Player Development Report --Wait...What?

[Leo_The_Lip]

I really want to like the new Player Development Report,

However:

What does any of it mean?

Examples (very typical) from my most recent fictional league abound:

Billy Warner, Age 32, St Louis Browns
+Current Speed improves from 6 to 7
Potential Rating drops from 2.5 to 2.0 stars

Huh?

RF Horace Hastings, age 28, St Louis Browns
-Current eye rating drops from 11 to 10
Overall rating improves from 2.5 to 3.0 stars
Potential rating improves from 2.5 to 3.5 stars

Double Huh?

CL Ellis Hughes, age 29, St Joseph Browns
-Current control rating drops from 11 to 10
+Overall rating improves from 1.5 to 2.0 stars (As SP)
-Potential rating drops from 2.0 to 1.5 stars (As SP)

Hughes is the St J closer, has always been a closer and has never started a game at any level in his entire career.

So why rate him as a starter?

George Holmes, age 22, AAA
Five lines of good news followed by even better:
Added a fastball to his repertoire.

So I check Mr. Holmes and find his fastball is a yellow 9/10, his third best pitch. But low and behold there is a new fourth pitch, a 2/2 changeup.

So why did it say fastball?

These are typical mysteries in the Development Report. All too often the line items point one way, and the overall and/or potential rating goes the other without a word of explanation.

This report is a great idea, but why can't it make consistent sense?

[le receveur]

i'll try to interprete

Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

I really want to like the new Player Development Report,

However:

What does any of it mean?

Examples (very typical) from my most recent fictional league abound:

Billy Warner, Age 32, St Louis Browns
+Current Speed improves from 6 to 7
Potential Rating drops from 2.5 to 2.0 stars

Huh?

Warner has improved his speed. I think this one is obvious, not sure what the issue would be.
Oh and btw compare to his peers, is future is down, probably expected from someone at 32...

Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

RF Horace Hastings, age 28, St Louis Browns
-Current eye rating drops from 11 to 10
Overall rating improves from 2.5 to 3.0 stars
Potential rating improves from 2.5 to 3.5 stars

Double Huh?

Eye rating is down. warning that things may turn soon

however it seems your league's RF have dropped even further.

Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

CL Ellis Hughes, age 29, St Joseph Browns
-Current control rating drops from 11 to 10
+Overall rating improves from 1.5 to 2.0 stars (As SP)
-Potential rating drops from 2.0 to 1.5 stars (As SP)

Hughes is the St J closer, has always been a closer and has never started a game at any level in his entire career.

So why rate him as a starter?

Maybe your scout thinks he would better used as a Starter, and you are wasting talent leaving him at RP where he is under used.

Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

George Holmes, age 22, AAA
Five lines of good news followed by even better:
Added a fastball to his repertoire.

So I check Mr. Holmes and find his fastball is a yellow 9/10, his third best pitch. But low and behold there is a new fourth pitch, a 2/2 changeup.

So why did it say fastball?

These are typical mysteries in the Development Report. All too often the line items point one way, and the overall and/or potential rating goes the other without a word of explanation.

This report is a great idea, but why can't it make consistent sense?

this I don't know, never pay attention to that.

[hefalumps]

Yeah I agree it's confusing. Keep in mind that the potential and overall ratings are based on comparing the player to other players (either globally or at that player's position depending on settings). So even though your SP's stamina might have improved slightly, it's possible that several other SPs in your league have improved *more*, so that could explain why one specific rating went up but his overall or potential went down.

But one thing that drives me nuts regardless is the pitcher's ratings - whether they're viewed as SP/MR/CL, what makes the AI decide which "suggested role" they should have when they're evaluated - I haven't been able to make sense of that at all.

[Tyler87898]

I'm guessing for the guy that added a fastball to his pitches already had that 2/2 changeup, as many pitchers in OOTP are made with an extra really bad pitch (usually relievers in my experience). The fastball is still the new pitch, it's just already way better than that changeup will ever be.

[Leo_The_Lip]

Thanks for the comments, they helped me ferment further thoughts.

Yes, adding the fastball could be correct, but I've never seen an added pitch come in so high before. Could easily be me, though.

My issue with the comparison to other players is not that it is incorrect, rather I expect the Player Development Report to give me key information about my players, not general data about the league as a whole. By that I mean if my players get worse (aging and such) but are now relatively better because the league as a whole has gotten worse at this point in time, is misleading.

Here I assume that talent has been subtracted from the league, most notably from injuries. That always tends to happen as the season progresses, so basing a 'key report' using that as a base line is not very helpful.

It seems I'm looking for data the game is not designed to provide, that is, an overall look at my players' development independent of the flux of injuries in the game.