[bigMatt]

Originally Posted by bigMatt

My ignorance will show with this question - how does turning potential off actually affect the player's future performance? Or is it merely a predictor of future performance?

I've been playing sim games forever - mostly strat-o-matic but some of the others as well - and have trouble readjusting my understanding of OOTP. In historical SOM leagues, I would draft with an eye toward a particular season. So, for instance, if I had several guys I knew would peak in, say, '65, I'd tailor my draft strategy to stock up for that season.

OOTP evidently doesn't work that way. I'll have guys who I bring up on their appointed destiny season, only to see them crash and burn. Then there will be the Bud Zipfels of this world that go all Triple Crown some year, when the dude never did much of squat his entire REAL career.

In a way, I really like this, as it makes the game somewhat unpredicatable. But I'd like to understand the phenomena better. My scouts, even if I edit them to be perfect across the board, still give me intel that is spotty at best.

I use the recalc function, which just screws with my head more - since Bud Zipfel or Don Dillard will hit .300 with 30 homers one year, and be someone's castoff the next. Maybe realistic, but not too much so, in that they don't even get ABs after their stellar previous year.

Have posed the same conundrums in several areas, but have yet to really get a satisfactory answer.

Perhaps because no such answer exists?