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Originally Posted by cblacker
I would like to see a bit of a compromise between the OOTP 13 and OOTP 14 draft class generation methods. Reducing the number of 5 star players that your scout sees in the draft is fine, but there should be more 2.5 to 3.5 star players IMO. When you get to the 5th round of the draft, for example, your chances of finding a ML level player are small as you pointed out, but in real life do teams picking in the 5th round actually look at all the players left and only see scrubs? This is pure speculation, but it would seem to me that scouts would see at least a couple of guys that have 3 star potential even if the chances are slim that they will actual fulfill that potential.
With a guy like Pujols, obviously no team saw a future superstar or even a decent ML player, otherwise he would have been drafted much higher, but somebody somewhere saw something and made enough noise to get him drafted. I'm dreaming a bit here, but how about a bit of an overhaul of the scouting system, at least for the draft, where you have more scouts (area scouts, cross-checkers, etc.) so that when you get to the lower rounds, maybe you still only see a bunch of half star and one star scrubs, but you could get some little message about a player saying something like "our area scout really likes this guy, but other scouts disagree."
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I agree with a lot of this, you make some good points.
To enlarge on some of your points:
What folks are saying about lower round players looking like scrubs is exactly right if you only look at the star ratings or the overall ratings.
If you look at the real ratings in the editor, the guys that are being generated for the 5th round and even lower right now aren't really scrubs. Some of them actually have really nice potentials.
So I honestly think the problem here that's causing concern has more to do with the star ratings not working real well.
They tend to do a really bad job with players that project to be decent MLB backups or borderline MLB players that could be useful or even good if they get some small potential boosts. Right now these guys just seem to get 1* or '20' ratings most of the time.
The overall/star ratings don't differentiate between these guys and true no hopers at all right now.
So I'd suggest that maybe the star and overall ratings should be fine tuned a bit. I don't think there's any problem with the actual ratings though.