Knight...need a little help for updating rosters.

[Gagnon39]

I remember a thread somewhere talking about keeping consistent rosters years into a franchise. I don't know that I fully understand how it could be done in a reasonable time frame. In other words, using knights rosters how do you keep BB/9, reaction, and control down with player progression? Do players progress during the season? And how many new rookies come into the league at the end of each year. Does the game literally show how much players progress each year?

I'm really thinking about using knights rosters because I've read that simultated stats are unrealistic (is that true)? I've been tinkering with everything the past couple of days and have started a couple of franchises but I want to be sure of the rosters before I really get it going.

Knight, if you or anyone else has any words of wisdom as for how to keep the players stats the same throughout a franchise please let me know. I understand that the user will have to edit the stats at some point but how much and how often?

I know I have a lot of questions, thanks for any time. And just for the record. I edited NCAA Football rosters for years, so I know how time consuming it can be. I appreciate it. I enjoy editing rosters but I just don't have the time anymore.

[Knight165]

Gagnon...

The ratings stay as is throughout the year(but game to game, I think there is a hot/cold "bonus" and also one with fatigue...but you can't see it)....it's after the season is done that you get to see the players progression/regression and the game uses points as the indicator. Usually an A potential player will get between +10-+20....with the bar it's hard to see where the CPU allocated those points, but I don't think(I'm going on memory here...and I'm OLD!) I remember any one category getting huge jumps....so the edits don't get totally frayed from one year to the next.(especially on the older players)...but I'll do some testing again to confirm just how much it is....
The younger A/B potential players seem to make the more significant jumps also.

As for the new players coming in......it's usually 3 a team(and with retirements/FA signings...it might not even be three) so you're looking at maybe 90 edits per season.....with maybe half being pitchers(the tougher player to edit.
If you don't mind the fake names....then the edits can go very quickly.
I just keep my eye on speed...baserunning.....reaction(OF) and power(grows too quickly, so I hamper them at the start) and fielding.(this year...last year I only had to do speed/reaction)
I don't mess much with the pitchers at first because the hitters have the upper hand...usually in the third year I go into the pitchers.
Last year I had a chart that I kept of the rookies that had their names/teams and I just marked it YEAR 1...YEAR 2 and so on...(I got to 5 ) and just gave them a little check when I edited them.
Sounds nuts...but it's pretty easy if you give yourself a system and stick to it(don't jump around)

M.K.
Knight165