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Another good question for this would be what to do about age settings. For example 5 years ago this is the league leaders in OPS:
For each player I note if they were even close to the top 20 in 2012 (5 years later).
1 Alex Rodriguez NYY - Close
2 David Ortiz BOS - Yes
3 Carlos Pena TB - No
4 Magglio Ordonez DET - No
5 Jim Thome CWS - No
6 Jorge Posada NYY - No
7 Vladimir Guerrero LAA - No
8 Curtis Granderson DET - Close
9 Jack Cust OAK - No
10 B.J. Upton TB - No
11 Manny Ramirez BOS - No
12 Mike Lowell BOS - No
13 Victor Martinez CLE - Injured
14 Carlos Guillen DET - No
15 Frank Thomas TOR - No
16 Hideki Matsui NYY - No
17 Grady Sizemore CLE - No
18 Alex Rios TOR - Yes
19 Nick Markakis BAL - Close
20 Placido Polanco PHI - No
So out of those 20 guys, two guys were still in the top 20, and 3 guys were close.* I will do a sim to 2017 to see how this list compares. I think this may be the main problem, player turnover rate.
*Note that I understand player stats are different than player ratings, and if someone wants to go a little more in depth I'm all for it.
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