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Originally Posted by bobbycockstrong
Its not so much that they are "targeted" outright, but if all else equal, and all the other players in the league are having their X Y Z such and such season - there is no real room for improvement for your player who is doing poorly from the start (whether its mike trout or the worst player on your roster) unless the game adjusts to make one of those other players in the league start to have a much worse season because ultimately these things have to balance out to the annual league totals.
So, in this hypothetical mike trout example we keep coming back to - if Mike Trout starts the season off poorly - the only way he can improve over the course of the season is if another player declines (thus keeping the equilibrium/overall annual totals in line with where they need to be). So in essence, Mike Trout's hypothetical improvement is not necessarily based on Mike Trout's ratings, but rather on the performance of other players in the league. Or perhaps all these factors work together. But it seems theoretically IMPOSSIBLE for Mike Trout's ratings alone to improve his performance, because some other player HAS to decline in performance elsewhere. If other players performance doesnt decline, then mike trout's cant improve.
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I don't agree. If the league is running too "rich" or too "lean", adjustments are made to the "league totals" to pull everyone up or down - not players. In that scenario, Trout can get hot even if the league totals are pulled down.