Overrated live players

MistaD72 · 03-22-2019, 06:38 PM

Is it just me, or are a lot of the live players rated higher than many historical players with similar or better numbers? And certainly higher than they were rated last year. A prime example being 66 HR 158 RBI Sammy Sosa of '98 being a 77 OVR with a 88 Power Rating vs. 34 HR 100 RBI Bryce Harper being a 100 OVR with 93 Power. All the era adjustments in the world wouldn't make that right. And Stanton's power is about 15 points better than it was in last years version despite a weak (by his standard) power season.
Anybody else notice this, or am I crazy?

rudel.dietrich · 03-22-2019, 07:08 PM

I think the current live cards are based on zips projections.
Then once the season begins their ratings will begin to fluctuate based on RL performance.
Also, IIRC zips is based on player playing a 162 game season. Therefore players like Harper who based on past per 162 game stats rates well, and his age is projected to have a great season despite his many injury problems.

For purely selfish PT related reasons, if you pull a highly rated live card, your best bet is for that player to suffer a real life season ending injury so that his rating says 'frozen'
Awful to wish that but in pure PT related terms most other companies who do 'live service' rosters like 2K, EA etc do not adjust a player downwards because of an injury.

atabakin · 03-22-2019, 07:09 PM

70% of players pulled at any tier (perfect, diamond, gold...) have to be live players. So think of live players and historical players on separate scales, because there have to be live perfect cards. Of course (most) live cards aren't going to be as good as their historical counterparts. That's why you need to look at the individual skill ratings and not just the top-level rating.

03-22-2019, 06:38 PM	#1
MistaD72 Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 13	Overrated live players Is it just me, or are a lot of the live players rated higher than many historical players with similar or better numbers? And certainly higher than they were rated last year. A prime example being 66 HR 158 RBI Sammy Sosa of '98 being a 77 OVR with a 88 Power Rating vs. 34 HR 100 RBI Bryce Harper being a 100 OVR with 93 Power. All the era adjustments in the world wouldn't make that right. And Stanton's power is about 15 points better than it was in last years version despite a weak (by his standard) power season. Anybody else notice this, or am I crazy?

03-22-2019, 07:08 PM	#2
rudel.dietrich Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Zürich, Switzerland Posts: 8,608 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	I think the current live cards are based on zips projections. Then once the season begins their ratings will begin to fluctuate based on RL performance. Also, IIRC zips is based on player playing a 162 game season. Therefore players like Harper who based on past per 162 game stats rates well, and his age is projected to have a great season despite his many injury problems. For purely selfish PT related reasons, if you pull a highly rated live card, your best bet is for that player to suffer a real life season ending injury so that his rating says 'frozen' Awful to wish that but in pure PT related terms most other companies who do 'live service' rosters like 2K, EA etc do not adjust a player downwards because of an injury.

03-22-2019, 07:09 PM	#3
atabakin All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 762	70% of players pulled at any tier (perfect, diamond, gold...) have to be live players. So think of live players and historical players on separate scales, because there have to be live perfect cards. Of course (most) live cards aren't going to be as good as their historical counterparts. That's why you need to look at the individual skill ratings and not just the top-level rating.