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July 3, 2020 - New Feature
The Advanced Play Menu gives you the option to adjust how much impact the year and team player ratings adjustments have for real player leagues. You can now adjust those using the Options page after a league has been created. Changes there will impact future player development.
Previously you also only had the option of 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. The Options page now gives a custom option so you can try any adjustment between 0% and 100% instead of just those 5.
July 2, 2020 - New Feature
Having the full team real player ratings adjustment does produce the most accurate real player ratings. So that is the default setting. However, if you want the league to evolve in a more random way you now can turn it off or limit the impact it has in the Advanced Play Menu.
July 1, 2020 - New Feature
The team adjusted real player ratings improvement now also impacts real player development beyond the initial year the league is created. Before it just impacted the first year of a league.
The adjustment is applied based on the team the player would normally have been on and not the team a player may now be on due to the league starting to become different from the NBA. This should prevent massive team strength and player rating changes after that first year.
This adjustment now also makes the NBA career advanced option very realistic in terms of player careers, team success, and individual season accuracy.
June 30, 2020 - New Feature
The advanced team adjustment has now been added for all years for real player ratings. This should be an improvement even from the prior 1984 and 1985 adjustments previously made. This adjustment should produce team results consistently in line with the actual NBA for at least that initial year for Real Player / Real Team leagues.
June 29, 2020 - New Feature
I've added a pretty minor simplified team adjustment for real player ratings. It applies to all years except very recent years, where existing data already incorporates the adjustment fairly well.
Next I'll be looking to expand the advanced team adjustment, currently only used in 1984 and 1985.
June 28, 2020 - New Feature
The team based player ratings adjustments for 1984 and 1985 have now been brought over to Real Player / Real Team leagues. Before it was just for NBA Career leagues (and only if you started in prior years). Now they will be in effect when you start leagues in either 1984 or 1985.
June 27, 2020 - New Feature
Again, this improvement for now is only for the NBA Career leagues. If you create a league starting in 1983 or earlier you will come across the newly improved 1984 ratings and also the previously improved 1985 ratings.
June 26, 2020 - New Feature
This improvement for now is only in the NBA Career leagues. If you create the leagues starting in 1984 or earlier you will come across the improved 1985 ratings. I'll be looking to expand coverage in the coming days.
The main benefit of this improvement is improved relative team strength. Previously, by incorporating season specific stats in player ratings it can inflate players on bad teams. Also, if there are a lot of good players on good teams they may not appear as good as they really are. So this latest change incorporates team synergy that leads to wins that maybe isn't as obvious just looking at stats for individual players.
So I think the coming combined career based ratings, season based ratings, and team based ratings should make results pretty accurate on a player level, a season level, and a team level across all years.
June 25, 2020 - New Feature
For the recently added NBA Career option all players now should display the team they were drafted by.
June 24, 2020 - New Feature
For the recently added NBA Career option some players would not show a drafted team. All players now should display the team they were drafted by for leagues that are just a few season. It looks like the issue is still there for leagues that start in 1950 and go for decades. So I will review this more tomorrow as well.