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Originally Posted by spleen1015
Maybe my understanding of the check box is wrong. It says Overall ratings, so to me that means the star rating or the number that the star rating represents, not the individual category ratings like Stuff, Power, etc. ratings.
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That's right. The 2nd box only affects overall ratings. You can play with this in the MLB player list. If you select only to view 1 positions (only view 2Bs, etc) with the box checked, you may find some positions don't have an 80/80 player. But then uncheck the box, and each position will be adjusted so that the best one is 80/80, and that becomes the new scale.
Having ratings based on positions can be a bit useful when trading random prospects you don't care about so that you won't trade away some decent prospect in a weak overall position for a player that looks to have more potential, but is in a position where talent is abundant.
This is most dramatic in pitching, I think. If ratings are position-based, starting pitchers are much more valuable for having the same raw attributes as a reliever. But based on all positions, relievers and starting pitchers look the same. However, decent relievers are easy to find, but it takes a special set of requirements to be a good starting pitcher (stamina, 3+ decent pitches) and so you should want to look at starting pitchers based on ability against other starters.
For the 1st checkbox, all player ratings displayed relative to the entire league, it seems particularly helpful for sorting through all those relatively weak 20/80 players that you can't tell apart at a glance. You might normally have like 1/4 of ML players rated 20/80, for example, but with the 1st box checked, I believe it makes the best players in the league be 80/80, and the worst be 20/80 (though not sure what happens if you promoted a rookie league player to the ML, perhaps it would lower the 20/80 floor a lot?). With the 1st box checked, many of those 20/80 players may become 35/80, etc., so you can tell which ones should be in the ML as a backup, or which prospects have potential to be a fringe ML player.
But I think the 1st box being checked messes with the individual ratings (contact, etc.) and makes them less useful. It makes them show ratings relative to the league averages. I think that isn't helpful, because it less accurately describes how the player will perform, since the game uses the raw ratings, not the adjusted ones.
You may even see some players are rated higher than others with 1st checkbox on, yet lower rated with it off.
So by default, I have 1st box unchecked, 2nd box checked in order to give maximum "raw" numbers. But I will check the 1st box to get more detail on fringe players, and perhaps more fairly assess overall quality difference between players (My 40/80 catcher becomes 47/80 with 1st box checked, and isn't really that much worse than the 78/80 catcher that becomes 67/80). I check the 2nd box to get a sense of the position's abundance of talent (mainly SP vs RP, and Pitchers vs batters overall).
What I don't know is what the 20/80 scale is based on if the 1st box is not checked.