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Originally Posted by italyprof
Just as a .300 hitter in AA does not translate into a good player in the majors, whether someone's .300 average or 2.30 ERA is considered to have been at AA or in MLB makes all the difference for the ratings. The players and their talents have not changed. They were ALWAYS major league quality play, as the results of the early Negro Leaguers who joined MLB showed, but since their league was classified as a minor league, OOTP treated their stats as such, which was always an error, but one justified by MLB's classification. So an upgrade of their play in the game is very much in order.
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While I have no special insight into OOTP's methodology in rating Negro League players, I quite sure that it's not as mechanical as you suggest.
No one disputes that the top tier of the Negro Leagues were as talented as the best players on the other side of the color line. OOTP's ratings are consistent with that. So far as I can see, Negro League stars are also stars in the OOTP Major League.
On the other hand, I seriously doubt (though I'm willing to be set right by evidence) that the overall quality of competition in the Negro Leagues equaled that of their white counterparts. If it didn't, an average NNL player is accurately rated below the average of MLB.