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Originally Posted by David Watts
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. 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,
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You want to play a very specific way and I get that and think what you are describing would be a strong addition.
How things "should" work is subjective in this case, though.
I also think a basic implementation of this would cause a lot of unintended consequences/issues and thus a good implementation would be a VERY heavy lift from a logic/testing stand-point.