Amaroq
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Joined: 8/3/2005 From: San Diego, California Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Paul Vebber my take on it is that you don't want to actually change the ratings, but what you want are a number of different "variation curves" over the course of the season. I wouldn't want to be paraphrased as saying that. I'm actually thinking that, for players who are in the 'rapid growth' or 'rapid decline' stages of their careers, that I want the ratings to change over the course of the season. I want it to be possible for three months of AAA to be what is needed for a guy to really acquire the polish needed to succeed in the bigs; I want a *reason* that my April, July, September, and post-season rosters might *need* to be different. However, your idea has brilliant merit of its own, and in fact most of those patterns could be represented with sine waves of different period and amplitude. I think that, overlaid, those two together might create a very good model. Obviously, the 'Lahman' question is problematic, and I imagine that there would be players who want to turn either or both off entirely (either for performance reasons, or for preference reasons).
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