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Originally Posted by jpeters1734
I think if you're using it to perform strategy analysis on your team, you enter cheating territory. There's a couple reason's why it's different from what real teams do.
First if you're the only one that can perform "strategy analysis", then it's an advantage.
Second, real teams have real players. They are not based on numbered ratings. OOTP is a game based on numbered ratings. Simming your game to perform analysis is the same thing as if the Yankees had a time machine that they, and only them, could use to reset the season after they play it out a few times.
If you assert that 100 different sims will end up 100 different ways, why do it in the first place? Why open yourself to that kind of scrutiny?
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I totally agree on if I'm the only one, so I'm with you there. Although I really wouldn't have had a problem if people could sim ahead themselves for a season. It's just gauging how you did in the offseason to me.
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Second, real teams have real players. They are not based on numbered ratings. OOTP is a game based on numbered ratings. Simming your game to perform analysis is the same thing as if the Yankees had a time machine that they, and only them, could use to reset the season after they play it out a few times.
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Not necessarily. Your "real" players in OOTP are the ones that are in the actual sim. Simming ahead is essentially simulating the simulation. And I wouldn't sim ahead to get a desired result, but to gauge my team, something I wouldn't have any issue with if other GM's could do the same.
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If you assert that 100 different sims will end up 100 different ways, why do it in the first place? Why open yourself to that kind of scrutiny?
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My experience is pretty fresh in my head (it happened yesterday). I actually simmed ahead just for fun to see how the team I built that offseason would do in one random sim. It didn't really occur to me that someone would go "okay.... now to sim another 100 times to see which prospects develop! MUAHAHA!". That just seemed idiotic to me, as there are much smarter ways to cheat that way that I wouldn't do
So honestly I didn't expect any scrutiny, which is why I posted about it in my leagues Slack. Little did I know that a ****storm would ensue!