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Pelican · 07-13-2023, 10:12 AM

As to the last question, I can help. Going in, you’ll need to choose whether your goal is to replay historical seasons, with rosters, lineups, injuries, drafts, trades, missed seasons as they were, recalculating ratings each year based on actual statistics. Or, do you want to start at a historical point, but allow player development with “talent change randomness” set high, making your own trades, setting rosters and lineups, real injuries and missed seasons toggled off, and no annual recalc based on real stats. In other words, do you want to duplicate as much as possible the real seasons, or do you want to use history as a point of departure, and ask “what if” things had developed differently.

I’m partial to the latter option, the “what if”. I figure the actual seasons have already been played, I don’t need to do that again (and OOTP set up properly should yield results very close to IRL). I’d rather see how things could have changed, thanks to my intervention. For example, I don’t like the rich team and poor team inequality, so I give small market teams more generous owners, impose a hard salary cap, and a spending floor. This tends to yield much more competitive pennant races. And for the late 90’s era you mention, I would probably dial back HR to reduce the impact of PED’s.

No disrespect meant to those “replay” folks. It’s a completely valid way to play the game. And, if you have a team in mind you want to run, you can leave everything as is, except for your trades and rosters and lineups and strategic decisions. Starting from exactly the same place, could you have done better? That’s a real challenge. Most folks who report in these forums seem to take expansion or small market teams, and try a makeover, with some benefit of hindsight, I’m sure.

So, not simple. Lots of changes and settings to think about. Plenty of advice available here as to those choices. As you will hear, set it up and then run a test, saving and backing up, in case you want to start over with refined settings, closer to your goal.

07-13-2023, 10:12 AM	#3
Pelican Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Wilmington, Delaware Posts: 2,999	As to the last question, I can help. Going in, you’ll need to choose whether your goal is to replay historical seasons, with rosters, lineups, injuries, drafts, trades, missed seasons as they were, recalculating ratings each year based on actual statistics. Or, do you want to start at a historical point, but allow player development with “talent change randomness” set high, making your own trades, setting rosters and lineups, real injuries and missed seasons toggled off, and no annual recalc based on real stats. In other words, do you want to duplicate as much as possible the real seasons, or do you want to use history as a point of departure, and ask “what if” things had developed differently. I’m partial to the latter option, the “what if”. I figure the actual seasons have already been played, I don’t need to do that again (and OOTP set up properly should yield results very close to IRL). I’d rather see how things could have changed, thanks to my intervention. For example, I don’t like the rich team and poor team inequality, so I give small market teams more generous owners, impose a hard salary cap, and a spending floor. This tends to yield much more competitive pennant races. And for the late 90’s era you mention, I would probably dial back HR to reduce the impact of PED’s. No disrespect meant to those “replay” folks. It’s a completely valid way to play the game. And, if you have a team in mind you want to run, you can leave everything as is, except for your trades and rosters and lineups and strategic decisions. Starting from exactly the same place, could you have done better? That’s a real challenge. Most folks who report in these forums seem to take expansion or small market teams, and try a makeover, with some benefit of hindsight, I’m sure. So, not simple. Lots of changes and settings to think about. Plenty of advice available here as to those choices. As you will hear, set it up and then run a test, saving and backing up, in case you want to start over with refined settings, closer to your goal. __________________ Pelican OOTP 2020-? ”Hard to believe, Harry.” Last edited by Pelican; 07-13-2023 at 10:15 AM.