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Originally Posted by Dogzilla
Looking at baseball-reference.com, it's amazing to me how many average to good players decline and retire at age 32-35. I guess if they start declining even a little, they can be replaced by a 23-year-old making the league minimum.
But there are a lot of exceptions, and I hope the programmers take this into account--some players are still improving in their early 30's, and some see no significant decline until much later.
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Definitely need to fix the "cliff". And definitely need to give each player their own "aging curve". I think even Microsoft Baseball advertised this about their franchise engine.
The fact that 36-year-olds on average perform worse than 34-year-olds doesn't mean they should all drop off a cliff at the same time. Roger Clemens and Julio Franco are real people. The most frustrating thing about "the cliff" is importing a league like 1998 and watching Roger dwindle to nothingness instead of at least having a shot at pitching for 8 more great seasons.