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Originally Posted by Dwight Schrute
after the draft the a/i put those said player in AAA...now its still january so we will see.. next i will try the lahman... do you sim historical, steve? which db do you use?
thanks
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I don't sim historical, I
play historical.
(in other words, I play it game-by-game, not season-by-season). Mostly 1960s, but not exclusively. Part of the attraction of that period is that the leagues are smaller which makes it easier to fine-tune the AI for each of the teams to get more realistic behavior.
I use the lahman, but I've learned some tricks for adding fictional players that aren't too highly rated, so that I get a more robust league (I only use 2 levels of minor leagues at most). I decided not to use the Spritze db because I want the players to be on the correct teams for whatever year I am doing. I have tried to use Gambo's db, but there is a bug that occurs when using neutralized stats. The bug is only on the Mac (for all I know, it may only be occurring on
my Mac
), so that's out for me until it gets fixed in OOTP10 (I hope). Also the neutralized stats, whether it's the Garlon/Spritze that come with the game or Gambo's, have a tendency to cause star players to end up on starting lineups a year or two too early, and also to stay starters until they retire, which annoys me perhaps more than it should. I also ran into some problems with pitcher ratings with the Gambo, but never got very far into figuring out what exactly was causing those problems.