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Originally Posted by Zooerp
In real life, "Current Ability", as it's evaluated by MLB teams to inform their decisions, is a suggestion, not a fact.
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No. In real life, current ability is a player's ability to play baseball. There actually is no such thing as a rating for this — the best we can do is use his stats to assess his current ability, and stats are data.
Current ability in the game is a rating that generates a player's stats. It's a number, like 236 or 464, on a scale, let's say 550 or 600. The game must have a number that it uses to create results. Think of how tabletop baseball games work. You roll the dice, you get a result, you check the result against a result table, and there you have it, a plate appearance or a stolen base attempt. If you've been around long enough you know that OOTP used to work exactly this way.
We may not be able to see this number — I don't believe we can — but at some point in the process, the game is converting some sort of Current Ability data into outcomes. That the game is also obscuring this data in some way may be why a person would think that Current Ability is (ought to be) a suggestion. But even if Current Ability ratings are variables, they are still numbers that lead to outcomes.
Potential ability can never be data, since it describes the future.