There is a misunderstanding. I am not complaining about player skills declining with age. I was commenting on how a team regardless of age everyone's output just gets worse with each passing year. So within say a five year period all the players I started with regardless of age are just hitting for lower and lower average, as the pitchers are suffering from ever higher ERAs. This is not representative in any way of the real world where player results might fluctuate but not suffer a mass team based deterioration.
An example I gave was how in the old Spring Training it was not unusual to have almost every player (once again regardless of age) lose points off of their primary skill with every season. So Eddie Murray might be drafted at age 20 with great power numbers and within a short period of time (not over a long career) be reduced to wimpy power numbers. This is quite contrary to what you might see in the real world with a young player slowly building skill, peaking, then heading back down, whether over a short period of time or over twenty years.
That's what I used to experience in the older versions of OOTP and I was curious if that is still the case. So like I said I love taking historical players, redrafting them into my own team structure and then managing through the decades. I just don't want to buy OOTP 9 if it still has that old problem where player performance always just gets worse and worse from the first game onward until your team of superstars is quickly a team of washouts.
