How much do coaches matter?

Cynical · 05-28-2020, 05:48 PM

So, I recently fired my pitching coach (his rating was "poor" and he had a good relation with exactly one player on the team; not sure why on Earth he was here in the first place), and replaced him with an "average" reputation coach with good relations with several players. I've noticed very little -- possibly no -- difference in my pitchers' performance. Do coaches really matter very much? How much should I churn through them? The manual doesn't give very much information about their effect at all.

CBeisbol · 05-28-2020, 05:53 PM

There are about a million threads on coaches.

The mostly come to the same conclusion - nobody knows how they work

Coaches have ratings. These ratings cover things like how well they work with players, and how well they can teach skills. There's no way to see these ratings outside of the editor. And no direct way to see their effects.

I'm surely in the minority on this, but I think that's good because understanding how good a coach is is much more difficult than understanding how good a player is.

One could take the time to study coaches and see how much impact they have - both on development and performance.

05-28-2020, 05:48 PM	#1
Cynical Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2020 Posts: 50	How much do coaches matter? So, I recently fired my pitching coach (his rating was "poor" and he had a good relation with exactly one player on the team; not sure why on Earth he was here in the first place), and replaced him with an "average" reputation coach with good relations with several players. I've noticed very little -- possibly no -- difference in my pitchers' performance. Do coaches really matter very much? How much should I churn through them? The manual doesn't give very much information about their effect at all.

05-28-2020, 05:53 PM	#2
CBeisbol Banned Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Ban land in 3...2... Posts: 2,943	There are about a million threads on coaches. The mostly come to the same conclusion - nobody knows how they work Coaches have ratings. These ratings cover things like how well they work with players, and how well they can teach skills. There's no way to see these ratings outside of the editor. And no direct way to see their effects. I'm surely in the minority on this, but I think that's good because understanding how good a coach is is much more difficult than understanding how good a player is. One could take the time to study coaches and see how much impact they have - both on development and performance. Last edited by CBeisbol; 05-28-2020 at 05:54 PM.