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Originally Posted by Cinnamon J. Scudworth
I've seen this suggestion a couple of times and don't understand it. The common-sense reading of the checkbox is that it is about the cosmetic appearance of the OVR/POT star ratings that you see. The AI always goes by the "AI evaluation settings." That's what they are, by definition.
See the description in the manual:
As well as Markus' comment here when the feature was first introduced: |
When you have the CPU determine the overall ratings by this setting, it is going to give higher overall ratings (displayed or not) because of their statistical production, and not because of their ratings.
The CPU tends to make its managerial decisions based on a combination of overall ratings/potential ratings plus obviously more under the hood. If you are having the CPU determine the ratings mainly through the statistical production and not what the CPU is being told should be produced (the ratings), they make much better decisions.
In a pure ratings system, a player can be rated extremely well, and not produce at all, and he is still going to get the nod over the low-rated player who is actively producing -- because he's rated better, and not because of his production.
I hope this clears it up a bit. Also, if you are using this in historical leagues, you want to have the following checkmarked as well:
(I only have a historical loaded, so don't remember if this is also in MLB/fictional games at present.)