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Originally Posted by BigRed75
That's all well and good for figuring out if a prospect is ready for the bigs, but what if you want to know if they're ready to go from High-A to AA, or Low-A to High-A? That's when ratings relevant to the league is absolutely essential.
If you just go by absolutes, or ratings relative to MLB, all it will tell you is that the player isn't ready for MLB. But you already knew that, because he's in frickin' Single-A.
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This is 100% correct. Using the relative ratings functions helps you differentiate between all those guys with a 20 rating (on 20/80 scale) when set to MLB ratings. Change it to a minor league level and a rating could change to 50 or 70 or 30, and then you have a better idea of whether that player is ready to play at that level. This is why I think it's one of the best additions to the game (and the most useful for me) in the past few years.