The File

[AndyP]

The other problem, and this is completely seperate from the league, but I don't think that the designers of Mogul are attacking the right elements for randomness. Production and injuries are randomn/unpredictable. Not skills. Mogul has seemingly taken the approach of randomnly dropping or adding skills rather than having players have up and down years. Vitals need not necessarily follow production, that would better capture the realistic challenge of scouting.

Without a doubt that is true, the one thing I don't like about the AI of the game is random drops on players that are being productive. You would think that would be the opposite.

Yeah, there are multiple threads on the mogul site about that - the designers and main posters there seem to be pretty defensive about this issue because they like the randomn nature of the drops.

But like I said, the problem is that what they have randomnized is completely unrealistic. Frankie Liriano was still throwing 94-95 last year with the same slider and change he has this year, but for non-quantifiable reasons he had a down year. This year - he's back. It's not like his "vitals" dove, he just didn't pitch to his talent. THAT is what they are trying to simulate, but they're doing it the wrong way. Randomize production, don't randomize skill adjustments.

I think the changes they made to create this silly form of randomness may make file tweaking almost impossible. At least that's my worry.