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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
This +1000. That is the point. It is what makes it real. This is why I just can't even play Front Office Football. It is just a freeking spreadsheet. Why not play the games in Excel and be done with the rest? There is more to baseball than spreadsheet stats. That is all there is to it.
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You are confusing unknown with random.
Yes, there are lots of random parts of baseball. That's why we play the games, and it's why your "Excel" comment is sort of meaningless.
That doesn't mean the game should be full of made-up, unquantifiable nonsense. Should Markus add code to change the results of games based on phases of the moon? Of course not, because we can all agree that they have nothing to do with actual baseball results.
So then the question is, does "rust" actually exist and does it affect player performance in a material way? I don't think -- or at least, I cannot find with 30 seconds of googling -- that anyone has done an in-depth study on this, so we're left with anecdotal evidence. Anecdotal evidence is awful, as a rule.
Stats are just for measuring and (in some cases) trying to predict what actually happens. A game based on stats is not automatically dry. In fact, I'd argue this is a significant difference between OOTP and, say, DMB: OOTP sims a world, and there's plenty of random variation bundled in so that you CAN'T just "run a spreadsheet."
You don't need to add made-up mysticism.