Draft Dodger - I am thinking of let's say taking a player that is not a prospect, for argument sake I will take in my opinion one of the worst players of all time Catcher Joe Nolan - The besspectacled catcher for the Braves and Reds.
He was never a prospect and his ratings are in the 4 range, in my 1962 league now in 1979, the Mets have acquired his services and he is batting .285 with 7 homers and 35 RBI's nearly midway through the season with 4 type ratings.
The Mets have Joe Torre recovering from injury and 38 years old and Bruce Eggs Benedict in AAA, so Nolan may not be needed next year. Let's say Nolan bats .279 and hits 12 homers and drives in 65 runs for 1979 standards. His ratings should go up to 5-5 or something like that based on a matrix whereby it tskes into account years of service, career stats versus the fluke year.
Mainly, because Nolan should be a bit better as a player now having tasted some success and also because on the trade market he would have more value than his ratings.
Now Nolan gets recomputed for 1980 and he is a 5-5, doesn't mean he will put up big numbers, he could easily drop to 3 HR, 33 RBI and .225 AVG, but at least he has improved somewhat.
Even Brook Jacoby never returned to his horrible status, an injury did that player in.
John Vanderwal will never put up the big numbers again but he will be better than he was before he tasted success.
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