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Originally Posted by jcard
I did (or at least intended to be understood as so doing) in the last paragraph of my preceding post.
You may very well extensively comprehend the game engine. Generally speaking, however, there are a lot of claims made on this forum that are at best anecdotally supported. Similarly, I put no stock in the number of posts made as indicative of anything more than interest and volition. It is admittedly, however, a fine line between when best-guess contributions serve or hinder the discourse. I sometimes wish greater discretion was practiced, not the least by myself.
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I would add that better documentation and description of many of the game mechanics would alleviate a lot of the confusion. For example, I have never seen an authoritative presentation of how TCR works. All players? Only players still developing? “Talent” is used interchangeably with “potential” on some screens / reports; is that also true for its usage in TCR? Is the delta in particular attributes, or simply a general across the board improvement or decline (making the player a better or worse version of his pre-change archetype)? Given the stochastic element inherent in baseball and the difficulty in isolating specific variables for regression, it is difficult (and time-intensive) to arrive at answers with confidence.