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Originally Posted by ALB123
I think a good suggestion to get a better handle on this would be to play a historical setup starting just before your favorite period in baseball. If you want a totally alternate reality when compared to real life, enable the OOTP Development Engine - make sure player rating yearly recall is disabled. This way you know the Development Engine is in total control. Then go play some seasons, enough to have a few drafts so you can see pre-draft player ratings and then keep an eye on their development.
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What I have been toying with, and partly why I was wondering all of this, is historical transactions & play with no recalc. It’s kind of cool to, like you said, have an “alternate reality“ where different players pan out in different ways from all the minor-league guys that I remember from over time.
But that’s where I was wondering if it was basically just random on how their ratings develop (if you don’t recalc, that is, nor have a player development budget- which you don’t in historical transactions), or if for example doing things to help them succeed, could then possibly boost their ratings/potential or at least bridge the overall to the potential.
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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
Yes, that's probably a fair way to think of it. For example, if you spend more money on your player development budget, this can improve the chances your younger players will reach or exceed their potential and do so more quickly. Here's a quote from the manual page I linked:
One of the Player Development pages from the OOTP 21 manual explains a number of other factors than can effect player development, including coaching/management, playing time, player potential and individual qualities, age, level of challenge/competition, injuries, spring training, chance, and your player development modifiers. |
Ah, that reading from the player development part of the manual was very helpful. Thanks!
Looks like there are definitely things you can do (or not do) to affect how a player develops