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Originally Posted by Elendil
It's a well-known problem that OOTP doesn't do well with the first year in a sim (some testers have been trying, to little avail, to get this changed - perhaps it can't be for some reasons unclear to me). I bet if you simmed 1981 and then 1982 the 1982 results would be much closer.
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I've heard that before. Here's the concern, though: Let's say the ratings for individual players for that first year in a sim may not be reliable. Even so, wouldn't you expect there to be some consistency from one sim to the next? If Pete Vuckovich is rated a 1-star pitcher, shouldn't his season stats look like the stats of a 1-star pitcher? Sometimes, they do (4-10, 4.42). Other times, they look more like a 4-star or 5-star pitcher (16-7, 2.68). Should Robin Yount, a 5-star player, hit .289 in one sim and .360 the next? Let's say I sim 1981 and then 1982. If Robin Yount then receives a 5-star rating for the 1982 season (as he likely would!), why should I not expect his BA to be .289? Or .360? Why should I expect it to be closer to his RL BA of .331?