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Originally Posted by PepeSylvia
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- Little care/attention seems to have gone into ratings. I know it is supposedly based on ZIPS but in some cases that doesn't appear to be the case. And some ratings not quantified by ZIPS like defense/range seem to be arbitrary in some cases.
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There are hundreds of hours and a ton of effort that goes into updating the ratings.
Obviously though, this is one of those areas where everyone can have their own opinion as to what's 'right' and I think reasonable people can disagree on that in a lot of cases.
As to some specific points, ZIPS is the base, but in certain cases it can end up being pretty heavily modified for one reason or another. For instance, in order to encourage the AI to get certain players onto MLB rosters, into starting lineups or rotations, out of MLB and into the minors, or to adjust where prospects fall in the prospect rankings etc. etc
As for the defensive ratings, I guess they are somewhat arbitrary, and I think this is probably the area where reasonable people can most easily disagree, since even a lot of the defensive metrics and scouting reports just do not agree with each other.
These are based on a combination of a lot of things, especially Baseball Savants runs saved, d-WAR from several different ratings systems as well as reputation and scouting reports. Because defensive metrics don't stabilize until you have around three years data though, we try not to overly emphasize the most recent year's data points.
Even after that, they also get tweaked even more to encourage the AI to set lineups and rosters as close to reality as possible.
Because the defensive ratings are so subjective though, we always welcome feedback on this and will make adjustments where needed. So if you see something here that looks glaringly off to you, please do feel free to comment on it here, and we can always take a second or a third look:
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=344802