Drafted Players view in League History Index

ToTheBackstop · 05-02-2015, 03:05 AM

It's really cool that OOTP provides the Drafted Players view in the League History Index so that a user can review past draft classes and compare how various draft selections wound up performing career-wise. I'd like to suggest a couple of enhancements for consideration.

Addition of a WAR column to the Batters table and Pitchers table. Right now, with the current view a user can identify stuff like "Who wound up hitting the most homers in this draft class?" and so forth, but is unable to address the most obvious question -- which player(s) in the draft class wound up being the most valuable, or provided the most value in their career? i.e. Who was the "best" player in the draft class?
A tally for cumulative WAR for the year's draft class. This would allow for direct comparisons between different year's draft classes -- i.e. "The 1976 draft class was pretty weak with only 48.3 WAR, but the 1977 draft class was one of the best ever: they amassed 179 WAR in total."
Prioritizing major league totals over minor league totals when sorting table columns. Currently, you can sort columns by clicking the column header. However, this just sorts by raw numbers -- i.e. if sorting by games player, a career of 205 major league games is treated the same as a career of 205 minor league games. I'd like to suggest that sorting goes by: major league values, highest to lowest, then minor league values, highest to lowest.

05-02-2015, 03:05 AM	#1
ToTheBackstop Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 151	Drafted Players view in League History Index It's really cool that OOTP provides the Drafted Players view in the League History Index so that a user can review past draft classes and compare how various draft selections wound up performing career-wise. I'd like to suggest a couple of enhancements for consideration. Addition of a WAR column to the Batters table and Pitchers table. Right now, with the current view a user can identify stuff like "Who wound up hitting the most homers in this draft class?" and so forth, but is unable to address the most obvious question -- which player(s) in the draft class wound up being the most valuable, or provided the most value in their career? i.e. Who was the "best" player in the draft class? A tally for cumulative WAR for the year's draft class. This would allow for direct comparisons between different year's draft classes -- i.e. "The 1976 draft class was pretty weak with only 48.3 WAR, but the 1977 draft class was one of the best ever: they amassed 179 WAR in total." Prioritizing major league totals over minor league totals when sorting table columns. Currently, you can sort columns by clicking the column header. However, this just sorts by raw numbers -- i.e. if sorting by games player, a career of 205 major league games is treated the same as a career of 205 minor league games. I'd like to suggest that sorting goes by: major league values, highest to lowest, then minor league values, highest to lowest.