Custom Fictional League - Development

[varlamov40]

Playing through a fictional league right now, it's still fun to say the least. However there doesn't seem to be any progression in ratings? The first 4 or 5 drafts are filled with star players and as years go by their ratings remain at 2 or 3 star and never progress any higher. Likewise older players don't decrease in rating either.

If it means anything, I've set player peaks to 50 instead of the default mid 20's.

[JeffR]

Oh, yeah, that definitely means something. Doing that will massively slow down the development rates. They won't increase normally and then stay at that level until they're around 50; instead their improvement will be stretched out over multiple decades at a very slow pace.

[varlamov40]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Oh, yeah, that definitely means something. Doing that will massively slow down the development rates. They won't increase normally and then stay at that level until they're around 50; instead their improvement will be stretched out over multiple decades at a very slow pace.

I see, do historical leagues follow the same development rates? For instance, I usually run the 50's on both and they progress and develop at a faster rate than the fictional league does.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by varlamov40

I see, do historical leagues follow the same development rates? For instance, I usually run the 50's on both and they progress and develop at a faster rate than the fictional league does.

If you have FHM development turned on, they do - historical, fictional, and modern games all run at same rates. If you're using annual recalculation, there's no development - the ratings get reset at the start of the year to (approximately) the level the player was at historically in that season.