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Originally Posted by CMH
A couple things to help here:
1. You're seeing rounded numbers for ratings. Acuna's 50 could be 52 while McKinney's 45 could be 43. That's nearly a ten point difference in ratings.
That isn't identical at all. You can use the same assumptions for power and plate discipline.
2. McKinney had an extremely small sample size last season and is 23. Acuna is 20 and his potentials could be much higher, no? All that you're saying here is that Acuna at three years younger is only slightly better than a 23-year-old seldom used McKinney.
I don't have the game in front of me, but my assumption is that Acuna's potential ratings will likely make him a much better player by the time he's 23 and McKinney is 26. It's not a fair comparison to make by only showing current and ignoring other factors.
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The True Current ratings are this:
Acuna
Contact: 110
Gap: 130
Power: 135
Eye/Patience: 111
Soto
Contact: 139
Gap: 134
Power: 171
Eye/Patience: 152
Mckinney
Contact: 95
Gap: 134
Power: 118
Eye/Patience: 108
My point is that Soto, despite putting up virtually identical numbers as Acuna in 2019, starts this game as the best hitter in the NL by a wide margin. Acuna starts this game off as in your own words "only slightly better than a 23-year-old seldom used McKinney."
The randomness of the development means that the there is a likely-hood that Acuna never reaches the kind of player that Soto starts out as in OOTP20, despite them being nearly identical in 2018 in real life.
And even if his development goes perfect, I have to wait .5 a season to 2 seasons for Acuna to reach that potential, while Soto starts out 95% of the way to his potential ratings. Again, this is spite of them finishing with near identical stats last year.
I'm fine with their potential ratings, I think that is pretty realistic. My whole grip is with their current ratings being so far apart despite how similar they finished last year, and how spring training is shaping up to be this year.