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Originally Posted by Caseus
My initial response is that of awe. After years of EHM, this system sounds incredible.
I would like to raise an issue: both goaltenders and defensemen tend to mature later than forwards. Defensemen don't usually come into their prime until their late 20s. Any chance of reflecting that?
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I want to eventually, but I think I'd rather handle it by varying the speed at which specific attributes improve, so the stuff that tends to develop later (Defensive Read being the obvious example) does that, and therefore crucial parts of a defenceman's game don't peak until a later age. That way, we can still get a 24-year-old Norris winner like P.K. Subban, who's doing it mainly on the strength of his offensive game, instead of artificially constraining defencemen across-the-board.
As for Goaltenders, the mental side of their game is a larger percentage of their total skill set, so that will tend to mean they tend to peak later. (And I forgot to mention in the development post that Goaltending development has some extra unpredictability built into it, so there should be some late bloomers that benefit from big upturns later in their career.)