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The game needs to stop underrating old players
Ex: It's 1998. Orel Hershiser is pitching for Cleveland at age 38.
Last year he went 16-6 in 26 starts with 3.87 ERA & 111 strikeouts, 103 ERA+
This year, Orel's real life stats include
a 15-9 W-L in 33 starts, 4.24 ERA, 125 strikeouts, 94 ERA+
OSA Scouting Report Summary:
"This guy must be a con artist, since he somehow fooled scouts into thinking he has talent."
STUFF: "Pedestrian stuff..." etc
Ratings:
mediocre stuff (yellow)
weak movement (red) 0.9 HR/9 in real life for this year
mediocre control (yellow) 2.5 BB/9 in real life for this year
The underrating of older players is a default standard in OOTP and always has been one of the weakest elements of the game. You can't just assume that all older players are weak.
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"The use of defensive shifts has exploded in Major League Baseball -- a 440-percent increase just since 2010, according to Baseball Info Solutions. So increasingly, defenses are judged not just by their personnel but how that personnel is specifically deployed, pitch by pitch."
--Anthony Castrovince, Sports on Earth
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