I'm sure many of us play with neutralized stats. When you and Garlon created the original neutralized stats database, you had many devotees and enthusiastic neutralized stats players following along or have you forgotten?
They seem to have mostly disappeared. Did we suddenly decide we preferred to watch Ted Williams become a shell of his usual beastly self from 1943-1945 and 1952-1953 because his gaps in those seasons don't get filled in when using Real Stats like they do when using Neutralized Stats? I highly doubt it.
Where I may be alone is that I may be the only one who pokes around in the Real Life Stats > Neutralized Batting, Pitching and Fielding stat tabs of players entering my games via the draft, looking for gaps and errors but I'm far from the only one who plays the game this way. I think most Neutralized Stats players just hit the option in the game setup, and assume that everything will work tickety boo and don't give it a second thought as to whether or not the database actually has stats for the seasons they're interested in playing. I'm sure anyone who plays with Neutralized Stats would be quite upset to learn that guys like Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa, Corey Seager, Trevor Story, Michael Fulmer etc are gonna be...well...neutered in their Neutralized Stats games because there are no Neutralized Stats to go off of for the majority of their (so far) short careers.
I'll get on the pre-2016 Neutralized Stats as soon as I can. Have to gather together all the guys who I deleted in 16 and brought in Spritze database replacements for because the Spritzeified guys were done how they should have been done and made excellent replacements. In the back of my mind, I do wonder if I'm wasting my time though, because it sounds like a design decision has been made to stop making Neutralized Stats part of the game. I know that BB-Ref's Neutralized Stats function is not working right now, so that may be a part of it.
OOTP does not use this at all I understand it's very time consuming and it may have been decided that because Neutralized Stats and Real Historical Minor Leagues are incompatible that it's time to let Neutralized Stats go the way of the dodo.
Naw, I just did not have the time Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
Please understand that this is not a shot against you. I respect and admire everything that you have put into OOTP over the years (and have repeatedly expressed that in the past and will continue to do so), and if I had 1/1000th of your database skills, I'd be doing all I could do to save this feature. Alas, I don't. So I'll have to stick to reporting pre-2016 gaps and errors, and hope that this feature stays around and continues to save Mr. Williams (and other not so prominent players and their gaps) from his exile to the bench for five seasons of the 22 season duration of his career.
