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Originally Posted by G-Nuke
Unfortunately that means the game is useless from a historical replay perspective. You have way too many players taking roster spots far to early in and displacing players that should still be playing. I would expect this to work exactly like OOTP.
Now the alternative is making absolutely sure that a player like Plante is rated lower then any other Habs goalie in years where he didn't play in the real NHL... as realistically that's how he was rated at the time to get an accurate replay.
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Which is exactly what I'm trying to do, and have spent hundreds of hours working on over the last year. It may not model every situation perfectly right now, but when I come across something that's not fitting together right, I fix it, and the model gets a little better. In this case, I needed to move Plante's first Montreal year back a bit, possibly change his development curve and stats, and might need to boost Gerry McNeil's ratings so he's got the edge after Bill Durnan retires. That way, you get the actual decision Frank Selke had to make: when do you switch from McNeil, who's a couple of years older and a little better at the moment, to Plante, who's younger and has more long-term potential? That makes for a more interesting, and in my opinion realistic, game than just forcing the answer on the player because the stats say McNeil was the starter from 50-54.