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My primary issue is that there's no way to tell how any of the settings used are impacting the simulations.
Experimenting for months with the "sliders of strategy" taught me two things: jack and ****. e.g. Tim Raines getting caught stealing at twice the rate in a season where I had the stealing slider tuned at 25% (in "modern settings") vs being much more successful with it tuned at 100% (in "1987 settings") ... or a Whitey Ford that I have set to the max possible "pitch around" leading the league in the least amt of walks per 9. All this *could* be caused by (extreme) variance or it could be that these settings are a sham attempt to convince players that the simulations are more deep than they actually are.
There's not even something as rudimentary as information in the game log about when various strategies are being used (infield in, outfield in, shifts, pitch around, etc, etc).
Surely the game log could tell me when the infield is in in the 9th inning and then the result of the play. Or maybe not. Sliders of strategy, with zero feedback provided to the player about their usage. LOL.
If the game wasn't useful as a way to learn some historical player names, well ... would have quit messing with it months ago. I was thinking maybe at some point I'd care about "Perfect League" -- like if I ever discovered some "strategy" that wasn't just spending the most money. Failed!
I'll include a couple of final attachments ... since so many replies here are about variation, I'll include my Luis Gonzalez (from the last PTCS). League MVP in 2042, all-star in 2043 (in low diamond), and now negative WAR in 2044 (in high gold!).
Also my 1.08 million perfect points, 3775 clubhouse points and all the player packs I'm not going to bother opening.
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