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Originally Posted by Craig Scarborough
Wow - I had no idea this was the case. When running my franchise I would make it a point to promote low-A to high-A thinking in doing so it made a difference.
Not what I expected, but thanks for posting this.
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It should be I am not sure the difference is what you expect it to be. The AI still has weird allocations in my opinion. For instance, the AI does some weird things you can't do in real life like move aging minor league players or former major league players to rookie ball because their ratings are of newly drafted guys level. This is partly because the rules do not reflect the real rules, a player with too much professional baseball experience can't play in the rookie and SA leagues in RL. OOTP does have this limit.
I also think the AI is not nearly enough aggressive in cutting dead wood that will never make it to the majors. It sometimes prefers a 30 y/o washout over a guy that doesn't project but is young. Your scout may be wrong about the 21 y/o that doesn't look like much or random talent change could make him serviceable. At 30 a random talent bump is unlikely to change his development and your scout is likely dead on by that point.