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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
There are a few historical guys that are intentionally underrated per overall, and a lot of the historical guys in general are rated a bit lower overall than they "should" be based on their pure ratings, for reasons both Markus and I have repeatedly explained, but generally speaking the overalls are a pretty close approximation of player skills.
They're never meant as anything more than a very rough guide though, either in regular OOTP or in PT.
Even when players are legitimately exactly evenly rated overall, they'll still vary in performance from year to year and team to team and some guys will out-perform other guys with the same overalls, because of randomness, and because every player gets to their overall in a different way.
Some are lefty mashers who can't hit righties. Play them against the wrong handed guys and their performance will suffer. Some are defense first, some are high contact and low power, high stuff and low control or vice-versa and the teams, roles, parks and leagues they're in all make a difference, as does sample size, pure luck and randomness.
Player performance is extremely complex, nuanced and realistic in OOTP and we couldn't distill everything down to a perfectly accurate and wholly predictive overall rating even if we wanted to, especially since different users will give different weight to different player abilities. The overalls are very rough guides to a player's general ability level. That's all they're intended to be.
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I totally get sample sizes, luck and randomness. I have arguments with fans of my team all the time because for some reason, younger baseball fans seem to complain if their team doesn't go 162-0 and it kind of drives me insane. And your team can still have a great season if they don't win the WS.
I guess I just don't understand why historical players have lower OVR on purpose. I just can't comprehend that a 1997 Mariano Rivera is rated an 80 OVR while there are about 50 live card relievers rated higher than that. (I'm guessing on that) If 1997 Rivera is an 80, diamonds relief pitchers shouldn't exist.