Quote:
Originally Posted by marc5477
You are wrong bud.
Historic and current are not what broke the game. The results would have been the same even if all fictional. The triggers that caused the game to fall apart were not the players specifically, but rather valuations by the AI on its own teams. Recall, outside of the draft, the AI does not see "historic" or "real" players, it only seed numbers. Willie Randolph could have been named Weird Al Yakovich and the results would be the same.
What historic does is give the player an edge due to knowing the players. It changed nothing in the AI behavior. Further, I never said I had recalc on so we are using "historic" very loosely here.
You can use historic just fine with stats if you turn recalc off. It is actually a load of fun that way because you get to use all the famous players but you never know what the results will be. For instance, in my current league, the best closer in all baseball is... Ben Tincup. In real life, he barely played a few seasons. Babe Ruth is never going to get near his home run record due to injuries and not getting signed the 1st time he was drafted. Ty Cobb is still playing at age 44. Jim Bottomly hit for a record .448 BA in 1924 (in a league season that averaged .238). And the single season home record is held by Akihiro Okada... an international FA who hit... 86 home runs. Yep it was nuts and no I did not have him on my team. The next closest leader that season barely had 40. Too bad he entered at age 30.
The problem is with AI valuations in stats only mode.
|
I haven't had a chance to dive into stats only yet, although I plan to start over the holidays. So I may be speaking out of turn here. But here's the thing that jumps out to me in what you're saying.
AI evaluation is fully customizable, so maybe you need to adjust those settings to stop the problem you're having. Considering there have been lengthy discussions about stats only on these boards for the past few years and nobody has ever had the problem you're having, I'm guessing that if it's not your AI evaluation settings that need to be tweaked, it's another setting that may not be right.