[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by pjh5165

This is the best post I have seen regarding the draft class quality since OOTP14 came out.

I think the "fan perspective" (OOTP 13 draft pool) where the players seem more talented on draft day seems more realistic to a lot of people because that's the way they see it as fans of real life teams. As a huge Braves fan myself, I remember having unrealistically high opinions of many high round draft picks (Cody Johnson, Jon Gilmore, Brett DeVall, Matt Lipka, Sean Gilmartin) because the Braves beat writers and bloggers mainly covered the positive aspects of their skillsets and tended to talk about their potential in terms of their ceiling rather than their floor.

Now, I personally like the "GM perspective" better (OOTP14-15) because I do not have the disappointment of seeing my top picks get their ratings knocked down, but I will be the first to admit that I have no idea how realistic it is compared to what a real life GM is looking at on draft day. I would like to think that GM's don't see 3rd and 4th round picks as sure-fire major league talent, like they looked in OOTP 13, and so I tend to believe that the new way is more realistic and like it much more.

Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

I think you hit the nail on the head as far as what information we read as fans. Writers, bloggers, etc. who cover a team almost always focus on a draftee's potential, so we get stories about what that players could become of he reaches his highest potential. Unless we read Keith Law or Jonathan Mayo or the guys at Baseball America, we're less likely to read about the things those draftees need to improve on to have a chance. So in most of our eyes, that sevenfth-round draft pick with the low-90s fastball and POTENTIAL to develop good offspeed stuff is a stud, while in reality (and in OOTP terms), he's a one-star potential MLB guy who COULD develop into a multi-star guy.

Exactly!