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Holy mackerel, that mess in the old thread was of my creation! Somehow one of my Firefox plugins inserted a load of garbage into the end of my response. I've taken it out now, but I'm afraid the damage is done. Ugh, major apologies. Anyway, here is the response I typed previously (sans the excess garbage):
I don't think this problem is due to the players being from Japan. I'm also noticing a steady talent deflation in the test version of my online league. We're a 24-team league that drafts 480 players from a pool of about 500. The pool is populated exclusively through our two feeder leagues (no generated players). We're two years into play and so far the talent has been pretty much what I would call "normal" in that the first round is filled with 4.5-5* potential players and a slow drop-off occurs after that (we reach only 1* potentials left around round 7-8). That works just great and is just what I'm looking for.
What I'm noticing in my test league, however, is that a couple years from now the talent falls off the face of the Earth. This coincides with the time that the last of the players generated when the league was first created leave the feeder leagues. The players generated after the "Big Bang" aren't anywhere near the talent of those original players. This despite the fact that the only change I've made to the default PCMs league-wide is to slightly increase the "Avoid Ks" saber PCM in the feeder leagues.
Once the "Big Bang" players leave the system, we're routinely into nothing but 1* potentials by the 2nd round. The top starting pitchers are usually rated 50-50-50 (on a 1-100 scale), and there are only a couple of those at best. And while this is in a league with scouting on (and thus you can have erroneous scouting reports), these low ratings hold true no matter what scout is judging the pool (as commish I can access all the teams and use their best scouts to grade talent).
As we approach our 3rd amateur draft, I would love to know what's causing this issue and see if someone can suggest a remedy.
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