What ratings do you wish OOTP had?

[BestbatBoy]

does nobody ever create more leagues and want real players? this tool will be so much better if I had some help in running it through the paces. I can't work on this every day myself with my family and work responsibilities but I was on some PTO the last day + and have made many small changes, many quality of life updates, sooo much,

here in ChatGPTs own words is what has been accomplished just since late last night
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve made major structural progress on the player creation and evaluation framework, with a strong focus on realism, transparency, and seamless integration with OOTP’s existing databases. The biggest philosophical change is a full recalibration of current vs. potential ratings, especially for amateur players. High school players are now universally treated as Rookie/complex-level equivalents with very large current-to-potential gaps to preserve realistic bust and breakout outcomes, while college players enter the draft as AA-hold types at best, with the current–potential gap narrowing each year they spend in college. True fast-track players are now explicitly capped to a very small number per draft class.

We also formalized how lack of scouting buzz is interpreted, especially in the modern draft environment. For draft-eligible players (college seniors, redshirt juniors, JUCO sophomores, HS seniors/reclassified juniors), the absence of coverage from major outlets like Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, D1Baseball, and Perfect Game is now treated as a negative signal, not uncertainty. This led to the creation of a new named bucket — “Low-Helium Seniors / Fringe Amateurs” — where players have small current-to-potential gaps and realistic ceilings that reflect likely undrafted, indy, or early-exit career paths.

On the sourcing side, we built out formal Source Hierarchies for MLB Draft coverage and Minor League prospects, clearly defining which sites are authoritative, supplemental, contextual, or signal-only. Every player evaluation now includes a Source Verification section and a Confidence Tag (High / Medium / Low) that reflects how certain the evaluation is, not how talented the player is. Baseball-Reference’s age-vs-level context is now a core input for minor league evaluations, ensuring older-for-level players don’t accidentally receive upside they historically don’t have.

Finally, we added a new framework for non-MLB contract and salary information (foreign leagues, independent leagues, etc.) to better support OOTP’s financial systems outside MLB. Contract details are only used when verifiable, with clear confidence levels (Known / Inferred / Opaque), and conservative modeling when data isn’t available. As a vetted exception, MLB Trade Rumors is now accepted as a conditional trusted source for contract length and salary details when it cites established reporters or official announcements. Overall, these changes significantly improve realism, transparency, and long-term sim stability without requiring re-rating of existing players.

I know people are sometimes skeptical of AI but if this tool continues to progress we could easily end up with all the leagues we lost a few years ago, back with some minor adjustments to the team names in that one league. But this could easily allow modders to create leagues like that one, The LMB, Cuba, Australia and the major european leagues again in weeks versus months. I'd even share it with OOTP Developments to make life easier with the roster creation team once it is more fine tuned. This little GPT could be an absolute game changer for those of that miss what OOTP 22 had

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Originally Posted by BestbatBoy

does nobody ever create more leagues and want real players? this tool will be so much better if I had some help in running it through the paces. I can't work on this every day myself with my family and work responsibilities but I was on some PTO the last day + and have made many small changes, many quality of life updates, sooo much,

here in ChatGPTs own words is what has been accomplished just since late last night
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve made major structural progress on the player creation and evaluation framework, with a strong focus on realism, transparency, and seamless integration with OOTP’s existing databases. The biggest philosophical change is a full recalibration of current vs. potential ratings, especially for amateur players. High school players are now universally treated as Rookie/complex-level equivalents with very large current-to-potential gaps to preserve realistic bust and breakout outcomes, while college players enter the draft as AA-hold types at best, with the current–potential gap narrowing each year they spend in college. True fast-track players are now explicitly capped to a very small number per draft class.

We also formalized how lack of scouting buzz is interpreted, especially in the modern draft environment. For draft-eligible players (college seniors, redshirt juniors, JUCO sophomores, HS seniors/reclassified juniors), the absence of coverage from major outlets like Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, D1Baseball, and Perfect Game is now treated as a negative signal, not uncertainty. This led to the creation of a new named bucket — “Low-Helium Seniors / Fringe Amateurs” — where players have small current-to-potential gaps and realistic ceilings that reflect likely undrafted, indy, or early-exit career paths.

On the sourcing side, we built out formal Source Hierarchies for MLB Draft coverage and Minor League prospects, clearly defining which sites are authoritative, supplemental, contextual, or signal-only. Every player evaluation now includes a Source Verification section and a Confidence Tag (High / Medium / Low) that reflects how certain the evaluation is, not how talented the player is. Baseball-Reference’s age-vs-level context is now a core input for minor league evaluations, ensuring older-for-level players don’t accidentally receive upside they historically don’t have.

Finally, we added a new framework for non-MLB contract and salary information (foreign leagues, independent leagues, etc.) to better support OOTP’s financial systems outside MLB. Contract details are only used when verifiable, with clear confidence levels (Known / Inferred / Opaque), and conservative modeling when data isn’t available. As a vetted exception, MLB Trade Rumors is now accepted as a conditional trusted source for contract length and salary details when it cites established reporters or official announcements. Overall, these changes significantly improve realism, transparency, and long-term sim stability without requiring re-rating of existing players.

I know people are sometimes skeptical of AI but if this tool continues to progress we could easily end up with all the leagues we lost a few years ago, back with some minor adjustments to the team names in that one league. But this could easily allow modders to create leagues like that one, The LMB, Cuba, Australia and the major european leagues again in weeks versus months. I'd even share it with OOTP Developments to make life easier with the roster creation team once it is more fine tuned. This little GPT could be an absolute game changer for those of that miss what OOTP 22 had

This sounds incredible. I wish i could help, but I have neither the capabilities or time to assist. I really am intrigued at how what is called AI can add to the game. i think there is scope in so many ways, not least of which bespoke efforts like yours to add depth to the game.
Top effort!

[BestbatBoy]

while there is still finetuning to do. this GPT just created every single player that played in the pecos league in under 45 mins and ready to import into the game in less than 2 hours
Literally every single member of the Pecos league
I am still teaching it about completely getting current vs potential. It still wants to leave some potentials higher than ideal. Which would cause users that have turned down their TCR setting, then the players could become too good sometimes. but we are so close at this point