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Originally Posted by luckymann
My understanding, very much framed by my own observations, differs slightly from hef's.
I am of the firm belief that a player has an "imprint" that is the basic template from which the game plans out his career that he receives when he is "born" IE imported. This will differ in various ways if you import him at different stages of his career, but only in that it cuts off the section of the career that came before the import date.
In this case, which is why WM has come in with 80 POT.
So theoretically, with only the dev engine on he'll gravitate along this preordained path, like a plane goes from takeoff to landing (in a way), in other words less accurately without the "waypoints" that recalc provide along the course of his career.
Recalc keeps things tighter with regard to the IRL career than dev only, which leaves the player more susceptible to deviation and volatility, either just as a natural part of the game or because of settings such as LTMs and TCR.
But, regardless of whether recalc or dev is being applied, the general trajectory of this player's career has already been set. So you get something that resembles Willie or whomever it is. It's merely a matter of degrees from there.
That, at least, is how I have come to think of this question.
Hope that helps.
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Very curious about this, so I did a test:
1953 start
Current ratings = Real Stats
Potential = Remaining Years
Player Devel = Use Talent Ratings & OOTP Development Engine
Historical Txns enabled
After the game was created I sent TCR to 120 & turned off Real IL Txns and Historical Lineups
Mays imported as a free agent and was still a FA by opening day (expected), so I assigned him to the NY Giants. I won't bore with ratings details but the summary of his scouting report was "Mays is organizational filler." Expected... By opening day, it was "Mays' ceiling is as a bench contributor."
I simmed thru 1970. Probably because of his defense he had several years with 500+ AB's. However, only twice did he reach 10+ HR's (10 in '54, 12 in '55. For his career (thru '69) he hit 117 HRs. His avg generally flirted around the Mendoza line, with a high of .264 in '62. Seven times he batted less than .200. He swiped 10 bases in each of '64 & '65; those were his high marks.
So... I don't know if my hunch was right or if luckyman's is correct. After all, this is just one test, and anything can happen with Recalc off and TCR at 120... That said, in looking at the yearly leaderboards, I'm seeing a lot of familiar names, which tells me that for a lot of guys whose rookie year was decent, TCR may have tweaked them somewhat, but their rookie year was the baseline for their future. Mays' pretty dismal career (in my sim) would fall in line with that logic.
Oh, and FWIW, on his scouting reports, his potential was 4.5-5 starts from import thru late '55; dropped to 4 stars in early '56, 3 starts for the rest of '56, 2.5 stars in '57; 2 stars in '58-'59; back n forth between 1.5 & 2 stars thru '68, and then 1-1.5 stars thru end of '70.
By that time (when he was still very good IRL), the summary of his scouting report was "Mays has top-tier minor league skills, but will compete for a reserve role at the major-league level."
Happy to look up any details...