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kevin95630 · 12-21-2019, 08:45 PM

I imagine this has come up before, but I was not able to track down a thread on it, so here goes....

I'm thoroughly baffled by the historical player ratings. Coming out of the APBA tradition, I am accustomed to a high degree of accuracy in the ratings, and finding them perplexingly lacking in OOTP.

While I greatly appreciate the depth of this game, I can't figure how the ratings are intended to correlate to IRL performance.

Two examples I have recently encountered are the 1972 Clay Carroll and the 1963 Jim Bouton.

In 72, Carroll was an ace in the Cincinnati bullpen. 37 saves in 92 IP, an ERA of 2.25 and other stats in line with an awesome rating (he was an A* in APBA). Yet his OOTP rating is fairly lackluster.

Bouton in 63 was 21-7 for the Yankees, with an ERA of 2.53. He famously threw his arm out with his fastball that he threw so hard his hat would come off. And yet his rating in OOTP is similarly lackluster. He's not even rated for having a fastball!

The Perfect Team rating for both is rather abysmal. All very puzzling.

Even more puzzling to me is that both pitchers have outperformed their ratings in sims I've done, though still underperforming their IRL stats.

Historical sim is my primary attraction to OOTP or any other sim, so this sort of shortcoming is particularly vexing to me. Thoughts?

12-21-2019, 08:45 PM	#1
kevin95630 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Folsom, California Posts: 37	Baffled by historical player ratings inaccuracies I imagine this has come up before, but I was not able to track down a thread on it, so here goes.... I'm thoroughly baffled by the historical player ratings. Coming out of the APBA tradition, I am accustomed to a high degree of accuracy in the ratings, and finding them perplexingly lacking in OOTP. While I greatly appreciate the depth of this game, I can't figure how the ratings are intended to correlate to IRL performance. Two examples I have recently encountered are the 1972 Clay Carroll and the 1963 Jim Bouton. In 72, Carroll was an ace in the Cincinnati bullpen. 37 saves in 92 IP, an ERA of 2.25 and other stats in line with an awesome rating (he was an A* in APBA). Yet his OOTP rating is fairly lackluster. Bouton in 63 was 21-7 for the Yankees, with an ERA of 2.53. He famously threw his arm out with his fastball that he threw so hard his hat would come off. And yet his rating in OOTP is similarly lackluster. He's not even rated for having a fastball! The Perfect Team rating for both is rather abysmal. All very puzzling. Even more puzzling to me is that both pitchers have outperformed their ratings in sims I've done, though still underperforming their IRL stats. Historical sim is my primary attraction to OOTP or any other sim, so this sort of shortcoming is particularly vexing to me. Thoughts?