[ctorg]

Originally Posted by BaseballMan

Ctorg,

It was MLEs i ment not PCMs.

I used PCMs because their ability to affect ratings has been shown and well-documented, while I'm still finding a lot of uncertainty about exactly what MLEs do. Since you're using a database to generate the real players, either way the MLEs and PCMs will only affect the extra fictional players you add to the league.

I also forgot to disable player development
so i am strted another test season. This time set the MLEs to .65 for all levels. BTW does the Historical Modifier And Totals Options do anything if you check it in Minor League settings? Does it create players more accurately related in comparison to historical players?

I think that's the idea. I haven't played around with it much, though.

Almost forgot to run the draft for historical players before adding fictional players to the minor leagues. I wonder if adding fictional players to the minor leagues teams after the major league rookie draft each year would mess up the stats for the fictional players already in the league. Otherwise i might as well not use minor leagues and go back to ghost players. But i prfer fictional players because i can actually see who a historical player may have had to compete against to stay in the Majors. I think of the fictional players as the minor league players nobody has heard of. I guess i want the historical players to dominate the Major leagues and the fictional to dominate the Minor Leagues.

I'm guessing that there's an optimal MLE or PCM - maybe around .65, actually - that will make it so that fictional players rarely show up in the majors but do well enough in the minors to make them realistic.