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Originally Posted by Eburaci
I recently posted some player development testing and conclusions to the OOTP reddit, but wanted to share here. Instead of rehashing everything, I'll just add the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...onclusions_in/
The basic premise is that if you start a new game with modern rosters in present day, the overall ratings of the league will quickly drop year-over-year and the distribution of different age groups will change as older players lose ratings even more quickly. The balance of ratings will shift too (e.g. pitchers become more similar in terms of ratings balance between starters and relievers).
I just wanted to share my findings and get feedback. It seems reasonable to me that even with the "realistic" ratings scale, you would want to maintain a similar level of overall ratings talent and age distribution in the league as the initial game rosters. The drop is quite dramatic, happens very quickly, and is easily verifiable too, so I assume this is a design choice. |
Thanks for putting in the work and presenting your findings, Eburaci.
To a certain percentage of us, something is clearly off with development in 26. And that really sucks because many of us put a lot of time and energy into setting up our universe with a certain expectation for logical player development that is not being met.
The way that these complaints have been handled by the Devs have been disappointing.