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Originally Posted by Brad K
My impression of recalc was it was an on or off thing, either you locked the game into recalc or into career development. Then I saw some posts about running it every three years of so. I've always played on career development.
I considered recalc as letting me know what was coming with while not 100% certainly at least in a general range and I don't want that. OTOH, with career development - and this is anecdotal and may be more evident because they are stars - I find star players with long productive careers seldom do that with career development set.
But yet another OTOH, some very short career players have been productive for ten years or more. Again, anecdotal, it seems career development lets shot career players do well longer but caps everyone at not doing well after age 32 or so.
Now maybe these anecdotal impressions are wrong, but assuming they're somewhere close to right, how would me using recalc every few years affect the situation?
1. It seems it would make it more likely that a player with a long productive career will have one in the game. But I don't want a guarantee. I just want a situation where it happens much of the time instead of (non statistical evaluation) never.
2. What happens to players who had productive careers cut short in five years due to injury? I kind of like career development because it often lets guys like this play ten years of so.
What I'd like is a situation where guys who had their best years when they were "old" have a chance to do that but at the same time not hold short career guys who lost out due to severe injury to always stop producing even absent injury in the game.
Maybe its impossible....
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You could try recalc with player development on. I use 3-year double weighted recalc (though I'm tempted to use 5-year double weighted recalc following an exchange I had with Garlon). I use the default settings for player development. I would imagine making it three or five years would make a player's career progression less predictable for you, but not 100% sure on that. With this setting, Ken Griffey Jr. was actually outplayed by his pops in my random debut league, and Jim Palmer was nowhere near the RL Jim Palmer. Most guys play out as you'd expect, but you do get some surprises.