[SirMichaelJordan]

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.

I never had a problem with players who are performing not getting promoted unless they were obviously block which is not a frequent case because fictional players pretty much play 2 or more positions at a high level (which is an issue)

I play with ratings at 25% and TCR @ 200 and with those extreme settings, I've never witness a guy suck his entire career then perform at a high level out of nowhere or guy who are outperforming everyone in the minors and still has a low potential rating. Guys I see that are selected in the Rule V are guys who are too good for the level they are at (usually A AA) but not quite ready for the next level as far as their individual ratings which the game also looks at.