Career adjustment for low AB/IP?

[SgtPepp]

In OOTP 6.5, when running a historical career sim, a batter who went 3 for 5 lifetime could be made bad for the import season, but still had way too good talent/potential ratings. This was fixed in the 6.51 patch, but not for pitchers. A pitcher who pitched 10 innings lifetime, walked 0 and struckout 10 would still be given great career talent ratings.

Has this been fixed for OOTP 2007? Or an option added that I missed?

Also, any suggestions for how to work Babe Ruth into the sim? Shouldn't he import with high batting talent/potential ratings even as a rookie pitcher? Then you could just change him to an OF when he develops?

Maybe I have a basic misunderstanding of how talent/potential ratings are generated or how they effect player development.

[Comedian2004]

It does a very good job of making crappy players out of those low at bats or IP, but they players occasionally have good enough talent to become a good player. It has been tweaked pretty good.

If you use the yearly modifiers for the players, Babe will be an very good pitcher for a few years (until 1919 I think), and he will have a very good bat during the early years) Then he will automatically become an OF with his normal punch.

[SgtPepp]

Thanks for the info. So if I use yearly player modifiers, the career sim will more closely resemble real historical year by year player stats? What happens if a player missed a season? And does using yearly player modifiers mean talent/potential ratings won't mean anything? Should I turn off player development if I do this?

[ctorg]

Originally Posted by SgtPepp

Thanks for the info. So if I use yearly player modifiers, the career sim will more closely resemble real historical year by year player stats? What happens if a player missed a season? And does using yearly player modifiers mean talent/potential ratings won't mean anything? Should I turn off player development if I do this?

If a guy missed a season I believe it reverts to the standard career model for that season. Talent doesn't mean nearly as much when the ratings are updated each year, but it's still a way to gauge who is a good guy to have for his career.

I wouldn't turn off player development. While it does stop the ratings from changing during the season, I believe guys who hung up the cleats will continue to have their last year's ratings ad infinitum.

[Tekneek]

In my historical league, Moonlight Graham barely got any action in the Rookie league (running with full minors) over 3 seasons before leaving baseball completely.

I went with the default settings using the Lahman DB. I like how it tends to make these guys bad, but sometimes they escape from that and have a magnificent career.