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Originally Posted by sovereignstar
Is it common for Markus to monkey with the modifiers in patches? Rather, are these still good alternate modifiers to use with v9.1?
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I ran an overnight sim using the new patch.I don't see anything so far to indicate that these aren't still valid. If there are changes in this area, they are small. From having see the betas, the only change I know of that would affect this significantly might be:
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General player development improvements
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Markus didn't mention specifics here, but I do know that the Stuff decline was softened for pitchers. I don't get the impression, though, that he changed the overall decline rate. I don't have a 30-page RonCo-style report to verify it, but a quick check shows that the average age of my 100-year old 9.1.0 NABA league using RonCo modifiers is 29.11. Keeping in mind that my league does not use the DH, it should mirror the NL in terms of player age. The NL average from 2004 to date appears to be 29.14. Looking at hitters and pitchers independently, pitchers may be a hair too old and hitters a hair too young, but in both cases, we're talking within .2 years from the real-life average.
Bottom line: it's close enough that I'm going to continue using these same modifiers in my personal league until such time as Ron endeavors to re-run his study. And if he doesn't, I'll be perfectly fine using these long-term.