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Originally Posted by David Watts
This is the rub and something I doubt anyone truly knows the answer to. I guess one could test it by creating a league in 1944 and looking at the ratings/performance of guys like Ted Williams, Joe D, Hank Greenberg and Bob Feller.
Another question. Does the game adjust/weaken non recalc league players based on 1 year recalc, 3 year recalc or 5 year recalc adjust/weaken settings?
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I like to play with no recalc all development. It's a little better than it used to be. I used to use a database years ago that someone created that helped with players importing in a year where they had bad stats or played very little. Best example I can give for a batter is Mike Schmidt. He was a rookie in 72 with awful stats and his ratings were made even worse by the adjust/weaken settings. It was very rare that he would ever develop in to anything near what he actually became. As a pitcher, Nolan Ryan was the best example. He would import in 1966 in a year that he only pitched 3 innings with terrible results. adjust/weaken made those bad ratings even worse. Most replays he never even became a ML pitcher. I know this is what recalc is designed to do, to help players be more like their career arc was. I liked playing without recalc because I didn't want an exact replay of history. I wanted to see people like Mark Fidyrich have long careers. Players like Ryan and Schmidt at times would develop but it always took many more years than what they did in real life for that to happen. All that being said I always set the weaken rating extremely low often as low as 1. With adjust I would bring it down to maybe 20 for batters and 5 for pitchers.