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Originally Posted by macprivateer
IF the player development model is disabled, then does that mean that real stats will be the only and exclusive means to determine ratings and (more importantly) the mechanics of the game engine?
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Yes. With development turned off, only real life stats in the database will determine player ratings and ultimately their performance.
For players who had major fluctuations in their statistics from season to season, their ratings and performance also depend on your recalculation settings. By default, the game will use a 3-year calculation period based on the previous season, current season, and next season in the player's real life statistics. But you can change this to 1 year or 5 years, for example.
A 1-year recalculation means players should perform pretty closely to their stats for that season, within statistical probabilities of course. But a 3-year recalculation is commonly used to smooth out anomaly seasons and extreme differences from year to year.
As you learn the game, it's also helpful to understand that OOTP is different from every other baseball sim in that it uses league statistical totals as the prime driver of overall statistical outcomes. It does not use individual player ratings or stats to drive everything like other games do.
The best way to think of it is that OOTP takes the total number of home runs hit in a given season and then divides that among all the players in the league according to their power ratings. Results are still based on individually simulated games, but ultimately there's a top-down effect from these league totals, and it drives the eventual statistical outcomes.
The same thing applies to all league total statistics in every category.
This is what allows OOTP to generate realistic results for given historical conditions and seasons. For example, if you put George Foster or Dave Parker in the deadball era, they are not going to hit 35 home runs. They will have high power ratings and will be among the league leaders in home runs, but their home run totals will be similar to the league leaders for that given year in the deadball era.