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Originally Posted by fhomess
To get back to whar Markus actually posted:
I'm wondering if we can get some more detail on this. Currently, players are eligible for the draft after they leave HS or College. What this means is that people of often setup multiple HS and College leagues to get a variety of ages into their drafts, rather than just 18 and 21 year olds. So if I've got 4 HS leagues and 4 College leagues, which college league will the undrafted HS players go to? Can the HS players who are undrafted go to independant leagues if none of the College teams want them?
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This is one of my biggest questions also, as a big fan of the player development aspect of the game. Can we select certain high school leagues to feed into several different college leagues, or is it strictly linear where one or more HS feeders can only go into one college. Also, can a HS feeder send unsigned players to more than one college league. Or is it the players select the college, since they are FAs before the draft(I believe they are anyways). I would love to be able to send unsigned HS players from a multiple leagues into one or more college feeders to control foreign player #s more cleanly under one college league in my Euro League.
A couple other notes. Usually, undrafted HS players are by far the worst ones. They would only be worse in a college league, with the exception of the few HS players who fail to sign. This would prove problematic for me in that the college feeder would end up being partially filled with undraftable retreads, who will likely go undrafted again. Also, will they develop at all from HS to college in terms of ratings, or no?
One more question, you said there would be "post-draft contract and bonus negotiations". Does that mean there are going to be monetary values attached to minor league contracts now. Maybe the optimist in me is reading into that too much, but I would love to have AAAA/replacement level talent with upside to be stockpiled with $100,000-$500,000 contracts. This might be the only missing feature I desire now with the new feeder system in place.
Finally, I love the implementation of FIP, wOBA, UZR clone, and OPS+. I would avoid putting in WAR yet for there is still ongoing debates over calculating reliever and starter WAR, especially over reliever replacement level. tRA or now tERA's formula is not publicly available yet unless they have recently revealed it. I read Lookout Landing and Fangraphs regularly, yet have seen nothing to that effect besides a post explaining what it quantifies. Furthermore, I want to say I love what you have done with the game. The work with feeders, stats, player development, scouting, individual pitch rating etc... has made the game so much better than when I first bought OTP07.
Also, props to who came up with this quote "
Stats cause nothing, explain nothing and predict nothing. But stats are a valueable indication to look for reasons. They are a maidservant for the mind". Whether it is original or not, I wish I had that on hand in the past to deal with countless numeraphobic historians.
I can never make a short post in this forum, dam.