historical development

chriskelly · 03-30-2007, 09:16 PM

ok....a VERY stupid historical league question!!!

If I start a historical league in say, 1980....how do players develop? Are my starting ratings in 80 based on that players actual stats, career to date, and his potential on his actual stats....from then on? And...once I begin....are his future stats in any way factored in?

In other words, say I start in 1980 and totally mismanage my players, thus hindering their development in horrible ways. Will their 1986 stats still mean anything at all, with regard to their future in my league?

My god....I think I just took a simple q and made it very confusing.

Spritze · 04-12-2007, 10:03 PM

Well it all depends.

If you recalc ratings every year you can't mismanage players as they start over with their newly updated ratings every year and the ratings they ended the previous year with are immaterial and moot and of no import. (Unless you base the AI on previous years stats instead of current years or ratings)

If you don't recalc they start with ratings based on your import choices (remaining career, total career, etc) and then the development engine takes over and there ratings wind up wherever they windup and in this case the ratings they end the previous year with are the ratings they start the next year with.

So many options, which ones to use depends on what sort of league you wish to play around in.

chriskelly · 04-12-2007, 10:07 PM

thank you!!! How do I start a historical league but add fictional new players each year, instead of adding historical players only?

Spritze · 04-12-2007, 10:13 PM

Just fail to check the auto-import historical rookies box in the game setup screen.

03-30-2007, 09:16 PM	#1
chriskelly All Star Reserve Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 753	historical development ok....a VERY stupid historical league question!!! If I start a historical league in say, 1980....how do players develop? Are my starting ratings in 80 based on that players actual stats, career to date, and his potential on his actual stats....from then on? And...once I begin....are his future stats in any way factored in? In other words, say I start in 1980 and totally mismanage my players, thus hindering their development in horrible ways. Will their 1986 stats still mean anything at all, with regard to their future in my league? My god....I think I just took a simple q and made it very confusing.

04-12-2007, 10:03 PM	#2
Spritze OOTP Historical Czar Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Bothell Wa Posts: 7,253	Well it all depends. If you recalc ratings every year you can't mismanage players as they start over with their newly updated ratings every year and the ratings they ended the previous year with are immaterial and moot and of no import. (Unless you base the AI on previous years stats instead of current years or ratings) If you don't recalc they start with ratings based on your import choices (remaining career, total career, etc) and then the development engine takes over and there ratings wind up wherever they windup and in this case the ratings they end the previous year with are the ratings they start the next year with. So many options, which ones to use depends on what sort of league you wish to play around in.

04-12-2007, 10:07 PM	#3
chriskelly All Star Reserve Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 753	thank you!!! How do I start a historical league but add fictional new players each year, instead of adding historical players only?

04-12-2007, 10:13 PM	#4
Spritze OOTP Historical Czar Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Bothell Wa Posts: 7,253	Just fail to check the auto-import historical rookies box in the game setup screen.