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With OOTP, you'll get very different results, unless you're playing historical with all the settings set up the right way and what not. Some players have their ratings increase or decrease, or maybe they're traded to a team that plays in a ballpark that's very kind to their skillset, or maybe they just outplay their ratings. There is never a guarantee that a great player will do great in OOTP. In fact, I just recently signed a big free agent to a 2 year, $40 million deal, and he hit about .250 with 15 homers in his first season with my team, so I thought, 'I'm not keeping him.' I traded him and his next season he went back to his usual ways, hitting over .300 and hitting over 25 home runs. With the ratings, you get a general idea of how well a player should perform, but it doesn't work that way plenty of times in the game, much like real life (who thought Mourneau, and not a certain teammate of his, would be leading the AL in batting so far?)