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Originally Posted by RoiDanton

Hey all,

as I've simmed about 6 or 7 leagues each around 10 seasons in for this version so far, testing both aging and dev factors, I thought I'd chime in.

My overall impression is similar to yours, Lukas, I feel like players seem to get that development bump needed to reach the majors mostly at age 24/25 or later. It may be hampering highschool/sub 20-age players when they become professional more than college prospects in terms of development, maybe due to them underperforming in the minors due to their lacking development speed, at least thats the impression I've gotten.

I've done leagues with 1 devspeed, 1.1, 1.25 and 1.5, to see if increasing that could help and it seems to slightly at least, but probably not enough. In the save with 1.5 dev (also 200 TCR) that's before the roster expansion in the 2033 season, there is currently 84 players below the age of 24 on a MLB roster (14 of these are 22 and 8 are 21). Checking for an overall above 40 leaves me with 79 players (44 pitchers, 36 batters; 1 two-way player). 14 22 year olds and 3 21 year olds. All 21s are pitchers.

For the save that's everything completely out of the box so 1 dev etc, I have 74 players. Filtering for those with an overall above 40 only, to see those of actual majors quality it is down to 42 (28 pitchers, 15 batters; 1 is a two-way player). 11 of these are 22 and 1 is 21 years old.

For anyone checking this I'd recommend a checkpoint before the roster expansion/offseason otherwise the list will have all the guys on the secondary roster that never actually played an at-bat in the majors.

I hope this helps you, Lukas, but I believe in general your assessment is right. Devspeed seems a bit too slow on base settings and hitters are slower than pitchers. Personally I cannot assess for players having no development at all however, I did see some cases of 17/18 year olds with 80 potential never really making it and then getting downgraded to below 50 potential in their age 26/27 seasons but I'd just consider those normal busts, not a game fault.

Did increasing Dev speed make development rate similiar to previous versions?
Thanks