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Originally Posted by RchW
It doesn't matter if you get the top players in any particular category right. If the rest of the players in the league don't match the raw real life age distribution of the year or series of years desired then the league will not be right. I'm not being sarcastic but I don't know how to explain it more clearly. Once you get the raw age distribution right then if category leaders don't match real life results you have a legitimate beef about the talent distribution and modifiers. It is a chicken and egg situation.
It's also important to note that real life baseball age distribution is undergoing a massive shift due to an injection of cheap high end talent and the end of rampant steroid use. We could see the peak age for players move from almost 27 to 24-25 by the end of next year. That is a huge change.
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Exactly which is why Eiskrap's charts that showed the average age ranges of players based on ABs and IPs proves what everyone on here was talking about. He took into account the age distribution based on ABs and IPs and there was distinct differences in the averages from real life to OOTP. He did quite a few of them. I really do not understand how you fail to see just how blatant this is.
It's not simply a one or two "cherry picked" category solution. It's the standard of the average age of your entire league based on WHO IS ACTUALLY PLAYING and PERFORMING!
Also, while modern day MLB numbers have certainly dropped off from the steroid era and is trending a little younger I fail to see hitting numbers going back to where they were decades ago. With modern day legal supplements, strength routines, hitters parks, etc I think this is pretty much the new standard. Also, IMO the goal for modern day settings should not be to predict future trends. I want a true to life current experience of MLB Baseball as it is right now and has been over the past few years.