Of the pitchers only one had a CEI none had multiple injuries (that is a separate problem) and three could be considered flameouts.
What are your player development and aging mods set at? It is possible that your development mods are causing players to be too good too soon. That would increase the likelihood of flameouts IMO.
See my player dev settings below.