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Originally posted by Henry
There's a few more studies around that have shown that "most" players, do in fact lose their abilities before they retire. a "few" quit before then - and this is mirrored in OOTP to about the right level. 100 year simulations will bring about the right number as what happened in real life.
Henry
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Yeah. As I said, when I looked into this I was expecting one result, but came up with something entirely different. Despite what we might think, in real life most guys play until the bitter end. And, upon further thought, it is just common sense. Think about an average, non-superstar ballplayer on the back side of his career. He's still a fairly young adult: 32-37 years old. He has never held a job besides playing baseball, has made $300K-$2M for the last 5-10 years, but he never finished (or maybe even went to) college and if he can't land a job as a coach somewhere, he'll be lucky to make $50K outside of baseball. He's probably put enough away to put those three young kids through college, but he (and his wife) would sure like a little more cash stored away to maintain the standard of living to which they've grown accustomed--and they hope to be around at least another 40 years or so! As long as someone--anyone--will pay him the major league minimum to ride the pine, he's likely to keep playing.
Now, I think there's still room for improvement--specifically those drop-off-the-table veterans in the middle of the season. I'd like to see most of the big ratings drops of veterans happen between seasons, and not be shown immediately (i.e.--his stats drop off before his ratings do.)