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Originally Posted by Brad K
The game should be performing based on the ratings of the players in the league not on what was produced by the historical players that year. It's not just things like you are doing. Someone pointed out one year Ruth and Gerhig had somewhere around half the ALs home runs. So if those guys were injured on opening day OOTP would bump the ratings of the guys who were active to achieve the league historical amount of HRs.
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I'm not quite so down on the concept of LTMs. In this save - up until now - I have been really happy with what's been happening. Mainly because I have very tempered expectations with regard to absolute accuracy. To dredge up poor old Roger Maris, I don't really care that he doesn't hit 61 in '61 999 times out of 1000 because I acknowledge that this was a complete and utter outlier season for him that is nigh on impossible to recreate without nerfing many others a la The Butterfly Effect. But if, as is the case here with Ruth, he is sitting at 7 HR after 90 games in a season where he historically hit 40+, then nobody can tell me something isn't amiss. Again, I believe this has been caused by the fact that the game has mistakenly returned his pitcher ratings to anomalously high levels. Smoky Joe Wood - who is on my squad - has had the same thing happen. It is erroneous, ergo a bug.
That said, I do believe the LTM logic is flawed and the sweet spot lies somewhere between where it currently is and where you want it to be. This all stems from how the game has been marketed, the holy grail of statistical accuracy in the most general of senses over the longer-term so that sites like BBRef do things like they did in 2020 and use OOTP to simulate the full season that was shortened IRL, increasing awareness of the game and, more importantly, sales. It is, at its most basic level, a
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Even if the current use of LTMs remains in place I firmly believe some clear. instruction of how to circumvent it in various ways should form part of the conversation and be included in the manual, thereby giving people various options and the knowledge of how to implement them as desired. "Fog of war" is one thing. Mis- and disinformation is another. And I believe that too often the devs lean toward the latter to protect the rep and "integrity' of the product. Even more so since the takeover.
I also - FWIW - believe you should be given the option to show the season from which you have chosen LTMs to be the one applied in the Historical Accuracy analysis at season's end, as opposed to now where it simply benchmarks the stats from the save against the year in which it was set.
Finally, an important point. The combined use of recalc and dev - as I am doing here - seems to be problematic, with the two being somewhat at cross purposes with each other. I had been warned about this, but need the dev on because of the problems with NeL player ratings. So, again, I am not using the game in the exact way it was designed to be used, which I believe to be a contributing factor to some of what I'm seeing.