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tucky22 · 03-20-2024, 08:24 PM

I've also noticed an underwhelming improvement of players through the Development Lab, especially when receiving the Outstanding completion. I believe the ratio between the 4 completion types and rewards for the first 3 are fair, but I was unhappy with the outstanding rewards. Sometimes I saw no potential increase or even an Outstanding New Pitch only netted a 45 potential. So I created a test league and have ran about 10 seasons worth of labs with 20 players every offseason in commissioner mode to track the actual increases. I have noticed that:
-When a player has a potential of <475(~70 potential) I noticed 0 increase in potential, although depending on development level a large increase in current ratings did occur
-When the player has a potential between 375-425 (~50-55) I noticed an increase of 0-17 potential gain with a fair amount of current rating development
- When the player was 275-325(~40-45) I notice a 20-43 increase in potential and again, a fair amount of current rating development.
These increases were the same between pitchers and hitters, and I haven't noticed a difference between difficulty levels. Again, the new outstanding pitch learned is anything but an "above average" pitch as the development report says, even after a few more years of development, I saw minimum upgrade in potential (again highest reached a 376 or ~45 overall). I wasn't expecting to be able to turn my 45 power outfielder into an 65 power guy over one offseason, but an outstanding result should end up more than a 3% max return on average/above average talents, even if it does decrease other stats, such as k rate in this scenario.

Last thought is on the New Pitch and Secondary Pitch Improvement categories, is there any way to incorporate a way for us to select the pitch type they work on/try to learn? I don't need my fastball/cutter pitcher to learn a sinker or fastball/sinker guy to learn a cutter, which tends to happen. And selecting which pitch type to improve on would be nice, especially when a guy has a 4 pitch repertoire and there is one bad pitch you want him to improve or even drop.

03-20-2024, 08:24 PM	#50
tucky22 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2024 Posts: 1	I've also noticed an underwhelming improvement of players through the Development Lab, especially when receiving the Outstanding completion. I believe the ratio between the 4 completion types and rewards for the first 3 are fair, but I was unhappy with the outstanding rewards. Sometimes I saw no potential increase or even an Outstanding New Pitch only netted a 45 potential. So I created a test league and have ran about 10 seasons worth of labs with 20 players every offseason in commissioner mode to track the actual increases. I have noticed that: -When a player has a potential of <475(~70 potential) I noticed 0 increase in potential, although depending on development level a large increase in current ratings did occur -When the player has a potential between 375-425 (~50-55) I noticed an increase of 0-17 potential gain with a fair amount of current rating development - When the player was 275-325(~40-45) I notice a 20-43 increase in potential and again, a fair amount of current rating development. These increases were the same between pitchers and hitters, and I haven't noticed a difference between difficulty levels. Again, the new outstanding pitch learned is anything but an "above average" pitch as the development report says, even after a few more years of development, I saw minimum upgrade in potential (again highest reached a 376 or ~45 overall). I wasn't expecting to be able to turn my 45 power outfielder into an 65 power guy over one offseason, but an outstanding result should end up more than a 3% max return on average/above average talents, even if it does decrease other stats, such as k rate in this scenario. Last thought is on the New Pitch and Secondary Pitch Improvement categories, is there any way to incorporate a way for us to select the pitch type they work on/try to learn? I don't need my fastball/cutter pitcher to learn a sinker or fastball/sinker guy to learn a cutter, which tends to happen. And selecting which pitch type to improve on would be nice, especially when a guy has a 4 pitch repertoire and there is one bad pitch you want him to improve or even drop.