Posted by hockey1984 on 2/11/2016 12:50:00 PM (view original):
Posted by MikeT23 on 2/10/2016 5:44:00 PM (view original):
In addition, tzent said playoff games help with development. Soooooooooo, if 162 is not better than 135, why should playoff games matter? Between ST and reg season, you should be able to get 135 games in.
What a clusterfuck of answers.
Everyone keeps talking about playoff games helping with development but I have never seen my guys get a rating bump while in the playoffs, regardless of level. Am I missing something?
(I don't have any current examples to show here because none of my 4 teams are at the end of a season but Seattle and Toronto just ended and my minors always go deep in the playoffs so I can vouch for this)
Let's say you have a guy in Low-A and you miss the playoffs. At the end of the season he has 1 thing labelled spring training and 4 labelled regular season. If you promote him to High-A at this point you get the "5th bump" labelled Promotion.
Let's say your high-A team is in the playoffs and goes all the way to the finals, that's like 20-25 games or whatever, if you Promote again after all the minor league levels are finished, if the guy played enough games (I don't know what the exact trigger is) it gives you a "6th bump" which is also labelled Promotion. In my experience the 6th bump is not as good as the others, but it's still something. For pitchers maybe it's like an extra +1 control and an extra +1 vStrongside, maybe an extra +1 P3-P4.
The key question for me that I wonder is when you don't promote and get those 5th and 6th bumps, whether those miscellaneous +1s carry over and get added onto spring training, or whether those "remainders" get erased completely
Edit: reading upwards^^, Mike and dakar both wonder this same question