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Originally Posted by redmarkYankees
Definitely interested. I was looking at doing injuries off 1871-1900, very low 1901-1919, low 1920-1942; but was thinking of a lower ageing speed than that, maybe 1.075 (7.5% faster decline?).
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Like I said, I just let it run overnight so I didn't have the level of detail you're going to have with your sim there, but here are a few things I've found:
Jimmy Foxx has the all-time record for games played (3482) and retired at age 43. Rogers Hornsby is next and retired at 41.
Willie Mitchell (who only started 190 games IRL) was the pitcher who started the most games (780) and retired at age 42.
And I just discovered common sense...I added "Pro Years" to the view which would be much better for what we're looking for:
Bill Delancy played in 29 seasons, retiring at age 48. Double X was next with 25 seasons and as we all know, he retired at age 43, tied with some others for second oldest playing age.
So, in conclusion, I kinda dig having the settings this way (injuries and position player fatigue set to Low, batter aging speed to 1.250). The batters hang on a couple years into their 40's, there's one anomaly in 55 years who played until he was 48 (and was a catcher, at that). The pitchers capped out at 42 which is a little disappointing. My next sim will probably have the same injury settings, 1.200 batter aging, and maybe 0.9500 pitcher aging, just to see what that might do.