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Originally Posted by fredbeene
I don't understand how to stop using real world stats after the initial season... why wouldn't the recalc ignore real life stats going fw and only use the simulated game stats??
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The answer is to turn off recalc. That's the purpose of recalc - to recalc player ratings based upon real stats after every season.
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Originally Posted by fredbeene
(the goal being to not try to replicate a season, but to have peak potentials and dev engine, randomness, determine the fate of the universe : )
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With recalc off, your Talent Randomness setting will determine how players develop. With that setting very low, you should expect players to generally stay the same-ish as their first season. With it very high, you should expect wide variations from reality.
I'll note that from time to time I like to do a 1975 replay to see if the Dodgers - had they been healthy - could've kept up with the Reds. Since I don't want to use a 3 or 5-year recalc (because I want the 1975 Big Red Machine to be the best-of-their-era Reds and not an average-of-their era team), I instead take, for players such as Bill Buckner, Bill Russell, Tommy John and a few others, the average of the 1974 and 1976 stats, and plug them in for 1975 to get
what-if-they-were-healthy ratings for those guys.
Now if you're only talking Bobby Thomson and a few others here and there, that could work. If, instead, you're talking bunches of players, that might be unworkable.