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Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn
Yes, this is how it's supposed to work  |
Unfortunately, I just experimented with it and it didn't quite fully work as I had hoped. It worked beautifully for Hits, Doubles, Triples, Home Runs, BB, HBP, K and BABIP. Not so much with the settings below that. How do I know this? I tried locking league totals to 1984, and starting my game in 1901. Like I said those first 8 categories were fab. Pre-season predictions for batting and pitching leaders looked amazing.
However beginning with Starting Pitcher Stamina and all modifiers that reset below that, it became quite apparent that they were following 1901. Things like sac bunts were way high, and errors were extreme. I picked up on this when I looked at the pre-season predictions, and noticed a MASSIVE gap between team pitching Run Averages and Earned Run Averages. That's when I knew something was up, so I went back to the Stats & AI page and sure enough things did not look kosher outside of the eight categories that I mentioned.
It kept trying to make SP go deep, and I don't want that. I want default settings on hook, and it kept trying to pump them up. I turned off auto adjust strategy settings for a reason. If I'm playing a random debut with relievers, I want them to pitch more than a couple of innings a year. They won't with 1901 strategy settings, so I set them to 1984 and unchecked the auto-adjust boxes.
This feature is in its infancy though, so there will probably be bugs. I also understand that there is no way in hell that a fix can make it into today's official release. That would be pie in the sky. All I ask is that you take a look at it when everything's calmed down a bit, and test it the way I did. I input 1984 into the Select Year the day before Opening Day. Those modifiers looked great. Then when it went to do the pre-season predictions, that's when the separation happened. The eight categories stayed on reasonable 1984 modifiers, but the others seemed to go 1901. Would you like me to report in bug reports? I'm not sure if it's a bug or if I did something wrong because this feature is so new.