[Syd Thrift]

I feel like TCR is a thing that hits mainly established players. I have my league set to 120 and I see much the same thing that you do: highly touted draft picks usually come through, but established stars can suddenly forget how to hit HRs or whatever. I actually prefer that (I also have aging rather flattened out) but I don’t know if it’s truly “realistic” or not.

In the history of the game I think draft picks used to be a lot more random but people complained and now it’s not. ISTR there being an actual season or two where people were like “it’s a complete crapshoot and I hate it!”, ignoring, I guess, the fact that the actual draft is a bit of a crapshoot. It’s a little like the injury system: I remember people hated it when they were first goosed up to modern day levels and many still play with the “OOTP Classic” settings.