[luckymann]

Originally Posted by Charlie Hough

After playing fictional historicals in OOTP 22, I've decided to get back to more conventional historical games, but I'm using historical minors for the first time, and I encountered some of the same problems as the OP.

For example, some minor leaguers have ratings that are far too strong given their real life minor league stats, so they end up on the Major League roster when they really shouldn't be. I'm seeing things such as a pitcher in 1979 who had a 5.00+ ERA in AAA, but he's rated better than relievers who had considerably better stats in the majors for that year. This guy is rated as one of the better relievers in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, which won the World Series that year, and that doesn't make any sense.

I'm using one-year recalc with 150 at-bats and 30 IP for adjustment, and my weakening settings are the defaults. But I can't figure out why this pitcher would be rated so highly.

I don't mind minor leaguers making the majors or deviating from real life based on the development engine, but these are ratings that were just created at initial league creation. No development has occurred.

If anyone has some settings you can recommend to prevent cases like this, I would appreciate it.

Pretty sure post 5 answers your question.