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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
Matt would probably have to explain the specific details more so than I could, if he wanted to. But the main point I wanted to get across is that the OOTP ratings, whether relative or absolute are not comparative in the same way that the 20-80 real-life scouting scale is.
Obviously the relative ratings in OOTP are comparative and will fluctuate if the league's talent level does (you can see this just by switching to compare MLB against a minor league).
Even then though, they are not comparative in the same way that the real-life scouting scale is. They don't work on the basis of standard deviations like the real-life scale does.
The real-life scale treats 50 as average and each 10 points above or below represent a full-standard deviation off average. OOTP's 20-80 scale doesn't do this. So even where the ratings are comparative, 50 doesn't necessarily represent a perfect average of all the players currently in the league, and 80 does not represent three standard deviations in skill level above 50.
So judging OOTP ratings using the real-life scouting scale is going to result in misjudging things, since they do not use the same basis for calculations. OOTP can and most usually will have more 80 level players than the real-life scale ever would and depending on the specific league, 50 may or may not actually represent the average rating in OOTP. Using the real-life scale, it would always represent an average rating.
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As someone who is just fascinated by how the game works "under the hood", can I suggest that the details of the rating system would make for a super interesting episode of the podcast!