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Old 03-08-2019, 01:29 PM   #6
pappyzan
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Originally Posted by max venerabel View Post
I've noticed that a handful of players on my team each year seem to be in year long slumps, playing well below their career average. And, conversely, a few each year play better than expected.

The likelihood of this being random seems rather small, since ratings for PP players are static and landing six (for instance) month long slumps in a row would be statistically unlikely. I'm wondering if there may be a pre-season dice roll of some sort that prompts good or bad seasons for players.

If this is the case, it would make a lot of sense to keep a strong reserve roster, identify slumping players a quarter of the way into the season and get them off the field.

Not a strategy I've personally employed much, but I often look back at the season's individual stats on a Sunday and wish I had.

Anyone put any thought into it?
I doubt there's any sort of hidden variable involved at all. Compare PT to playing the actual OOTP game - in OOTP if you have a 5 star player, that player will more or less have a great year, year in and year out. One reason for that is there are fewer 5 star players in your typical OOTP league, so that player is going to have a more dominant year than most other players in the league.

Take that same 5 star player and place him in a PT perfect league, ours for instance. That player isn't going to have a great year every year because nearly every single player in the league is a 5 star player. Something's gotta give somewhere, all PT perfect league pitchers can't have a great year along with all PT perfect league batters also having a great year. It's just not possible.

At 77 years old and as wise/knowledgeable as he is, my dad is the king of not understanding this concept. Take any NFL ballgame on TV, every breath he says something like this, "I can't believe the receiver didn't make that catch, the defender barely touched him, he should've caught it and scored a touchdown. They're making millions of dollars to make that catch." He doesn't get/care that the defenders are also making millions of dollars to make sure that same receiver doesn't make the catch or score a touchdown.

Every card can't have a great season every season when each card on all 30 teams is basically the equivalent of an OOTP 5 star player.
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