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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
There are soooooo many factors at play here. The first thing I'd want to know is, how old are these players? The big gap between potential and current ratings implies that they're younger but that's not always the case. But beyond all this, it's entirely possible to have a successful offseason but then have other factors - TCR being the biggest one - cause things to go sideways in other ways. Even a younger player you might expect to just get better on his own might have a bad, random hit to his control or whatever that wound up being counterbalanced by the development lab and he just didn't develop much on his own this offseason for any number of reasons (one of which being that the particular "path" he's on calls for later-than-expected development bumps - yes, this is a thing the game does behind the scenes a bit).
Also, it needs to be pointed out that the dev lab is just plain not going to turn a guy with 35 control into a 75 control pitcher overnight, no matter what his potential ratings might be. If it did that, *that* would be the sign of a broken game because, like, if getting a player to fulfill his potentials was as easy as dropping him into a successful development lab or two, why don't players cash in on their potentials all the time? The nature of baseball is that it's hard to predict guys, especially very young players, actually turning into 100% of what they were "supposed" to become. Baseball is very, very much not basketball or football and also I think with both of those sports players get into the league/organization much, much closer to "major league" ready than in baseball as well. The draft is a crapshoot, there are lots and lots of busts and unrealized gems in every single draft, and nobody has it figured out.
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All of these players are prospects, 22 or under.
What is TCR? Is that the same thing as RNG (random number generator)? I just started playing this game recently, so I've only played, probably, 20-30 game seasons so far, but I have yet to complete successful training on a single player where I opened up his player screen and actually noticed an improvement. I have, however, noticed regressions like this many times. I've tried to rationalize these results from every direction, but I just can't anymore. There just isn't a rational explanation for this consistently poor result.
It's possible that I just don't understand the point of the development lab, or how it's supposed to work. I'm not expecting miracles to occur. My assumption is that if you have a prospect that ranks 30/70 in a certain area, the development lab can be used to improve the "current" rating 5-10 points, while also potentially impacting the "potential" rating if you're lucky.
Successful training should turn 30/70 into 40/70, or 35/75, no? I would expect successful training to result in incremental improvements -- just like real life. What I don't expect to see is consistent regression in the areas where prospects complete successful training. That just doesn't make any sense to me at all.