Recalc Question- Future Leagues & Minors

[Trav876]

Does anyone know how recalc works if you have guys who were in the minors in real life, but then come up to MLB in your season? Does the recalc engine use their simmed MLB stats, or would it just reset their ratings to what they were the prior year?


Also does the "base AI evaluation on" weights affect this at all as well (e.g. if you heavily weighted "previous season" and had "ratings" weighted low)?


Similarly, what happens to players as you progress the league into the future? E.g. if I have a 3 year recalc, and continue playing into 2022, will it only use 2019...so that it would basically turn into a 1 year recalc? Or does it use the fictional/simmed year as part of the equation?


Thanks for any help.

[andyhdz]

Not sure what you mean by player recalcs. Are you referring to the recalcuating the season modifiers? Those you either manually recalc or set to auto recalc on the first day of the season. You can't recalc once the season starts so it doesn't adjust to player movement within the league. This really hurts minor league stats where a good player can tear up a league when sent down. However you can always adjust the league modifers anytime you want so let's say the HR rates are set at 4.1 and you are noticing way too many homers you can always tweak them you just can have the program do it anymore since the season started.

[Trav876]

Originally Posted by andyhdz

Not sure what you mean by player recalcs. Are you referring to the recalcuating the season modifiers? Those you either manually recalc or set to auto recalc on the first day of the season. You can't recalc once the season starts so it doesn't adjust to player movement within the league. This really hurts minor league stats where a good player can tear up a league when sent down. However you can always adjust the league modifers anytime you want so let's say the HR rates are set at 4.1 and you are noticing way too many homers you can always tweak them you just can have the program do it anymore since the season started.

I'm talking about the historical recalc, where it gives you the option to "recalc ratings based on" every 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years

[andyhdz]

Ah ok hopefully someone who plays historical can help you then

[thehef]

Originally Posted by Trav876

Does anyone know how recalc works if you have guys who were in the minors in real life, but then come up to MLB in your season? Does the recalc engine use their simmed MLB stats, or would it just reset their ratings to what they were the prior year?

Neither. Recalc does not use simmed stats, and it doesn't reset ratings to the prior year.

An example, let's say that a player spent all of 1988 absolutely tearing it up in triple A, but for some reason didn't get to the majors (or barely played in the majors). In your sim you have recalc based upon current year only (1-yr recalc), so there's a decent change that he'll play in the majors and might perform well because his ratings will be based upon his excellent triple A numbers. Then let's say that in 1989, for whatever reason he had a terrible year in triple A. Recalc won't care about his 1988 sim stats, it will only look at his terrible 1989 triple A stats and give him ratings according to those.

[Trav876]

Originally Posted by thehef

Neither. Recalc does not use simmed stats, and it doesn't reset ratings to the prior year.

An example, let's say that a player spent all of 1988 absolutely tearing it up in triple A, but for some reason didn't get to the majors (or barely played in the majors). In your sim you have recalc based upon current year only (1-yr recalc), so there's a decent change that he'll play in the majors and might perform well because his ratings will be based upon his excellent triple A numbers. Then let's say that in 1989, for whatever reason he had a terrible year in triple A. Recalc won't care about his 1988 sim stats, it will only look at his terrible 1989 triple A stats and give him ratings according to those.

Oh wow, so the recalc factors in minor league stats and adjusts ratings on that too?


What about guys who, if you have 5-year recalc, don't have a 5-year window of playing ball? For example, a guy who tore it up in the minors for a few years (in real life), so maybe has decent ratings, and in your game, he gets "good" in the MLB. Is there a chance he could stay "good," or will his ratings dwindle due to not having enough years of pro ball in real life?


Do you also happen to know how that plays into the "AI evaluation of players" if you would set your ratings to be a very low percentage? In our example above with the minor leaguer who tore it up, if you had ratings set low but "this year's stats" set high, would he build up his "stars" (overall ability/performance) and thus continue to have a high chance for output the following years?