[LD84]

I lost all faith in this franchise when I discovered many years ago that playing time in the minors has zero correlation with development.

It is very possible to have a young player get zero playing time and still develop.
Or fall apart.

Combined with random talent changes, no one is able to explain how coaching works and to what extent it works, and no one is able to explain how “development budget” works.

I am not wholly convinced that the entire development “engine” is not just pure RNG and the player has very little or maybe even no impact on how players develop.


So I cannot say that I am all that surprised by this finding.

And what is worse. The OOTPD team probably will not respond. I am not sure if it is because they do not care. But I think it may be because they themselves do not even understand how this game works.

It is now a lot of sloppy spaghetti code holding all this together and I don't think one single person fully knows how it all works.