Posted by wylie715 on 5/4/2016 6:51:00 PM (view original):
telling a GM who to promote will not work. I know I have some players in the minors with better OVR than some of the players in the majors, but they are there for a reason. It could be I don't think they are read for the majors yet. It could be the guy in front of them is still performing well, despite his worse OVR. I've also had guys with better OVR perform like crap in the majors after tearing it up in the minors. OVR really doesn't mean much.
I think most people agree OVR needs an overhaul.
I don't think we should be required to have our top 25 OVR on our ML team. No matter how OVR is done, that would be bad idea.
If, for example, the comparison was limited to positions where the player would be above average on all D ratings, if you have 5 (not 1 or 2) in your MinL who could play above average D at a position in the ML, some of them almost certainly are better than what you've got in the ML.
There would be rare situations where great GMs would have to promote someone before they wanted to. That would take having 6 better OVR (who would be good fielders) in our minors. I don't see that happening very often. Even less if OVR was fixed to better reflect reality.
IMO, that's a reasonable trade off to reduce tanking. That's a problem in too many worlds.