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Originally Posted by RonCo
I'm a little out of my element in early historical simming, so treat this input with a grain of salt, but here's a pretty extensive Win Share-based study that says that deadballers (1903-1919) were pretty much done by 31-32 years old on the whole.
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And my research somes something similar, but the game seems to draw that line at 28-29. It is the sudden dropoff for so many 20 game winners, to go from staff ace to the bullpen in one Season is just not realistic when it happens so much.
The other thing here is, nearly every single Pitcher becomes a MR at the end of their careers. This just doesn't happen either.....I would rather see the AI leave them as starters for as long as they hold up. Again I don't think the development curve is the big deal here, I think it is the AI that needs to be tweaked so it doesn't just throw starters in the Pen the minute their ratings drop.