The Draft Pool in OOTP23

[PSUColonel]

Usually players who are on a sort list have their name's listed in all capital letters...so yea there is a way to know if a player is on a shortlist, but as you already pointed out, it doesn't help with organizing your scouting assignments. The reason I feel it's needed is because you are dealing with SO many players in the draft pool, that you need to be able to see who is being scouted with an easy, quick glance.

Hopefully they will take this into consideration. I don't think this is the first time I have suggested this, but this time I submitted it as a project. That is usually the best way to get something noticed.

[PSUColonel]

I think there may be other issues going on also. When I first request the scouting reports, the icon is there. After leaving the draft pool page and then returning, none of the names' have the binocular icons. (even though they are being scouted)

If it's easier, I would be fine if the players' name's appeared in a certain color to depict this I'd be fine. That or they could adopt the little tags like FM has...which is nice because it enables each player to have multiple tag notifications. Alll you need to do is hover over them to magnify and see what they all are. SO scouting would be depicted with a SCT tag or a player on waivers would have a WAV tag etc...

[Cod]

Originally Posted by SirSaab

Just as a RL observation, I thought that, up until pretty recently, Dylan Lesko was considered a cut above the rest of this draft class? What happened there? Did he have a TJS (somewhere in my mind that sounds right)?

Committed to Vandy then blew out his UCL during a start on 20 March. He had TJS in April and started rehab last month. The Padres claim he was there guy from the start, even before the surgery. Even then, there are a few reports of evaluators being worried about how well the elbow will hold up after surgery and whether or not his movement will remain. Lesko was averaging just under ~3000 RPM on his curveball, which is insane while having 97-mph gas to go with it. Can his elbow produce that kind of torque after surgery? Guess we'll find out...

[Cod]

Would developing realistic NCAA and HS feeder leagues based on past data be the best way to shape draft classes going forward? Are there even enough options to manipulate enough of the data that would allow this?

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by Cod

Would developing realistic NCAA and HS feeder leagues based on past data be the best way to shape draft classes going forward? Are there even enough options to manipulate enough of the data that would allow this?

I don't think it's worth it. We have a pretty good mechanism for creating draft eligible players. Schools, stats, going to college, judo etc...I think it's a pretty realistic way of creating a draft pool. For 24, I'd like to see them put the same effort into international players.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

Usually players who are on a sort list have their name's listed in all capital letters...so yea there is a way to know if a player is on a shortlist, but as you already pointed out, it doesn't help with organizing your scouting assignments. The reason I feel it's needed is because you are dealing with SO many players in the draft pool, that you need to be able to see who is being scouted with an easy, quick glance.

Hopefully they will take this into consideration. I don't think this is the first time I have suggested this, but this time I submitted it as a project. That is usually the best way to get something noticed.

Hadn't thought about the capitalization.

For me once on one of my shortlist organizing is fairly easy. I sort by rating and mass select them to be scouted. Give or take 225 or so at a time. Over the next week or so you look at them and take any that have scouted to "high" and move them to the second folder (Draft Board) again with mass select. I normally have around 300 players after filtering for what I'm looking for. Mass select the next bunch and you should have everyone done, one time, with two passes.

Next phase take the "highs" on the Draft Board list and rescout them with the same mass select. They come back very high and it's time to rescout the next group. Once everyone has been scouted you can filter your lists by accuracy so all you see are players that are not yet very high. Keep rinsing and repeating until you cover your 300 targets.

If you develop a system it can work quite well.

There is a HS sort right in the menus that is easy enough to use so, IMHO, no reason to not have the binoculars overriding the * for HS.

[Cod]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

I don't think it's worth it. We have a pretty good mechanism for creating draft eligible players. Schools, stats, going to college, judo etc...I think it's a pretty realistic way of creating a draft pool. For 24, I'd like to see them put the same effort into international players.

Are you referring to a specific MLB quick start that contains good NCAA, Juco, HS, etc. feeder leagues? Or simply creating them ones self when starting a new save?

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by Cod

Are you referring to a specific MLB quick start that contains good NCAA, Juco, HS, etc. feeder leagues? Or simply creating them ones self when starting a new save?

I would say over the course of a long term save, the system in place is very good. Perhaps some refinements here or there (as with anything) but it does a very good realistic job of replicating what I think people are looking for. As I said, the same type of system/effort now needs to be focused on International players. There are many different types of international players, and in OOTP, none of them feel organic compared to draft eligible players.


EDIT: I could be wrong though...as I am finally sort of done testing, and now actually playing the game. I will see. Once you start moving at a slower more methodical pace things can look different. Even still, one thing I will lobby hard for is an international draft, as I feel it's coming anyway.

[Cod]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

EDIT: I could be wrong though...as I am finally sort of done testing, and now actually playing the game. I will see. Once you start moving at a slower more methodical pace things can look different. Even still, one thing I will lobby hard for is an international draft, as I feel it's coming anyway.

Do you have a quick start you would be willing to share with all the settings you settled on? Would love to see what kind of stuff you're seeing in the drafts on a year-to-year basis.

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by Cod

Do you have a quick start you would be willing to share with all the settings you settled on? Would love to see what kind of stuff you're seeing in the drafts on a year-to-year basis.

I do...Here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...Wq?usp=sharing

[Klew1986]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

I do...Here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...Wq?usp=sharing

Thanks for this. I was just going to ask for something like this n

[PSUColonel]

Just so you are aware, the Quickstart includes every league included in OOTP 23. It's not just a MLB league.


EDIT: One thing you can do for increased realism is to move the International FA signing period to to January 15th 2023. Not sure why this hasn't been reflected in game yet, but MLB has moved the international signing period to that date. (I would assume for some offseason buzz) So it's another change likely due to COVID.

I also changed the AI evaluation to 55/25/15/5


Outside of these two items, everything should be good to go!

[Cod]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

I do...Here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...Wq?usp=sharing

Much appreciated. I'll try to start playing with the start later tonight / this weekend. Interested to see what kind of results you're getting from the game.