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Originally Posted by pstrickert
I'm simply exasperated that the results are all over the map. (In that case, what good is a historical league? The players may as well be entirely fictional if they have no semblance to their historical counterparts.)
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The results are variable because OOTP is open-ended. Each time you sim a game, the program is essentially flipping coins to determine the outcome of each game event based on the player ratings and other factors. You can't really expect those coin flips to produce the same results each time since it's a random process. But the bigger the sample size, the more likely the results will reflect the ratings. A single season is, in this case, too small a sample size to smooth out all the random variables, so that's likely why you get the differences in each run through of a season.
Of course, even decades-long historical sims won't produce the exact same results each time. But then, that's the point of OOTP, it's a career sim, it's open-ended, it isn't intended to repeat the exact same results every single time. That's not the design intent.
That the game generates results which mimic quite reasonably the numbers over the length of a player's career as well as it does is quite an achievement.