Rob: What exactly gets boosted when I successfully boost a card?
OOTPD: The player’s hitting ratings, pitching ratings and position ratings get boosted up for every successful boost. Like I mentioned before, this can be anywhere from 8 to 13 points depending on how high the attribute was to begin with.
Rob: Why not the defensive ratings? Don’t those influence position ratings?
OOTPD: That’s a great question. Due to some technical issues of how defensive ratings are calculated and used, the individual component ratings are not shown boosted on the cards, but in-game the actual defensive performance will use the boosted ratings. So some of the in-game defensive values will play higher than the component ratings shown on the player profile.
It would be appreciated if OOTP could tell us specific information relating to the defense boosts.
The statement suggests some but not all def ratings are boosted - please tell us which and to what extent the boost is.
Likewise, are any of the components of batting ratings affected (speed, baserunning etc)?
I know the math may be difficult, but I personally prefer to know what I am getting for my PP. The game has become more transparent about the 'hidden card ratings' such as BABIP, but unfortunately some aspects of the Combinator release are opaque.
Thanks