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Originally Posted by Gai1997
Do you look at almost all your prospects? Like I'll find prospects with good potential and choose to worry about them. However I've decided to do a 1-5 ratings and no stars/potential league so I'd probably have to look for their stats a bit more.
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I do monitor all of my prospects development. I also set the lineups and batting orders. I try to give all drafted players at least two years in the system. I would hate to cut a late round find before I knew what I had. My last game in ootp15 I had an 18th rounder and a 31st rounder become star players. That being said, with 40-50 new players entering your organization each year I do have to make cuts of one year players.
I have not played with your current ratings system but it sounds like your settings would make it more difficult in choosing who to keep. I am intrigued and may try it.
I don't know if playing time effects a prospects development
(anyone--was there a final answer to that debate?) but one thing manually setting the lineup can help with is position development. Many prospects (as they should be) are drafted as a fielder for which they have no aptitude for in the long term. Also, some defensive studs can obviously play more then one position. By manually forcing them to learn the new position(s) early in their career you can have a more major league ready prospect by the time they hit AA or AAA. I recall some debate as to whether making a young prospect learn a new position would eat in to their development in other areas
(anyone?). Intelligence and work ethic play a role in if/how fast I do this with a prospect.