[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Reed

I think I can explain a little bit. For guys like St. Vrain who’s real life career has ended, the development engine kicks in. For guys that miss season’s, the development DOES NOT kick in. I think the game is looking at the miss seasons as a recalc year and will use zero ABs and zero hits in its computation.

What kind of TCR are you using? I assume you are using combination recalc/development.

I have had Pete Dowling who was out of baseball at age 24 end up winning 4 CY Youngs and being an all star for 6 or more years.

If a player misses 1 year IRL, 3 yr and 5 yr will work fine if the requirements for weaken/adjust settings are met the season before and after the miss season.

If a player misses 3 years and you use 3 yr recalc., they will be toast the 2nd miss season since OOTP will see zero ABs or IP for the year before, the current year, and the following year.

One way around this is to do as Garlon suggests, use 5 year recalc.. However if you use 100 as your adjust setting (not double weighted) then the adjust will use (5x100) or 500. So for the 2nd miss year the game will ad the 3 miss years of ABs (zero) to the total of ABs of the immediate seasons before and after the miss years. If that total is over 500 in this example then no problem. If he has less than 500 ABs, then he starts taking a hit.

As far as St Vrain is concerned, a lot of it depends on team needs, adjust/weaken, development engine, his pitches and once he gets experience then who knows.

In my random leagues I have seen the AI convert IRL relief pitcher with 40-50 IP into staters and on the same team convert real life starters (usually not very good) into relievers.

Hope this rambling helps a little bit. Sorry I didn’t respond a couple weeks ago but my IPad messed up. Feel free to email me if you ever like.

Yeah, I used Garlons setting for 5 year a ton with OOTP23. This year I've used 3 year with the default quite a bit. This time around I tried upping adjust/weaken after I read a post you made a ways back. I'm liking what I'm seeing.