Can performance in the majors give a boost to Potential/Overall?

[jumpinmp]

Hi everybody. I got the game recently, and I'm loving it. I haven't cared about baseball in over 20 years, but that's now changed lol.

I had a season where I needed to bring up a AAA starting pitcher. I picked the best performer in AAA. He played about the last half of the season in the Majors with: 86 FIP- 127 ERA+ 89.1 IP 3.43 ERA in 17 games started.

I made the playoffs and decided to roll with him. We somehow made the World Series, and he pitched a beauty of a series clincher in the 6th game.

Playoff Stats: 88 FIP- 122 ERA+ 30.1 IP 3.56 ERA in 5 games started and 1 relief appearance.

He just turned 26, and he's 2.5 OVR and 2.5 POT. He has 154 days in the majors. He had an appearance the previous year for 24 innings as a bad reliever in the majors.

Now to my question lol: Does a good performance in the majors like that better his chances to increase is Potential and Overall ratings? Does the game work that way?

I have really good coaching in place and ~$22M in development money.

Looking at the scouting history, it appears that starting in the Majors actually impacted his Stamina quite negatively. On purpose or coincidence, lol?

I've included a link to a screenshot of his scouting history.

https://imgur.com/gallery/pCCorJm

[kq76]

Welcome to OOTP.

Your link leads to a 404.

[jumpinmp]

Thanks.

This link should work. Maybe...

https://imgur.com/gallery/pCCorJm

[jumpinmp]

I got a response on Reddit that the rating reflects what the scout thinks, not the actual overall or potential of a player.

That makes a lot of sense to me, with how this game works.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by jumpinmp

I got a response on Reddit that the rating reflects what the scout thinks, not the actual overall or potential of a player.

That makes a lot of sense to me, with how this game works.

That's correct, the OV\Pot is not going to be affected by how a player performs.

Don't get too tied up in the overall\potential. Use that as a general guide for quick review of your roster. Look at the actual skill set of the player when it's decision time.

Is the player screen posted done with skills measured on the 1-100 scale or 20-80? I've used 2-8 for so long I'm not certain what I'm looking at. I also prefer a 20/80 by 5's in place of stars but, that is of course, down to each users opinion.

From what I am seeing in the screen the scout has it about right, IE bottom of the rotation for your guy. That doesn't mean he won't\can't out perform those ratings. Scout can always be off even when the reports are very high. Also as I said earlier actual skills matter and the devil can be in the details. In the text report the scout notes an above average fastball which can tip the scales a bit in his favor. Without seeing the front of his card and his pitches that's all we have to look at but... Always look at the pitch mix and quality of those pitches as part of your evaluation. They can make a difference. IOW there is a lot of nuance to your OOTP players, whether pitchers or batters, same as real life.

Welcome to the OOTP world and finding, as many others have before you, that OOTP has a way of bringing one back to baseball. Real world MLB over the years with money, drama, rules, cost of going to a game, the league making it harder to follow on tv rather than easier etc. etc. etc. has taken away from the luster the game once had. OOTP gives a lot of that back and more.

One friendly hint for future posts is you can upload your pictures directly into your posts. Below you'll see "additional options". In there go to "manage attachments" and you'll be all set. Easier for you and easier for the reader too.

Enjoy your game and come back when you have more questions. I think you'll find the community here helpful.

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by jumpinmp

I got a response on Reddit that the rating reflects what the scout thinks, not the actual overall or potential of a player.

That makes a lot of sense to me, with how this game works.

Well, I would say this is true...but only sort of true. It is definitely based on what the scout thinks. But, it's also very much based on AI Evaluation settings. Usually these settings have stats as a large part of the equation, so the players performances, combined with scout ability (depending on these settings) is what the OVR/POT rating comes out as.

[PSUColonel]

For those who are interested...at one time there was an option to "display OVR/POT grades based only on AI Evaluation". It was a checkbox in the scouting area of global settings, and if I remember correctly was checked by default...if you unchecked it, then the OVR/POT would be DISPLAYED only on the scouting grades. The AI would still take into account the AI evaluation settings.

Since this option was removed, the displayed OVR/POT will ALWAYS be tied to the AI evaluation settings. Now, in order to accomplish this, you would need to make your AI evaluation 100/0/0/0.

[PSUColonel]

As a very general guide regarding OVR I use the following for classifying my minor league players. I also look at stats, team needs and other factors, but as a general rule:

A player with a 25 overall grade is usually good at the A level.

A player with a 30 overall grade is a good fit at A+ or AA.

a 35 grade is good at AA or AAA

a 40 is good at AAA or ML

These are not hard and fast rules, and the individual tools and stats matter, but this is a reasonably good thumbnail way to get started.

[Pelican]

Your guy could be Marty Bystrom for the 1980 Phillies. Absolutely key player down the stretch and into the post-season. Never more than a back of the rotation guy after that. Injuries. I would evaluate your guy on the relatively small (but decent) sample, with the memorable post-season games getting no more weight. Clearly the guy has poise.