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injury log · 06-10-2013, 03:58 AM

Yes, I agree with other people that your pitcher is good right now, but not great, and got a bit lucky to win 20 games (well, really you've probably just put a great team on the field, which let an average pitcher win a lot of games).

The good news is, Hultzen still appears to have some development left. While some ratings don't rise much after age 25, Control often will, and if his Control reaches its potential, you'll have a very good SP.

As for how development works in the game, that's a bit complicated, but:

- stats do not affect development - in other words, a player's ratings in Stuff/Movement/Control won't get better just because the player posts good stats. In an earlier version of OOTP (three or four years ago) they did, so you might see some people claiming they do on the forum here, but they don't (it was an exploitable feature of the game, and was backwards anyway).

- if instead you're asking about the OVR rating in the top right (the '45' in Hultzen's case), that is possibly influenced by his stats, depending on your settings in Game Setup. But the game won't be using stats like Wins; it will be using WAR or equivalent things.

- for minor leaguers, playing time will matter a bit, so don't have your star prospects on the bench. And if you want someone to remain a starting pitcher, be sure to use him in the rotation, or else he'll start focusing on his best two pitches and might, over time, become incapable of being an SP at all (takes a while for that to happen, but it will happen eventually).

- coaches and your development budget have a small effect on development, not a large one, as I understand, but I've never done any systematic tests of that. Same with player personality ratings.

- players won't develop a lot past age 25 (that is, their current ratings won't rise much further towards their potentials) except in Control and in Eye. There are occasional exceptions.

- if scouting is on, then when you see potential ratings change, that may mean the player's ceiling has changed, but it might mean that your scout recognized an error in his previous scouting report.

- most of development is down to luck. So if some of your prospects don't develop, it's very likely that nothing you did that was the cause.

06-10-2013, 03:58 AM	#5
injury log Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto Posts: 9,162	Yes, I agree with other people that your pitcher is good right now, but not great, and got a bit lucky to win 20 games (well, really you've probably just put a great team on the field, which let an average pitcher win a lot of games). The good news is, Hultzen still appears to have some development left. While some ratings don't rise much after age 25, Control often will, and if his Control reaches its potential, you'll have a very good SP. As for how development works in the game, that's a bit complicated, but: - stats do not affect development - in other words, a player's ratings in Stuff/Movement/Control won't get better just because the player posts good stats. In an earlier version of OOTP (three or four years ago) they did, so you might see some people claiming they do on the forum here, but they don't (it was an exploitable feature of the game, and was backwards anyway). - if instead you're asking about the OVR rating in the top right (the '45' in Hultzen's case), that is possibly influenced by his stats, depending on your settings in Game Setup. But the game won't be using stats like Wins; it will be using WAR or equivalent things. - for minor leaguers, playing time will matter a bit, so don't have your star prospects on the bench. And if you want someone to remain a starting pitcher, be sure to use him in the rotation, or else he'll start focusing on his best two pitches and might, over time, become incapable of being an SP at all (takes a while for that to happen, but it will happen eventually). - coaches and your development budget have a small effect on development, not a large one, as I understand, but I've never done any systematic tests of that. Same with player personality ratings. - players won't develop a lot past age 25 (that is, their current ratings won't rise much further towards their potentials) except in Control and in Eye. There are occasional exceptions. - if scouting is on, then when you see potential ratings change, that may mean the player's ceiling has changed, but it might mean that your scout recognized an error in his previous scouting report. - most of development is down to luck. So if some of your prospects don't develop, it's very likely that nothing you did that was the cause.