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Originally Posted by bigMatt
I appreciate that you had the courage and tenacity to persevere until you got a decent answer.
I've been having much the same problems myself, and was about ready to give up on OOTP entirely. I started a historic league in '54 with recalc turned off, and auto-played until '61 with the idea I'd get an expansion team and draft.
I was absolutely appalled by how terrible just about every player was in 1961. Mantle was hitting under .200 and riding the bench with a salary exceeding $1 mil. Mays, Robinson, Roger Maris, Kenny Boyer...heck, just about everyone of consequence in the actual year 1961 was swirling around the drain in my league. And I'm not exaggerating here.
After seeing these settings (and where does someone find these and other suggested settings anyway?) I can begin to fathom what the heck is going on. Now I'm tempted to restart my league again (I'm midway through '64) with these adjustments.
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Not to add to your angst, I believe the settings I use and RonCo's settings are specific to modern MLB set ups. They may work just fine but I have no data to support it. Perhaps a historical simmer can chime in on this.
I strongly believe that high player development settings increase the possibility of "falling star" type players by skewing the development curve to the early twenties. However I don't know what effect that has on existing historical players.
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