Can Someone Please Explain

[luckymann]

How does a guy who didn't play in 1949 at all IRL get these ratings in a 1-year recalc currently playing that season?

Am I missing something?

G

[Pelican]

I have never dealt with single-digit ratings, so hard to grasp. I gather these are relatively high? He did have outstanding years in 1945 and 1950. I don't use annual recalc, so no experience there. Maybe if there are no stats for the previous year, the AI looks back to the last active year? I think that's what happens with guys who were off during World War II.

[Rain King]

I believe somewhere in the last few versions they added bridge stats/ratings within the database for players that missed full seasons.

This was in response to complaints about guys like Ted Williams being complete crap in the years they have missing because of the war, etc. The ratings for those seasons are some kind of average of the seasons around it.

If you don't want players to play in seasons they missed in real life there is an option in the Historical Settings that controls that. "Players miss seasons according to history".

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by Rain King

I believe somewhere in the last few versions they added bridge stats/ratings within the database for players that missed full seasons.

This was in response to complaints about guys like Ted Williams being complete crap in the years they have missing because of the war, etc. The ratings for those seasons are some kind of average of the seasons around it.

If you don't want players to play in seasons they missed in real life there is an option in the Historical Settings that controls that. "Players miss seasons according to history".

This most likely explains what I am seeing, although I still don't get why it should be applied in 1949, which wasn't a "war year".

Thx

G

[jksander]

Originally Posted by luckymann

This most likely explains what I am seeing, although I still don't get why it should be applied in 1949, which wasn't a "war year".

Thx

G

I think it gets applied every year, and if they're going to have it as a fix for the war years, it also then affects players who simply didn't play, or who had one bad year amid good ones. But obviously this level of complex programming goes way beyond my experience lol

[Rain King]

Originally Posted by luckymann

This most likely explains what I am seeing, although I still don't get why it should be applied in 1949, which wasn't a "war year".

Thx

G

It isn't just for war years, that was an example. It is also used to rate players who missed entire seasons due to injury, etc.

[luckymann]

Originally Posted by Rain King

It isn't just for war years, that was an example. It is also used to rate players who missed entire seasons due to injury, etc.

Gotcha, thanks.

[luckymann]

All the same, if any of the devs are looking on, it might need a rethink. I'm not sure this is the desired sort of output from a player in this situation, is it? he's a decent chance of winning the MVP.

[jksander]

Originally Posted by luckymann

All the same, if any of the devs are looking on, it might need a rethink. I'm not sure this is the desired sort of output from a player in this situation, is it? he's a decent chance of winning the MVP.

It's one year recalc right? Looks like his last year before 1949 is 1945, so the best the game can do is use hte most recent year (and in that year he put up 4.8 WAR). That's why I always use three year recalc, so it flattens out that kind of anomaly ... not sure what the best way to rethink this would be ...

It's also a long standing issue with guys who had their best years in the upper minors getting incredible ratings for the majors. The biggest solution to that would be turning off realistic minors, but I play all my games out out and like universes that diverge from reality using the game's development engine, so that's never really bothered me much.