[nymets3000]

Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees

I've been playing this game for three and a half years and I'm still learning about it. Tidbits like this, dropped in an offhand manner by the developer, are like finding gold nuggets in your wash pan. Hence thom's reaction.

I have known the connection of work ethic to development for a long time; all you have to do is observe the AI in its preference, or avoidance, of draftees and trade fodder according to WE. Intelligence, though, I vaguely thought was related to better, smarter ballplay. Who knows, maybe it is, still . . .

Regarding leadership, I firmly believe that is related to better, smarter ballplay all around. BTW, has anybody ever seen either a skewed distribution of leadership, that is, few blue-rated leaders and a vast majority of reds and oranges, or leadership that changes over time, with age and experience? I cannot prove it here, but I think I'm seeing this in my game.

I rarely see players that are average-above average in leadership. Either they are in the dark red-orange section or light blue. I'm not sure if that rating changes after time, would make sense but I don't think it does. I remember having 10-15 year veterans that were all star players stay at a 4 leadership, while I just bring up a 22 year old middle reliever that has a 19. I would like to see leadership have a stronger correlation with being a good player and age then all randomness. Randomness should play a small part though, because there are good veterans that aren't much of a leader(Carlos Beltran, for instance), while there are young players that are leaders.