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Originally Posted by mrpoopistan
I'm not talking about Acuna as ever being an 80-grade prospect. I'm talking about Acuna as an 80-grade current value player. Which is I think is a fair description of a guy who went 8+ fWAR last year and is on track for 7-ish this year IRL. If you see Acuna as a 60-grade prospect who blossomed into an 80-grade pro, that's fine for the point of discussion here.
My point is that the game never generates a single player like Acuna. Ever. Regardless of prospect status. No generated players ever make it out of the DR league alive to become even all-stars, let alone MVPs. 80-grade or 20-grade. That is a very not-baseball outcome.
The same goes for generated US high schoolers. They never make it in my sims. Ever.
The only hope a generated player has in OOTP25 is as a slightly developed college player who's 21 years of age or older.
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I saw you mentioned about players developing over 6 years in a previous post. Is that how long your current game has played that has no 80 grade players?
I ask this because with a quick google search I found there are 270 players ever, since the literal invention of baseball as a professional sport, who have had a WAR equal to Acuna last year, or better, in a single year.
270 players out of roughly just over 20,500 MLB level players ever. That is .013% of players. How many of these 80 grade players are you expecting to see?
Edit: actually it's less than 270 because there are repeat performances by multiple players, like Mayes.
So even if you took it as .013% of players, likely being very generous with that percent, and round the current amount of MLB players to 780 (26x30), that's equal to .10 players should be 80 grade every year.