[Spanish Lefty]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

Good post! I only question one setting...I don't think you need trading difficulty in very hard...I think you could go with average or hard with this AI

I haven't tried average or hard yet in this version, but perhaps it doesn't differ that much. I tried very easy to make myself familiar with the changes and it was more or less the same as last year.

Anyway, as I said, with these settings and very hard, the trading AI has still to be better.

Originally Posted by highandoutside

Thanks for the post Spanish Lefty. Would you mind explaining your ageing setting?

If you leave aging settings on default... Rookies will be about 24 and will go as low as 22. We can see that is not true nowadays, with players being promoted younger. With "1.300 development speed" you get a bunch with 22-23, a few with 21 and one 20-year player every now and then (Correa, Osuna, Rougned Odor, Bryce... types).

With "aging speed" you have to be much more aggresive. If you leave it with the default setting, David Ortiz and A-Rod are pieces of meat immediately. After running several 30-year simulations, .310 was the most fair approximation (always with high frequency injuries). You get many real situations:

- Average player, durable or iron man, getting to 38-40
- Average player, fragile or wrecked, getting to 32 years, then struggling through the minors with some ML appearances
- Future hall of famers when 30, struggling with injuries, retiring at 35 and not becoming HOFers.
- Very good players, durable or ironman getting to 42-43... (rare, but possible)
... etc.

In the same 30-year simulations, the player which retired the oldest was Trout with 44. Most of the players still retire at 36-38.

The game becomes more real. With the default setting and high injuries everybody retires at age 38-39 MAX and there are no +4 WAR players over 32-33 years.

Originally Posted by Ron.

I don't know about changing player aging this year. I've changed it in the past because it was virtually impossible to get historic career numbers on default settings. Now it seems like hitters are much more consistent year-to-year. I've got 5 active players with more than 500 HR in 2030 and Rowdy Tellez has a legitimate chance to break the all time record.

Which aging speed did you put? Anyway, having 5 active players over 500HR isn't that rare if the homerun factor which changes from year to year has been over 1.000. And there is nearly always someone in real life with that chance to break the all-time record. A-Rod has 687 HR with 40. Barry Bonds had 703... He probably won't break it, but still