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[holt77]

6) Now let's add some RankPerYear to this player so his strength in the future years will be determined instead of random ; 1st, we copy the existing RankPerYear from "Players.ATP.ini" and put it under the section name :

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[Player0238]
RankPerYear      =   435, 78, 37, 11, 15, 9, 2

7) Now we add a couple of ranks ; eg: (if you're a Sinner fan )

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RankPerYear      =   435, 78, 37, 11, 15, 9, 2, 1, 1, 1

Note : if the ranks you give are better than the BestRank, you should raise the BestRank to match the best new rank, and raise these 4 mental skills high enough (otherwise the players will get much better skills to compensate) : Concentration, ColdBlood, Constancy, Motivation.

Hi, I have a couple of questions regarding these points:

1) If a player's RankPerYear (end-of-year ranking in real life) is, for example, is 235, 184, 156, 143, 167, 201, 300, but at some point during their peak years they reached 100, do you put their BestRank as 100 and leave the RankPerYear the same as their end-of-year ranking in real life? And will the game try to give them a peak around 100 as well, or will it stick more strictly to the RankPerYear numbers?

2) Regarding the ratings of the four mental skills, you mention that if these are too low for their ranking, they will get better skills to compensate, so does that also mean that if you rate the mental skills too highly their other skills will suffer slightly? I'm not quite sure where they fit in with the normalised skills, as I didn't think these four mental skills had an overall effect on the other skills.

Sorry for all the questions!

[manutoo]

1) BestRank should be the best RankPerYear. The game doesn't handle mid-year peak ; they might come randomly though.

2) Yes. Read their description here => https://www.managames.com/tennismanager ... tml#skills .

[holt77]

2) Yes. Read their description here => https://www.managames.com/tennismanager ... tml#skills .

Thanks. So, from reading the descriptions and from reading the modding guide, top class players should be rated anything up to 95 for the four mental skills, as I guess their RankPerYear will still mean that they have pretty high stats elsewhere in any given year anyway. According to the Players.ATP file in the TE4-ModdingSDK, lower-ranked players outside the top 100 seem to average around the 60s for these stats, with some slightly lower or higher, so I guess that's a fairly good guide?

I did notice a few random outliers: Felix Auger-Aliassime has 100-94-100-100 for these four stats, while Diego Schwartzman has 100-100-92-100.

[manutoo]

1) Yes

2) It can be random or some glitch ; the base has been rebuilt many times and regularly some stuff goes wrong...

[holt77]

1) BestRank should be the best RankPerYear.

Hi, another quick question related to this.

In the Players.ini file, when it comes to young players that haven't reached their peak yet, if I have their actual ranking up to the end of 2024 in the file, but then set a BestRank, to, say, 5, will that instruct the game to move that player towards number 5 in the rankings at some point in their career, or will the game still decide itself which BestRank the player will reach?

Basically, just wondering if I might need to set some future RankPerYear numbers up to 2030, or if there are other ways to let the game know which players should end up being good!

[manutoo]

Yes, the game will use your BestRank ; it'll never make it worse, but it can make it better if it's a young player.