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Originally Posted by fredbeene
However, the imported season you start with will never have peak season potential ratings for players over 29.
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This is not true. You can set player potentials to be based on the peak seasons of their careers or their remaining peak seasons, and those should be applied, although I only use remaining peak seasons, so I can't verify how it works if you base it on peak seasons of a player's entire career.
For example, I have a 1950 test game where all the player ratings were just created, using remaining peak seasons. When using the player editor to look at Joe Dobson, a starter for the Red Sox who is 33 years old, his potential ratings are significantly higher than his current ratings. They're clearly based on his future 1952 season, when he had his best ERA and WHIP of his career.
Similarly, Ellis Kinder, another starter on the same team, who is age 35, has potentials that are generally higher than his current ratings. They're nowhere as much higher as I would expect based on his remaining peak seasons. But those seasons are when he converted to a reliever, so maybe OOTP is evaluating the stats a bit differently. Or maybe it's looking at multiple remaining peak seasons, and they're balancing out the one extremely strong year that he had during that range. Either way, his best peak season is yet to come in his real life stats, so it makes sense that his potential ratings are higher than the current, and that's what they are.