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Originally Posted by murphbot1204
I'm looking at doing a Historical Career starting in 2014 with the Boston Red Sox, but when I'm not sure about any of the pre-game settings. I'd like everything to be relatively accurate, including the development of players through the minor leagues (I just went through a previous game, and all drafted players were immediately 4-5 star CA. All settings were left alone when I set this game up.)
What settings do people change to make career play as accurate as possible?
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1-year recap is where you need to start. That will give you as accurate ratings and statistical output as the game offers.
From there, it is up to you but remember every change you make is a small step away from the historical toward the fictional.
So I think you'll find that the absolute maximum verisimilitude comes with:
- 1-year recalc ON
- historical lineups ON
- historical transactions ON
- miss seasons according to history ON
- retire according to history ON
- TCR set as low as possible, IE 1
and everything else at default, with the historical season LTM applied.
Minors are problematic in a realist context. As soon as you introduce historical minors, pretty much all bets are off with regard to IRL alignment. Think it through, the only guys who come into the equation re the MLB level still come into the game without minors on, in their rookie MLB season. So for the rest it is purely, as my good friend Bradley pointed out, an exercise in randomness.
Sure, you miss out on the development career phase of the guys who feature in the game, but what 1-year recalc does is tie them to the flagpole of their historical performance in each given age season, so their talent always stays closely aligned to that historical level.
In other words, with all of these settings on, Big Papi should go close to replicating his 2014 performance and so on and so forth.
Hope that helps, if not, keep asking questions and we'll try get you where you need to be.
G