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#13162	01/05/2015 2:12:32 am		Ignore
Holmes Joined: 11/07/2013 Posts: 1175 Inactive	With the age decline arrows missing over the season flip this time around, new players may have a hard time learning how the decline works. After all, one doesn't necessarily remember how good a player's single skills were before the season flip... I was lucky enough to have saved a copy of my roster view in a spreadsheet shortly before the season flip and was able to recreate what the Training view would have looked like if training 0 was visible the way it was in previous seasons. Unfortunately, the forum formatting isn't ideal for showing that, so I'm posting it from a csv copy of my spreadsheet: Every semicolon means a column separation. Instead of the down arrow, I simply put an x. I'm including all my players age 29 and up, even if they have no decline this year. Consequently, the table below can be read as follows: Major league 1B Russell Higging, age 34, Hitting has declined to 17, BC 8 constant, PD has declined to 13, Power 9 constant, Speed has declined to 7, Fielding 8 constant, Range has declined to 15, Arm has declined to 7. Maybe that helps some of the new guys in the game, and if someone else has access to his/her decline values, feel free to post, as well. I won't say much as far as interpretation goes, except maybe, comparing what I had seen in previous year age decline, there were no major surprises here. Position players: Assignment;Pos;Player;Age;  ;Hit;BC;PD;Pow;Spd;  ;Fld;Rng;Arm Majors;1B;Russell Higgins;34;;17x;8;13x;9;7x;;8;15x;7x Majors;3B;Hui Zhang;34;;15x;8;6;12x;8x;;16x;11;14x Majors;OF;Yasuo Uchida;34;;13x;7x;18x;16x;9x;;8;13x;15x Majors;1B;Darryl Rivers;32;;15x;15;13;14;14x;;7;8;15 Majors;SS;Julio Madrid;32;;13;14x;15;9;14x;;14x;16x;12x Majors;OF;Xavier Velez;31;;15;17;15;15;6x;;10;11;12 Majors;2B;Chris Osbourne;30;;19;17;9;15;14x;;15;12;8 Majors;2B;Fred Barr;29;;13;7;13;11;14x;;7;15;12 Majors;OF;Cheng Hu;29;;14;9;16;13;8;;10;16;13 Pitchers: Assignment;Pos;Player;Age;  ;Vel;CoS;Mov;Con;Sta;  ;Fld;Rng;Arm Majors;P;Troy Murray;33;;12x;18;15x;14x;10;;11x;7;18x Majors;P;Maurice Owens;32;;9x;12;18x;6x;17;;13;9;17 Majors;P;Minoru Gotou;29;;10;8;16;18;10;;10;16;14
#13167	01/05/2015 3:37:48 am		Ignore
mothi Joined: 06/04/2014 Posts: 16 Inactive	Wish i had a copy of my Players skills before the flip aswell
#13171	01/05/2015 9:02:33 am		Ignore
Frankebasta Joined: 09/15/2013 Posts: 884 Kodiak Mules III.3	No need to wonder indeed. There's a general rule about declining skills which is pretty reliable. By age of 30, one lost ppoint in Speed At 31 one less in range, and Speed By 32, they're gonna lose one point per Skill, with exceptions for PD Pitchers will lose Velocity first. Stamina second, and Control last. Sometimes you can have a decrease at 29, or even an improvement at age 31 I don't lnow if it's due to refining due to experience or training. In the player's page you can find the SI year by year. using this rule of thumb you can guess which skill has actually changed O shall not forget to mention that Steve let us know that the aging speed rate has changed, a few seasons ago I seem to remember there might be a difference between players. it's not a fixed rate. However, in my experience I didn't notice it
#13179	01/05/2015 10:40:59 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Sorry about this...we have resolved the issue. But after the fact, their wasn't an easy way to generate the change information because the "previous" value was no longer available. Steve

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