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07-20-2013, 08:45 PM | #21 |
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Exactly. So why remove them? Those who don't like/understand them can remove them for yourselves by turning them off. Give the rest of us the option to keep using them if we want.
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07-20-2013, 09:18 PM | #23 |
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He wasn't confused, he said it was re-done and consequently would not be an issue. This just isn't the case. Sorry.
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07-20-2013, 09:21 PM | #24 |
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07-20-2013, 09:57 PM | #25 | |
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Did you check anything I said? Uh, no. Yet you keep on posting here that there is a terrible problem that must be fixed and that you have no idea why you are being ignored......THERE IS NOTHING TO FIX. Please try to follow along......Ryan Ludwick gets 1.5 stars as a LF with 10(10), 11(13), 11/(11) on a 20 scale. There are 57 LFers in the league that get 2 stars or more. I retire all 57 of those players. I rerun scouting. Ludwick is still 10(10), 11(13), 11(11), but is now 4.5 stars. Why? Because he is now a big stud fish in a shrunken pond. So, what is it that is the problem with ANYTHING you have posted???? |
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07-20-2013, 10:08 PM | #27 |
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VG, not to be rude or anything, but I think you're completely missing what PSUColonel is upset about.
Sure, if you re-run scouting, the star ratings change. The issue here is that OCCASIONALLY (I stress occasionally), a player will have different Star Ratings on the different tabs of his profile. It might say the guy is 1.5 Overall on the main Profile tab, but if you switch it over to the Scouting Reports tab, suddenly he's a 3.0 Overall. No re-scouting has occurred, and in fact, if you do re-scout, it doesn't change a thing. The profile is giving one rating, while the scouting report is giving another, and both are occurring at the same moment in time. I've seen it myself, once or twice. Now, it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers PSUColonel, but I do agree that the ratings should be uniform, and I don't understand why this happens. |
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In the link I posted to the previous thread, I addressed this very issue there, months ago. Last edited by VanillaGorilla; 07-21-2013 at 04:52 AM. |
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07-20-2013, 10:27 PM | #29 |
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My bad for not checking the link. I'll accept that explanation; I've never really found it to be an issue, I've just noticed it from time to time.
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His concern has been logged. Again. I've added my own comments and links to appropriate threads. Nothing further will be gained until we get yet another response from Markus indicating just how the scout recoding affected any change in this area. Beyond that, discuss, but I suggest we do so with civility and respect for other points of view.
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07-21-2013, 12:20 AM | #32 | |
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I haven't gone back to look at ALL of the same day discrepancies pictured in all of the threads, but there is a commonality amongst them. The players who are posted that gain stars (more than a half) are from the end of the season. This is when players become free agents and leave the pool of rostered players which elevates the star ratings of the remaining players as I illustrated with Ludwick. The players posted who lose stars (more than a half) are coming at the start of the season as the Spring Training rosters are no more and the active rosters across the board go to 25. The 1/2 star AAA types are no longer bringing down the average and distribution of the talent and the remaining payers who were average in comparison to all players active for ST are now below average, which is the math of the star model. Markus, Lukas, yourself, injurylog, or anyone else that has a more intimate understanding of the software is free to say "VG, you are full of banana barf, and here is why...." I understand programming and design and order of operations in software. There are bugs that pop up in game play that are clear order of operation snafus (scoring play bugs come to mind). I see the same day star discrepancy "bug" as not a bug at all, but a reflection of the order of operations being absolutely correct for the purpose of giving accurate relative strength of players to the user when it is the user's turn to interact with the game. Last edited by VanillaGorilla; 07-21-2013 at 12:46 AM. |
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07-21-2013, 12:51 AM | #33 |
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Another example...In this case, the profile page should (to me) read 2.5 overall, 2.5 potential. (as my scout says the ratings are as of 3/30/13) Why does it instead read 1.5 overall and 3.5 potential? Should this profile page rating not change until the next report is filed by my scout?
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07-21-2013, 01:44 AM | #34 | |
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As to intimate knowledge of the game's processes, I'm afraid I don't quite measure up to the skill set of the others you mentioned. What I know best is very often what I don't know and, for what it's worth, have spent a fair amount of time over the years soliciting the powers that be for definition and exposition of what I've considered ambiguous or misunderstood. The irony in that is I probably qualify as both. You, and many others possess a great deal more experience with baseball and logic, I'd admit. Much of my focus and efforts have traditionally been centered on perceptions of shortcomings, interpretations of how the game works in practice with users, and attempting to contribute to its integrity by always revisiting literally any area that offers the meager appearance of being broken in any way, actuality aside, perceptions matter. And so, as a result, we find ourselves in this discussion due, in part, to just such an appearance, however small the objecting audience. Again, thanks for the gracious response. It's the kind of contribution that builds better community and furthers understanding.
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07-21-2013, 02:01 AM | #35 | ||
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Great posts from both VanillaGorilla and endgame! You guys are getting me interested in this discussion in spite of my initial complete lack of caring at all!
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But there has been talk of removing the stat ratings at some points in this thread. Just wanted to add my voice as being against that idea. Dunno. I've assumed so since Markus said it was. But since I don't have access to the coding... Quote:
Looking at the date, end of spring training, makes me think that VanillaGorilla's point is right on, that this is related to the shrinking of the roster pool when players are sent down. Assuming I understand VG correctly and can correctly interpret the evidence as seen, the problem seems to be that the game doesn't recognize what rating to use when the pool changes substantially on the same day that a scout rating was generated. It seems like it takes a day to allow the game to actually recognize when that rating has changed if there are also major changes in the player pool on the same day. So yeah, the profile should probably use the last scouted rating no matter what. Not sure what it would take to get that to actually happen. But that being said, this does look like a really minor glitch that only happens at a very few select times. So I don't quite get all the angst. Which isn't to say that there's no good reason for it or that this isn't important. I just personally don't get it, which doesn't actually matter, does it Last edited by Lukas Berger; 07-21-2013 at 02:16 AM. |
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07-21-2013, 04:17 AM | #36 | ||
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Let's say I have a 1983 Jody Davis as my catcher and he carried a 2.5/2.5 star rating. Playing in the Majors are also Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra, Gary Carter, and Mike Piazza...all in their primes (I love random debut). I am playing with an injury setting of high or very high, and in the matter of a week, Bench, Berra, Piazza, and Carter all suffer CEIs. Jody Davis is now the best catcher in the league, and is now 5 stars, even though his skill ratings have not changed at all. I, as a user, have this information conveyed to me through the star rating. His last scouting report still shows him as 2.5 stars at the time that report was submitted, but his current profile of 5 stars is correct for what his current value is relative to other catchers in the league. If it so happens that Roy Campanella, Carlton Fisk, Pudge, and Bill Dickey were sitting in AAA behind Bench, Berra, Carter, and Piazza, Davis would still be 2.5 stars relative to the league when these four replace the guys that took the CEIs. I don't need to go through every team and see who is on everyone's roster everyday at every position to gauge how good I am at a position. Quote:
ADD: I went back and unretired all of the players from the game used in the Ludwick post and simmed a week. After a weeks worth of signings, Ludwick became a 2.0/2.0 star player. Not all of the retired players signed in that time. That explains why he is not a 1.5. With those players gone he is "an offensive force you can buid a line-up around". With those other players in the pool he is a "below average" hitter. His actual skill ratings never changed. Last edited by VanillaGorilla; 07-21-2013 at 04:50 AM. Reason: edit*, ADD |
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07-21-2013, 04:40 AM | #37 | |
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Thank you for including my thoughts in your submission for official review. If the response is that I am completely full of banana barf on this, let me know. No need to break it to me gently, either. Cheers. Last edited by VanillaGorilla; 07-21-2013 at 11:56 PM. |
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07-21-2013, 10:04 AM | #38 | |
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If not that that little hiccup should probably be fixed. Though maybe not if it takes any real time or effort to do so since I think there's some higher priorities of things to be fixed and improved. I think it's a different issue from the overall value and usage of the start ratings, which is what you're describing (and describing very well at that). The two things are likely tied together, as it's changes to the player pool that causes OOTP to create the non matching ratings, but they're actually separate things. Or am I misunderstanding this issue? Last edited by Lukas Berger; 07-21-2013 at 01:47 PM. |
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07-21-2013, 10:59 AM | #39 |
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You pointed out in my example the date of my screenshot (October 29th), and then assumed it was a day FAs or arbitration happened. If you look at the screen again, it says right up top it was the first day of the offseason. And while your explanation of roster moves happening between the scouting report on the "Scouting Reports" tab and the "live" ratings on the "Profile" tab is certainly a feasible one, I don't think that's what I was seeing in my league. Sure, I only took the screenshot on one day, and maybe some players retired on October 29th that could have caused this discrepancy, but I was checking that player's ratings regularly throughout the year, and it was always the same thing - profile said 4 stars OVR and POT, scouting report said 1 star OVR and POT, even though the individual ratings on each report were identical. I understand the math that we think is being used in star calculations, and that it's completely dependent on the other players in the league being compared to the individual player, but none of that explains why throughout the course of a season this player consistently shows four stars on his profile but one star on his scouting reports. So which is it? How exactly does this player compare to the rest of the league? I can only assume that the two tabs are somehow using different player pools for comparison, but I don't know how to determine why they're different and which player base each tab would be using. Maybe the 4-star profile tab is comparing him against minor leaguers for some reason, but even so, his recent scouting reports at the AAA level were still only 1 or 1.5 stars. Maybe it's not a bug. Maybe it's a league corruption or some combination of settings causing weirdness, which is why not everyone sees it. I'd be happy to submit my league files to Markus but this was an old dynasty league I was playing in OOTP13 and have been playing since OOTP9, and I haven't imported into 14 yet. I also haven't seen the issue in my test 14 league (waiting for the last patch before I start my new dynasty), so I have nothing to submit. But I still think there's something going on here worth looking into. When I import my OOTP13 dynasty into 14, if I'm still seeing a lot of this going on, I'll upload my league files to Markus and try opening a ticket to see if he can provide some kind of explanation. |
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I actually just had another thought... and I was hoping VG could lend his two cents.
If I recall (don't have my 13 league handy right now to check), at some point along the lines I noticed a number of players who were position players but still had ratings as a pitcher. I remember this because I would occasionally filter a screen by pitchers and see some position players scattered in there. I think Markus adjusted the filters so that they wouldn't show up anymore (or something like that), but there were still position players with pitcher ratings. Does anyone think it's possible that perhaps the profile page's star ratings are taking these position player's pitching ratings into account, while the scouting report tab's star ratings are only comparing players with a strict MR role? It might explain why I traditionally saw this issue mostly with middle relievers and not other players. Just a thought... next time I open my OOTP13 league I'll have to investigate this further. |
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