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This is how they should work, in my opinion, to make the game more flexible, rather than how they do work, which no one seems to have a good handle on. This is my opinion - something I'd like to see implemented - and I'd like to know what others think.

MLEs should affect current ability levels of players but not their potentials. PCMs should affect both current and potential levels. In this way, we can create leagues where players are brought in at specific levels of development but can still progress.

For instance, let's say I have an independent AA-level league and the MLEs, for simplicity's sake, are all .800. PCMs are all 1.000. Players coming into that league should be at 80% of major league level as far as their current abilities, but their potentials should be major league level. That way, they can get better and have some hope of being signed by major league teams if they do very well for the indy leagues.

This would be very consistent with what MLEs actually are. When you look at a minor leaguer's stats and figure the MLE, you are not looking at his potential, but where he stands right now if he had been in the majors.

I am trying to create a universe in which minor leagues are not affiliated. Minor leaguers get free agency after one year and can sign on with big league clubs and all at the end of their first year. Currently, I'm not sure the game is able to do this well. Having my proposed setup for MLEs would make this much more manageable.

I'd like to see MLEs modified so that this is how they work within the game. It would, in my opinion, make them much more useful by making them something substantively different from PCMs.

My only issue now is that, for all I know, this is how they work. But from what I've read around here, it isn't. No one really seems to have a good grasp of them.