[Brad K]

"If you code the game to have good minor leaguers retire after just one or two seasons in the minors, then a lot of customers are going to be pretty upset. Imagine having a player who looks like a good prospect and is playing and developing well, and then you lose him for no good reason. Yes, it happens in real life on occasion, but it's very rare, and, even if you model it in OOTP, it's not going to significantly reduce number of career minor leaguers that you're seeing reach MLB."

Concerning the first bold, why is that any worse that giving Jim Palmer a career ending injury in 1970?

Concerning the second bold, you don't know how often it happens. You're guessing.


"Given what I just discussed above, I think you're focusing on a macro-level number too soon, without a full account of all the potential factors that could be causing this."



C'mon. 34% and 45%? Well, if we don't start with that then there's nothing to discuss.

What we have in the responses in this thread are basically two things.

1) OOTP is working correctly or it was fixed to work correctly after the versions that created the data.

2) Any observed instances of it not working are a PIC problem. (Person In Chair, as in we're using the wrong settings.)

It's said there isn't enough data. 34% and 45% are being dismissed requesting more detail without acknowledgement 34% and 45% show a problem. The way this is going there will never be enough data, so why would luckymann or I be motivated to produce any more to address the speculations of the cause.

They're not our speculations. Those speculating, compile your own data to prove them. Why is it acceptable for others to speculate and ask that it be accepted as fact?