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Everyone still playing around with this? Any discoveries on your part @squirrel?
I still very much enjoy it, especially around the trade deadline. It's absolutely a contrast machine and not a stat projection, I'm not certain what it would take to drag that part closer. I used to think OOTP calculator (with the simpler stat basis) wasn't horrible at times, but it served the same purpose - comparison.
There are values in pitching that it seems too biased towards. My example will make more sense to any Tiger fans among you, but pitchers like Jack Flaherty, high stuff, low HRA, are punished to the point you'll always be told he's a horrible cancer to your staff instead of the 2nd or 3rd best starter he will always be. Meanwhile, mediocre talents with a groundball tendency will often be projected as your no argument #2 starter (we have Skubal, nothing gets him wrong). Batting projections are far less chaotic.
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