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Originally Posted by turtle4499
While I agree with you, the game current has 40 as 300, 50 as 400, and 75 as 500. Or 35, 50, 90 on 1-100.
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Which means, at least in terms of the absolute scale, that whatever the organizing principle of the rating system, it is NOT standard deviations. A standard deviation of a given statistic is a particular measurement of variation expressed in units of that statistic. There is no positive SD or negative SD: in other words, a 40 and a 60 rating in Contact should indicate batting averages around the mean batting average.
Now, it could still be the case that ratings are distributed so as to approximate standard deviation values in not the absolute scale but rather the league-relative scale. I havenĀ’t used my v25 yet, but experience with at least how the player editor operates in previous versions I would need to see this proven to be true before accepting it as such. The conversion from the absolute scale to the relative (again, at least so far as was expressed within the editor) was always (except for perhaps far outlier ratings) a uniform simple mechanical process:
1) Relative scale 2x granularity of absolute scale
2) Relative “average” (however defined) is 50 on relative scale
3) The original absolute 50 is still the point at where a scale shift of equal magnitude occurs on the relative scale for attributes where applicable.***
***This means that to assess the difference between two ratings for one of these attributes you need to know where the ABSOLUTE 50 is located on the RELATIVE scale. Depending on the league average, two given ratings in one of these attributes on one league’s relative scale can (in the editor, at least) indicate a performance gap up to twice as large as would the same two relative ratings in another league.
Really, it is time that OOTP incorporated an option some format of displaying the scout attributes grades as baseball statistics. Put basically, using the editor function (probably the league-relative one) on scouted ratings instead and displaying the translated statistics (perhaps splits, etc., as well) in front-facing UI screens and pop-ups. The tea-leaves reading to try to divine just what your scout is saying is not representative of how any competent organization (baseball or otherwise) communicates internally.