[macprivateer]

VERY new to the game, just been looking at the manual as well as posts here trying to understand things better before I jump into it ( which will be running historical simulations). I have some questions since I don't quite understand the manual when it talks about Ratings and how they are “created” for games such as historical simulations.

Manual states that “Players' current and potential ratings change over the course of a season or a career, according to OOTP's player development model.”

My first question is how much are ratings “built” from the actual stats players achieved? For example, are the stats for say Catfish Hunter truly representative of his 1976 stats for the Yankees in 1976? And how close to those would the game do in an accurate replay of 1976? (I come from an APBA background so replay accuracy is important to me)

My next question is about how those ratings change over time. For example, say that if I’m looking to simulate from the 1976 season onward. I WOULD like the players to perform as they have done in real life each year (i.e., they’re “real” stats each year or in OOTP universe they’re “real” ratings), should I be disabling the player development?


Let me restate this with another example, I am looking for the individual players to perform similarly to their historical stats were for each year, so again starting in say 1976 I want to see Ron Guidry become the pitcher he was in 1978 and Jim Rice to be the player he was, etc.