[NoOne]

even though you don't stick to a baseline statistical environment, you did shed some light based on your description of midseason imports, it sounds like they stay at the same levels.

---- side note

auto-calc is imprecise - with intent and purpose...empirically. i.e. they made it that way. it's very essense is purposefully untrustworthy, lol.

i'm very happy with the results of the game. Because of my preference on LTM to remain static, when i see a 90power in 2016 i know it's the same as a 90 power in year 10,000,000, ceterus paribus.

without static LTM, that is not true. if anyone reads that as "they will have the same results", you need to re-read until you do not get that impression.

changing ltm is akin to changing somethign tangible in nature, like gravity, or something like equipment or the mound (alimunum would cause a huge difference, for example). some tangible cause should be the underlying reason for an LTM change. Ratings determing hits, 2b, hr etc... as far as causality... not ltm. that merely shifts results left/right on axis and ratios of various resutls that are tied to together (2b:3b:hr as one example).

my way just allows randomness and modeled factors to do their magic and be comparable year-to-year (the latter part is what you get from static ltm... in any year you can always achieve that with any set of LTM your heart desires).

effort? zero.. 1-click spreadsheet will crunch any number of years i export. matter of seconds to do it... however when a new version comes out, i don'thave multiple leagues... so, this is all an effort to avoid a short test run to see if stats shift wildly.