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Originally Posted by Rain King
Well, the beauty and curse of OOTP has always been that it is trying to be everything for everybody.
They've added "replay" type features because that is what people have asked for and hopefully they will continue to do so since that is a significant portion of the user base.
A lot of the things you are talking about ARE in, just not necessarily in the exact way you are hoping I guess?
5-Year recalc knocks down players that had brief runs of success and prevents players who lost war years from being ruined because of it.
The game does know the number of plate appearances that Quinton Berry and Ted Williams had and allows you to set the playing time levels that get adjusted. It would be MUCH better, of course, if this was adjustable beyond that first League Setup screen.
Other suggestions you made sound great, but become head scratchers when you think about how OOTP might be able to actually go about it. What should OOTP use in Chris Carpenter's injury years to rate him? This kind of thing becomes very difficult because as you change the "rules" to "fix" one player that might "break" another. How does the game even know he was injured vs. some other reason for low playing time? There is technically an option for this (by disabling Recalc and going with the development engine), but again maybe not exactly what you want.
OOTP provides a LOT of ways to play, but it is impossible to provide EVERY way to play and every option provides a new iteration of things to consider when adding the next feature, but I do think some kind of option in between the "Straight Recalc" and the "No Recalc" worlds would be a great addition.
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Chris Carpenter 2004, 15-5 182 innings pitched. 2005, 21-5 241.2 innings pitched, 2006 15-8 221.2 innings pitched. 2007 0-1 6 innings pitched. 2008 0-1 15.1 innings pitched. 2009 17-4 192.2 innings pitched. 2010 16-9 235 innings pitched. 2011 11-9 237.1 innings pitched. The game should be able to see that something was amiss in 2007-08 and adjust accordingly. OOTP is not a replay, so determining whether it was an injury or a bad attitude, drugs or laziness should not be a factor. The guy was a Cy Young level pitcher for 3 seasons leading up to those 2 years and Cy Young level pitcher for at least 2 seasons following those years. It should not require 5 year recalc. Also, the game doesn't destroy Britt Burns following the year corresponding to his 1985 season. In fact, I've had Burns win 300 games in a random debut. In another he won roughly 160 and pitched till he was 36 or 37. The opposite would be a guy like Mark Fidrych. Only one season of over 150 innings pitched. The adjust make bad settings should hammer The Bird.
That's what to me would make OOTP the ultimate whatif game. What if Chris Carpenter didn't get hurt during those two season. Of course, I play with injuries on, so an Out of the Park injury could derail him as well. Problem is, so much of what keeps Carpenter from getting crushed is what makes OOTP fun and random debut fun. Take out the ability of using recalc and development together and random debut is dead. Oh and I use low TCR's more often than not. The problem is the whole process is so willy nilly. Ted Williams may get to the years coinciding with the war years and just play on like nothing ever happened. Meanwhile, Joe DiMaggio will turn into a bottom of the order scrub or worse a pinch hitter. Feller will become a bullpen guy and Greenberg will remain a stud. Thing is, it will all get blamed on development being on. You can't play random debut without development unless you love Bill Murray,