Ratings - Stats Only Hybrid

[Kasabian]

Hey guys,

I've been playing OOTP for the past couple years using standard ratings but have found myself too concentrated on the ratings.

I prefer to play the standard MLB games.

With it in mind that the usual stats only doesn't really work for MLB games because of drafting, any recommendations for a way to play being more stats focused?

I was thinking Overall - off, Potential - stars, Potential ratings - 2 to 8, other player ratings - 2 to 8...

and here's the big one, player actual ratings - 2 to 8...

My thinking is GMs in real life have scouts who'd give them a numerical estimations of a players skill so its more realistic to have it on.

What do you guys think?

I'm also thinking of doing the Wolf's 10/60/20/10 ratings (as mentioned in the 'Kudos' thread) as I think it would work well with this kind of hybrid set up.

Any other suggestions for hybridization?

[slugga27]

Turn off ratings and potential. Leave "other ratings" on--you choose the scale.

For drafting, I temporarily turn overall/potential ratings on and put it on a 20-80 scale, just like they are IRL.

[Kasabian]

Hmm, makes sense.

But soon after the draft, how would you keep track of the stat-less draftees? - for what reason you drafted them, what you saw in them that made you draft them

[Matt Arnold]

I personally like actuals off, potentials as stars and 2-8. Then you always see potentials, but you need to check stats to see how close they are to actually reaching that potential.

I find playing with no ratings too much work, but my above is a good balance with a good fog of war as well.

But I think the key is to simply play around with what you want. If you want ratings on, I won't stop you

[Fyrestorm3]

I play with Overall and Potential ratings on, in the form of stars (with AI Eval set to 10/50/30/10), actual and potential ratings off, and other ratings on, using the 2-8 scale. I find it gives me a good balance; the star ratings give me an at-a-glance overview of how a player is doing/projected, while not being enough to get me caught up in the ratings.

This is just how I like to play; like Matt, I suggest experimenting and determining what feels best to you.

[Kasabian]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

I personally like actuals off, potentials as stars and 2-8. Then you always see potentials, but you need to check stats to see how close they are to actually reaching that potential.

I find playing with no ratings too much work, but my above is a good balance with a good fog of war as well.

But I think the key is to simply play around with what you want. If you want ratings on, I won't stop you

Probably will give this a try!

Thanks all!

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

I personally like actuals off, potentials as stars and 2-8. Then you always see potentials, but you need to check stats to see how close they are to actually reaching that potential.

I find playing with no ratings too much work, but my above is a good balance with a good fog of war as well.

But I think the key is to simply play around with what you want. If you want ratings on, I won't stop you

Matt's right: play around with everything until you finally get the game that you want.