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Originally Posted by Painmantle
Another thing is there are 2 or 3 rookie teams for each franchise, the transactions were talking about here aren't call up's in general they are nothing more than sideways movement to another rookie league team. For all we know these could very well be (as far as ootp is concerned) nothing more than movement to keep the appropriate players at all positions or just a change of scenery for the player. Sometimes that's all they need to give them a kick in the pants and start producing.
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One more thing... In game terms, I think that those kinds of lateral moves might be a see-saw effect. The OOTP algorithm looks at 2 rookie league teams that are more or less the same, but one has a slight deficit in starting pitching relative to the other one. So OOTP moves pitcher X, who has abilities that add up to the correct amount, to the weaker team.
The next time OOTP does its check, the original stronger team is now slightly weaker because Pitcher X is on the other side of the scale... so it moves him back...
Even the Rookie to A promotions might work like that. Player A is
barely over the border of being good enough to get promoted. So the game promotes him. He plays one game and goes 0 for 4. The algorithm part of the game factors that in and now, he's not quite good enough to be at the higher level, and he gets moved back down.
Just a theory of course - I have no idea how the code works.