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I agree with sprague, this has been very interesting.
Maybe Markus and crew should look at rating players the way Baseball America started doing last year. They put a potential rating (20-80 scale on increments of five) on a guy that they believe is the ceiling (or absolute best) a guy could turn out to be. Then they rate that player's chances of reaching that ceiling. I don't have my Prospect Handbook here at work, but I think it's something like low, medium and high to rate the chances of maxing out the potential.
So a guy could be a 70 potential, but have a low chance of reaching that, and another guy could be a 60 potential with a high chance of reaching that. So which guy would you draft?
A system like this would allow us to see some higher potentials in the draft pool while still having the real-life variability without it "feeling" random. Maybe they could even build in something like the need to scout a guy at least three times or have him in your organization for an entire year in order to reveal that secondary rating.
Just some thoughts.
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