The search function sucks so bad here, i spent 30 minutes trying to find old posts about what criteria to use when trying to edit rosters to make the best potential DITR candidates and this is all I found. Does anybody know/remember the criteria?

under age 25
under 60 overall rating
the more ditr eligible players on your roster, the higher chance you get more than one ditr
the less pro service time, the better chance the player has to develop into an mlb player
the higer the makeup rating, the larger the bump he'll get from DITR

is there any criteria around potential ratings or anything else to consider?

Only other things I can add are that trying to cheat the system by deactivating all your minor leaguers that either a) aren't ditr eligible, or b) are so bad you don't want them getting it, right before the ditr bump doesn't seem to work. I seemed to get fewer ditr's when I used that strategy. The system must pick the guys at least a few cycles before the AS break.

That and also the fact that I stopped trying to curate a ditr minors system because it was just too much work. Especially when you try to maximize low DUR/STA catchers and relievers. Those are the best targets but they also leave your teams with so little depth unless you spend a bunch of time activating/deactivating to keep your guys fresh.

yeah, it can be a lot of unrewarding work to try to game it. Just to add: from what I have read the guess for the overall rating ceiling is closer to 54, 55, maybe 56...

I've been down this rabbit hole for a few months now and it's gotten me nowhere except some really bad LoA and RL teams.

Posted by cal_bears on 5/24/2023 4:54:00 PM (view original):
yeah, it can be a lot of unrewarding work to try to game it. Just to add: from what I have read the guess for the overall rating ceiling is closer to 54, 55, maybe 56...

Likely 55.

Posted by gogogadget on 5/24/2023 9:30:00 AM (view original):
The search function sucks so bad here, i spent 30 minutes trying to find old posts about what criteria to use when trying to edit rosters to make the best potential DITR candidates and this is all I found. Does anybody know/remember the criteria?

under age 25
under 60 overall rating
the more ditr eligible players on your roster, the higher chance you get more than one ditr
the less pro service time, the better chance the player has to develop into an mlb player
the higer the makeup rating, the larger the bump he'll get from DITR

is there any criteria around potential ratings or anything else to consider?

All accurate

Posted by brianplath on 5/24/2023 4:07:00 PM (view original):
Only other things I can add are that trying to cheat the system by deactivating all your minor leaguers that either a) aren't ditr eligible, or b) are so bad you don't want them getting it, right before the ditr bump doesn't seem to work. I seemed to get fewer ditr's when I used that strategy. The system must pick the guys at least a few cycles before the AS break.

That and also the fact that I stopped trying to curate a ditr minors system because it was just too much work. Especially when you try to maximize low DUR/STA catchers and relievers. Those are the best targets but they also leave your teams with so little depth unless you spend a bunch of time activating/deactivating to keep your guys fresh.

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I haven't had that kind of success, but I set up my draft lists with an eye towards possible successful DitRs, and every few seasons I get a DitR for someone I drafted for that purpose, and maybe half of those become significant major leaguers (no stars like tlowster, though).

Placido Alvarez was my second round pick in an abysmal draft. Swingman with an ERA about half a run better than park adjusted league average through 420 career innings.
Reid Jenkins, perfectly fungible second catcher from the 5th round.
Pablo Odor, 8th rounder with an SLG of .500 in his first 750 ML ABs.

I've had other, somewhat better guys, but these are the only intentionally developed DitR's on my 4 current ML rosters.

Posted by dedelman on 5/26/2023 1:23:00 PM (view original):
I haven't had that kind of success, but I set up my draft lists with an eye towards possible successful DitRs, and every few seasons I get a DitR for someone I drafted for that purpose, and maybe half of those become significant major leaguers (no stars like tlowster, though).

Placido Alvarez was my second round pick in an abysmal draft. Swingman with an ERA about half a run better than park adjusted league average through 420 career innings.
Reid Jenkins, perfectly fungible second catcher from the 5th round.
Pablo Odor, 8th rounder with an SLG of .500 in his first 750 ML ABs.

I've had other, somewhat better guys, but these are the only intentionally developed DitR's on my 4 current ML rosters.

Odor is really nice.

Damn tlow, I'm tempted to actively developing ditrs again after seeing your success. I draft obvious ditrs but that's were my effort stops haha.

Dude, there's no way I have a .585 record without Ditr. I have teams where 10+ players are Ditr.

Ok...stupid question, but I'm new to HBD... what is DitRs??

and what settings do you use that produce 30+ wins with ZERO starts lol... I understand if you don't want to say... Just trying to learn

Diamonds in the Rough, you'll see the history of them on your home page. Career minor leaguers can become studs. That setting is probably the second tandem pitcher in a rotation. I've had average minor leaguers get over 20 wins that were a tandem B, not 30 yet...