[Garlon]

I did a second test and set Leo Jimenez to 1/599 for batting ratings.

He finished the season with 357 AB .263/.391/.406 with 96 OPS+.

Matt would need to verify if this is intended or not. Maybe something weird is happening once you pass 500 potential ratings? Maybe the game is not handling such a wide gap between current and potential.

As for the 1 batting rating being able to produce a .184 BA, I suspect there is some type of floor at the minor league levels holding up the player performance with respect to their potential rating where the game possibly does not see 1 any different than it sees a 90 or something. Whereas if you put that player with a 1 rating at the MLB level that floor will go much lower to like .050 BA and it be propped up by potential ratings.

If there is a floor at the minor league level maybe this is intended so that other players do not end up with weird stats. For example, if you were to move a ton of these types of players into all the AAA teams and have them face a legitimate MLB ready SP, maybe that pitcher would have like 19 K per 9 innings or something because he is not facing players who are legitimately at a comparable level. While you might say that is realistic, it would make it just as difficult to make a stats only decision on such a pitcher because he was not really facing AAA competition.

Maybe there are floors in place at various levels to prevent generating outrageous stat results.

There may also be something happening with respect to potential ratings above 500 (or maybe it is 550 I do not know where the problem begins) that is raising the floor of the player. Maybe this is to guarantee development at extreme levels or maybe it is just some overflow bug as Brad K suggested.