01-18-2011, 01:24 PM
With the new talent distribution feature in BBM11 it's very random. It's meant to help encourage more random production and compensate for injuries (and subsequent drops) of young players. For example I had Ryan Westmoreland whom I acquired at 76/96 or something and he was coming along nicely at 86/93 when he experienced an injury, dropped to 81/86 and peaked during the offseason at 81. Over the last two seasons he's slowly recovered that and is now an 87. I don't know if it's related but he's been productive during that period as well.
On the other side of that same coin some players will drop, seemingly randomly. I'm sure you can cite examples where production dropped before the overall and cases where there was no production drop but just a drop. The way I look at it is every player has a built in +/-3 on their overall at any given sim. Rarely do players fall victim to this without injury more than once per season but at the end of the day it's just random.
As far as the farm systems, I can't say with certainty if those values matter or not but we have equalized that aspect of the game so if those values are still having an impact the gap will continue closing every season until it's doesn't matter.
On the other side of that same coin some players will drop, seemingly randomly. I'm sure you can cite examples where production dropped before the overall and cases where there was no production drop but just a drop. The way I look at it is every player has a built in +/-3 on their overall at any given sim. Rarely do players fall victim to this without injury more than once per season but at the end of the day it's just random.
As far as the farm systems, I can't say with certainty if those values matter or not but we have equalized that aspect of the game so if those values are still having an impact the gap will continue closing every season until it's doesn't matter.
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