Re-Calc or Not to Re-Calc

[Larryk007]

Fictional long sim with auto re-calc on for the past 8 season, now I am thinking of no re-calc. What are the downsides? Players with 80 homeruns and pitchers with 35 wins?
But better performance and development of players?

[rwd59]

Biggest difference you will find with recalc turned off is that players may not turn out as they did in real life. Babe Ruth may turn out to be a bum and someone you never heard of may become a superstar. How likely that is to happen depends alot on the talent change randomness you choose. A very low number means that players are more likely to perform as they did in real life but it is still possible they may not reach the levels they did in real life. I personally prefer to play that way.

Just saw you said fictional. Not sure what recalc does with fictional players in the first place. I thought that was something designed for historical players.

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by rwd59

Biggest difference you will find with recalc turned off is that players may not turn out as they did in real life. Babe Ruth may turn out to be a bum and someone you never heard of may become a superstar. How likely that is to happen depends alot on the talent change randomness you choose. A very low number means that players are more likely to perform as they did in real life but it is still possible they may not reach the levels they did in real life. I personally prefer to play that way.

Just saw you said fictional. Not sure what recalc does with fictional players in the first place. I thought that was something designed for historical players.

Recalc does not exist with fictional players, but the OP may be talking about auto-calc

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by David Watts

Recalc does not exist with fictional players, but the OP may be talking about auto-calc

Assuming you are correct...

OP, auto calc of modifiers forces a league to produce close to historical output for the year regardless of talent. It takes the preset modifiers and runs test sims of the league and adjusts the player's output to achieve league output close to historical. Preset modifiers adjust according to historic trends without testing.

I have a save with historical with full minors, recalc on, development on, TCR 50, and retire according to history off. It is highly likely that despite having historical players the talent in this save does not match historical. I changed to precalc modifiers a few season ago and am happy with it.

Stolen bases are way too high but they're not really under control with auto calc either. I may manually adjust the that modifier for next season. But I'm not concerned about SB being way too high because at 63% success rate they are pretty close to scoring neutral.

There are other variations that show in yellow on the accuracy screen but those are small enough that an explanation of being the result of talent being different is plausible. I've run 3 or 4 seasons and don't have anybody hitting 80 HRS or .400. I'm in 1972.

[Larryk007]

What I am seeing is that star fictional player with 75 Power and 40+ homeruns in the 1990, 2 years later is hitting 20 homeruns, same scouting, same almost everything, team park etc.
The early nineties were still low in homeruns, so I am thinking auto-recalc looks at the league and adjusts homeruns to fit the number of plus power players. My power hitter will not hit 40 again until there are maybe less power players in the league, I think that is my question(?) or is that how it works?

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by Larryk007

What I am seeing is that star fictional player with 75 Power and 40+ homeruns in the 1990, 2 years later is hitting 20 homeruns, same scouting, same almost everything, team park etc.
The early nineties were still low in homeruns, so I am thinking auto-recalc looks at the league and adjusts homeruns to fit the number of plus power players. My power hitter will not hit 40 again until there are maybe less power players in the league, I think that is my question(?) or is that how it works?

That degree of variation is possible due to the randomness in the game. However you are correct that with more players than historical rated high in power auto calc will cut down each player's performance so the league totals are "right". But they're not right in relation to the talent.