Are there certain traits you can look for potential candidates to narrow down to a short list? My personal observation is for drafted players, typically double digit draft round (occasionally 6-9), international players typically signed for $100K or less. Am I far off? DITR coming up in about a week in my league and I want to see how close I can come to predicting by DITR guy(s).

A good starting point is below, but there are many DITR threads that go deeper than this.

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

I would not concentrate on where in the draft they go or how much money they get in IFA. I've seen folks pay 5 million in IFA just for a good DITR candidate. I've seen folks get a great DITR candidate with only $50,000. I've seen stellar DITRs in the late rounds. I've seen great DITRs go in round 1 or 2.

Curious about the third point "the more eligible players, the higher chance you get more than one" -- in 100+ seasons I've not seen any correlation like that. It seems very random season to season how many you get.

Posted by mattyjim on 4/21/2022 11:00:00 AM (view original):
Curious about the third point "the more eligible players, the higher chance you get more than one" -- in 100+ seasons I've not seen any correlation like that. It seems very random season to season how many you get.

I have a suspicion, backed up by studying many ditr classes, that it's some sort of slotting system. If you have many players that are eligible for ditr, and those players range between college, high school, and IFA and also between 1st year to 7th year players, you'll have a higher probability of more than one player slotting into the system. Whereas, if you only have high school players, or only have college players or only IFA and tryout camp players, you'll have less players that fit in the slots. What I've seen is that teams that consistently have many different types of players in many different years of service tend to get two or three ditr. On the other hand, players that stick to one or two types of prospects in their first, second or third year of service, usually only get one ditr and rarely they might get two DITR, but never three.

Yeah, I can confirm the eligible players point. I used to try and curate my teams so that only a handful of players that I really wanted to get the bump were DITR eligible. Most seasons I wouldn't get any DITR's, once in a while I'd get one. Compare to my teams that are chuck full of garbage DITR candidates and I'll get 2 or 3 all the time.

can someone get a Ditr if they are on the Ml roster ? I have a guy i might promote since i think he will be my best catcher next year anyways , but i believe he still could get a Ditr hes only 22 , 53 overall current, 58 potential

Not sure if a player can get DITR when on the 25 man roster, but I don't see why not.

I know for a fact you can get DITR on the 40 man roster fwiw