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Originally Posted by thehef
Excellent post!
I'll add that several versions ago, for players missing seasons or playing beyond their real-life retirement, OOTP seemed to apply some sort of minimal/random development to them, even with TCR off*** ... At some point, full functionality of Retire According to History and Miss Seasons According to History was removed, especially if you are also playing with historical transactions enabled.
***I can't say for sure how OOTP handled this, but many versions ago if I de-selected RAH & MSAH, used historical transactions, and with development off, then Koufax would play beyond 1966 with reasonable - but varied from sim to sim - results, and Teddy Ballgame and Joltin' Joe would have reasonable war years stats.
For the latter (restoring full functionality of RAH & MSAH), that has been requested for a few years now. I keep pushing for it... Restoring it would be in line with what you wrote above: "We are doing a whatif. The game needs to have the ability to see this..."
One thing you didn't mention but I'm sure you'll endorse, is being able to adjust your adjust & weaken settings after you've started your game... just like you can adjust TCR or recalc later... As it is now, you can't see what your adjust & weaken selections were, so if you don't remember what they were for one game (or test) vs another, you're out of luck... That said, there might be some sentiment to change this. Not sure, though...
Anyways, great stuff!
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The thing is, you can search "Garlon" and find 2 or 3 occasions where he gives his recommendations for 5 year recalc. I have one set of them memorized now for hitters he said to use 154/67 and for pitchers 17/14. I use those a lot. But, what about 3 year recalc. I have no clue. Would have to search, but I think Pstrickert gives some settings that work for real lineups/real transaction replays.
It would just be so cool if the game simply displayed the best option. User's could still use their own if they choose to do so. I agree 100% that it shouldn't be a one time option. If we know we made a mistake, starting over sometimes isn't the fun thing to do.