[OldFatGuy]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

I don't understand shorthand sometimes. What are LTM's?

League Total's Modifiers

Originally Posted by 68pirate

I've been playing the game for a couple of months now and love it. I've already ordered 9 and am excited to hear about the improvements to historicals, which is my preferred way to play. By the way, i'm currently using version 8.0.0.13.
My question is this. If I have recalc set to 1 year, shouldn't player ratings change every year based on that player's previous year's real life stats? I also have my modifiers set to no reductions for limited at bats or innings pitched. In other words, if a player hit .400 in 10 real life at bats I want him to be created to have a contact rating enabling him to hit close to .400.
Via the player editor, using the "resulting stats" section, I have an example player for you, 1988 Benny Distefano.
In real life in 1988, he hit .345/.394/.621. His ratings if I import him from Lahman, on a 20-80 scale, are 75-25-55-45 (contact-gap-hr-eye), which result in a projected line of .331/.374/.440. Even worse, his rating in a continuous sim started in 1984, with recalc of one year, are 40-35-30-35, which result in a projected line of .190/.232/.244. Neither one of these projections are close enough to his real life stats, although the Lahman import is reasonable with the exception of slugging.
Is there no way, without manually editing the ratings myself, to have a player advance through a continuous sim and have his abilities change every offseason to reasonably recreate his real life seasons and career?
Incidentally, I don't use coaches, scouts, morale, randomness, or any other setting which may affect performance.
I know this was kinda long-winded...thanks for listening.

Keith

I think the problem here may be that you are anticipating the ratings change each year based on the PREVIOUS year's RL stats, whereas I think, am I'm not sure, the program recalcs based on the player's NEXT year's RL stats. Could this explain what you're seeing???