Results:
1. Career arcs are well modeled in OOTP, but they could be improved
....A: Development is too slow; might be because a lack of variety in development precludes really young players from being in the bigs
....B: Onset point of regression should be more varried
2. Aging and development modifiers have little or no effect
I originally posted this in the main forum. I'm not sure if that is the proper place, so I figured I'd repost here. Apologies if I'm wrong.
Methodology:
1. 24 team league fictional league w 162 game schedule
2. 3-tier minors (rookie level dropped)
3. tests conducted by varrying aging and development modifiers
4. each test was loaded from the same quicksave
5. each test simmed 25 seasons
6. results presented are an average of seasons 16-20 (i.e. "steady state")
7. injuries set to "normal"
8. results examined by distribution of the following by player age:
....A: AB for batters
....B: IP for pitchers
....C: GS for pitchers
Supporting documentation:
http://rapidshare.de/files/25464670/...mmary.xls.html