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Originally Posted by majesty95
With development off and recalc on he should be pretty close to his real life self. Kind of the point...
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The problem is if you don't retire historically the league totals don't adjust for more elite pitchers in the game if that occurs. Back to the example if an another elite K pitcher sticks on later than he should then there are more elite K pitchers to divide the Ks from the totals between. Since the game somehow changes probabilities to get overall stats right that means Ryan loses some Ks a year since the pool of elite pitchers is bigger but the number of Ks to hand out is the same.
More modern lets assume Carlos Hernandez who played for the Astros is your game. He only played 2 years for the Astros until he tore his shoulder sliding into second. He was good but lets assume he was elite. So instead of playing 2001 and 2002 he is playing up to 2015. He might affect Kershaw's numbers in 2014 because there is an extra high rated pitcher who shouldn't be there who has to take up a portion of the historical pitching stats. You get 10 Carlos Hernandez types and it could be a real problem.
That is the irony of the game. The ratings should reflect certain levels of performance but the league totals can stunt people's performance if they are too many players wtih very high ratings. For instance I had way too many feeders in a fictional league way back. My average hitter in the majors had a contact of 15 or 16. There guys were not hitting .300 plus but toward average because the hits total was spread out among them. So a 10 guy might hit below the Mendoza line in this league while a 16 guy was around .260.