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Originally Posted by David Watts
Folks, please go look at that Andre Ethier screenshot.
Over the first 5 years of Ethier's real life career he went 722-2481. .
Over his first 5 OOTP years he goes 1118-3136
So he had 655 more OOTP at bats. He had 396 more hits.
Distribution is clearly an issue, but creating super heroes is just as big an issue. A .300 hitter over 5 real playing years, becomes a .360 hitter in OOTP.
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I would guess this is in part somehow a user settings/user error thing, because there's clearly a correlation between a guy having an unusually good year in game and then following it up with more good years.
If it was purely a distribution issue, you wouldn't necessarily see the correlation of one good year in-game leading to more good years like with the Shane Mack or Andre Ethier screenshots. You'd see guys having too good years, but it would vary from year to year as to which guys had those extra good years. It wouldn't be the same guys all the time.
So I think there's something about your settings that means you're not strictly using the base historical recalc but the development engine is somehow getting involved.
Now that's not to say there isn't a problem with distribution, Markus has already fixed a couple things he found and we'll take a harder look at that during beta as well.
Still, I think there's more going on here than just a distribution issue, unless everyone who had better historical season than Ethier or Mack are also putting up better stats than they are in-game, which it doesn't sound like is the case.