Please fix the player development and projection system.  The fact that experienced owners can fairly accurately determine a player's projections without spending a dime on advanced scouting is a problem.  In fact, people are making a mockery of the system by having 0 advanced scouting. 

There have been several ideas on how to fix this one:

1) Have several different developmental schedules (early bloomers, late bloomers, and everywhere in between)

2) Have fuzzy ratings.  No GM/Owner in MLB knows that any player has 96 contact.  Instead of exact numbers, use letters grades A+ to F- for each rating.

3) Have both current and projected ratings modfied by advanced scouting.  Again, there is no way to objectively measure how good a player's skills are at any given moment in time.  Your scouting budget should affect current ratings, but perhaps, not as much as it affects projected ratings.

4) Involve more randomness in the development of players.  This would solve a lot of problems.  It would cause more #1 overal picks to be busts and cause more late round picks to be valuable. 

All four together would be a great addition to the game.  It would put greater emphasis on evaluating players based on their statistics along with their ratings.

I would love to see stats play a more important role, but that's just not what this game is.  Changing it to a grade level rating system would be a fundamental change in the entire structure of the game and WIS will never do this.  There are other baseball sim games that do this but that's not what this game is about I'm afraid.  Other problem is the way minors are run.  Minor league stats have absolutely NO bearing on ML success in this game, due to numerous reasons, making using stats only as an evaluation tool impossible.

If we can all do it, what's the point of having advanced scouting in the first place?  To disadvantage rookies?  That seems like a good way to make sure that rookies quit.  Why punish them more than they are already?

Also, Travs, its not a risky strategy when there is no risk.  The truly *risky* strategy would be to do it when there is a clear disadvantage.  As it stands now there is no disadvantage or, at least, its minimal.

 

Posted by mitchrapp on 6/18/2010 6:16:00 PM (view original):
I would HATE letter grades.

But if we ALL can figure future ratings, what's the problem? Or is this because rooks can't? Rooks should have a disadvantage or two, we all start out as rooks.

Posted by bjb2378 on 6/18/2010 8:22:00 PM (view original):

If we can all do it, what's the point of having advanced scouting in the first place?  To disadvantage rookies?  That seems like a good way to make sure that rookies quit.  Why punish them more than they are already?

Also, Travs, its not a risky strategy when there is no risk.  The truly *risky* strategy would be to do it when there is a clear disadvantage.  As it stands now there is no disadvantage or, at least, its minimal.