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This will be my last on this sim, which I let run to 2100 and will stop it there. Most people won’t get close to this distance - as others have said for the most part I think the distribution of players is pretty good once you get far enough, although I find the individual player growth/development rate annoyingly consistent/programmed. This was the first stop on this journey where the player distribution might also be a little off, especially in an expanded league (this was a new standard game sim there are 33% more teams now compared to 2024). Others will probably love that the game doesn’t see as many “elite” players.
80/80 - 10 players (9 in their 20s)
75 - 14 (9 in their 20s)
70 - 31 (18 in their 20s)
65 - 55
60 - 84
From a ratings standpoint, no one in the game is considered an 80 in Contact, Gap, Power. There are 2 80s in Eye, an 85 and an 80 in Avoid K.
For pitching there are no 80s in Stuff, Movement (one 70 is highest there), Control. There are a few 80+ rated pitches, mostly fastballs. One pitch is rated above 80, a 95 fastball on a 45/45 RP who hasn’t gotten out of AA entering his age 30 season. Editor rating on that pitch is 496. 99-101mph. Independent league signing 8 years ago. Traded once and released 3 times since. He honestly seems fine and has good results. I’d use him!
There is one IAFA player (55/55) with a 75 knuckleball who was promoted to MLB this past year after only 8 starts at AAA…at age 22. He was mostly a reliever in his rookie year.
Couple of observations / opinions:
1. I usually don’t leave automatic evolution on. There are now 40 teams in MLB (been expanding over time about 2-4 teams every 20 years. IMO the player development (number of good players) did not scale with the league size (which is why I usually don’t allow it).
2. Offensively almost every single season and career record still stands, with 3 exceptions: Career HR was surpassed in the 2085 season by a player who finished with 778 HR. Stop me if you’ve heard this before…he spent his age 17-20 seasons in the DSL. Age 21 at A ball, 20 games at A+. Age 22 starts with 21 games at AAA, then promoted to the show, hits 34 HR in 82 games. Hits 71 HR at age 23 (career high). Stays healthy enough to have a very consistently excellent/good 16 year run. Year 17 is below replacement level and he retires. Generated players also hold the 8-10 spots in the career list and are mixed in after that. They are mixed in for single season HR too.
3. The other “offensive” records that were broken were single season and career strikeouts. Others have mentioned this in other threads, but they always get obliterated. Reggie Jackson and Jim Thome are now 24 and 26 on the list and the record stands at 3494 (Guy somehow managed only 16.3 WAR over a 16 year career with 638 career HR, 9th all time - not in the HoF). Single season is now 315 and the entire list is generated players (261 is a 6 way tie for 95th most).
4. Pitching - the sim took over the games pitched in a season category. Sim also has the top games pitched career record but did not take it over. Winning percentage single season - Tanner Houck in 2029!
5. HRs allowed single season is now 65 set in 2097 (was still Blyleven at 50 until then) About half of the top 100 were in the sim. Sim has top 2 in career but similar spread to single season (about half).
6. Hits allowed/9 single season and career, k/9 single season and career, and opponents average career are all held by the same player who is in the game at the start as a minor leaguer (he is also 6th on the all time Ks list - a generated player whose graph I showed last time is 4th). I won’t spoil who that is for everyone. Top of the K/9 rate lists are dominated by the sim BUT mostly the early sim (through the 2030s) is where you find the big jumps in K rate.
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