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Originally Posted by voxpoptart
Except that in OOTP, the decision never to promote him will be correct, because no amount of good performance is going to change the game's hardwired Potential rating. That would still be true sometimes under Random Talent Change Triggered by Performance; there do in fact seem to exist players who maul class A and never can get the hang of AA, although it's hard to know for sure how much that's affected by sample size. But in OOTP, good performance is as likely to be rewarded by ratings going *down*. And that, in my opinion, just shouldn't (with rare exceptions) be part of the game.
And yes, I'm talking about batters, not pitchers.
RainKing's more radical argument to "have no hard-coded potential ratings at all" is interesting, and I'm dubious about it but not utterly opposed. However, mine is less radical and should be much easier to implement.
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I don't meant to seem aggressive, hope that's not the case, but I think you're worrying too much about the potential rating here and also not taking advantage of options already provided by the game.
The potential ratings are a guide, not a guarantee. They don't actually matter all that much. They do matter I guess, but guys with high potentials will bust, and guys with low potentials will outperform expectations, just as in real life.
I've had guys that have been 1* or 2* potentials their whole career be absolute strong players for years if they start performing while young and then just don't stop. Their potential rating might not ever catch up to their actual performance, but they're still darn good players in spite of that.
Additionally, both ratings, though particularly the overall rating, will take performance more into account and will even fluctuate to an extent based on performance if you enable the option 'Overall rating based on AI evaluation, not pure ratings' and also make sure the ai evaluation is set to place a good deal of emphasis on stats. You'll end up with guys with overall ratings higher than their potentials, but that will just reflect their actual performance to a greater degree.
Doing that will very likely provide you with an experience much closer to what you're looking for.