MLB Quickstart Player Ratings

Chomps · 12-18-2013, 12:34 PM

I was wondering how player ratings for the MLB Quickstart are determined.

As I understand it, a hardworking group of volunteers manually enter all the data for each MLB player and Minor League player using baseballreference.com stats for the previous season.

Is this accurate?

injury log · 12-18-2013, 02:07 PM

If you have a specific question, I'd be happy to answer it, but the process is too complicated for me to want to write up a long post describing all of it.

The Wolf · 12-18-2013, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Chomps

I was wondering how player ratings for the MLB Quickstart are determined.

As I understand it, a hardworking group of volunteers manually enter all the data for each MLB player and Minor League player using baseballreference.com stats for the previous season.

Is this accurate?

Using projections. There, done.

Lukas Berger · 12-18-2013, 03:07 PM

The MLB players are rated using PECOTA's projections, Wolf's right on that.

The MiLB player's ratings are a bit more complicated, just like injury log said.

Are you concerned about something specific or just generally wondering?

Chomps · 12-18-2013, 04:41 PM

No, I did not have anything specific. Just wondering what is involved and what data sources are used.

A friend that plays another baseball sim asked me about it, and I realized that I didn't really understand how the player ratings are determined.

Lukas Berger · 12-18-2013, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Chomps

No, I did not have anything specific. Just wondering what is involved and what data sources are used.

A friend that plays another baseball sim asked me about it, and I realized that I didn't really understand how the player ratings are determined.

We use a lot of different data sources. Pretty much anything that's available, especially for MiLB guys and draft picks.

We pretty much get all the stats from baseball ref.

The MLB players are all rated based on their PECOTA projections.

For milb/draft ratings we also use Clay Davenports projections/translations, scouting reports from Baseball America, John Sickels, Keith Law, Perfect Game etc.

Really whatever we can find to give us enough info to come up with decent ratings. The MiLB and draft/international ratings are really part science and part art since we don't have any fully reliable projection system like PECOTA to go on for most of those players.

12-18-2013, 12:34 PM	#1
Chomps Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Taiwan Posts: 455	MLB Quickstart Player Ratings I was wondering how player ratings for the MLB Quickstart are determined. As I understand it, a hardworking group of volunteers manually enter all the data for each MLB player and Minor League player using baseballreference.com stats for the previous season. Is this accurate?

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Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 21,477	The MLB players are rated using PECOTA's projections, Wolf's right on that. The MiLB player's ratings are a bit more complicated, just like injury log said. Are you concerned about something specific or just generally wondering? Last edited by Lukas Berger; 12-18-2013 at 03:09 PM.

12-18-2013, 02:07 PM	#2
injury log Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto Posts: 9,162	If you have a specific question, I'd be happy to answer it, but the process is too complicated for me to want to write up a long post describing all of it.

12-18-2013, 04:41 PM	#5
Chomps Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Taiwan Posts: 455	No, I did not have anything specific. Just wondering what is involved and what data sources are used. A friend that plays another baseball sim asked me about it, and I realized that I didn't really understand how the player ratings are determined.