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Four Thoughts (Running; Negro League Stats; Minors; Spring Training)
Love the game. Four suggestions:
1. Revamp the algo that determines Speed/Steal/Baserunning. It seems when there isn't a ton of data available, such as in the Negro Leagues or for minor leaguers who had almost no MLB service time, the default is to set all three categories <10. The overwhelming majority of players in the minors have absolutely no running skills whatsoever, which does not make intuitive sense. Shouldn't they be at least average at speed and baserunning?
It's not just the minors. Consider a rather ordinary case of an MLB player: Vince Dimaggio. Not a prolific base stealer, but he was good for about 10 steals a year, and very efficient. Played a lot of CF. Did not hit triples. In the game I'm playing, he was a major league hitter, but all three of his running stats were between 4 and 6 on a scale of 100.
2. An offshoot of my running suggestion is for Negro Leaguers generally. The default profile stats are often skewed. One of the more glaring ones is injuries, where the algo seems to think a larger proportion of the players are fragile, maybe because there were fewer games played in real life in the NeL? The algo also seems thrown off as to pitcher stamina, with a large proportion of NeL starters having stamina in the 60s (on a 100 scale) or lower...pushing them into RP territory.
3. Please consider another workaround for partial minor league rosters, other than globally allowing ghost players across all levels. Maybe tie the ghost player setting to the specific league, instead of it being global? This is particularly troubling when a minor league season starts during MLB spring training, where some of the minor rosters are depleted by players getting an invite.
4. Can we get a Player Dev update automatically after spring training? As it is, I get one at the start of each month, but sometimes 10 days spring training has begun, and then the next one is a couple of weeks after spring training, after I've already made some roster decisions. Seems like at the end of ST there would be new scouting info based on what happened in ST, and I would like to have that ASAP, not just on the scheduled monthly report.
Thanks!
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