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Originally Posted by Ksyrup
In the RonCo thread over at the OOTP forum, SD says he'll be putting together a new fictional quickstart combing RonCo's modifiers and his settings. I'm looking forward to messing with that when he releases it. From the analysis he and RonCo have done, it looks like the initial set of players created by the game are far superior to the ones created later in the game, so his next quickstart is going to sim for a 25-year period and delete the league history so that the numbers are more consistent.
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After further analysis, I'm not certain I'm going to do this. In my overnight 100-year sim, starting in 2001, there was a four-year offensive mini-boom that began the career, but then things remained within one standard deviation of the 100-year norm from 2005-2022. Seven of the nine seasons from 2023-2031 were one between 1 and 1.56 standard deviations below normal, followed by 2032-2038 being normal. 2039 and 2040 saw a two-year mini-boom, then 2039-2067 were normal. Offense was down again from 2068-2074, normal from 2075-2078, then there was an extended offensive boom from 2079-2092, and normalcy the rest of the way. Overall, it looks like the league is having a healthy offensive fluctuation throughout its history.
However, all this being said, it is worth noting that the highest league-wide offensive stats in history in just about every category were achieved in 2001. Based on this, I'd still recommended simming a decade and deleting that history to avoid "unbreakable" single-season records happening during that initial boom.