Posted by MikeT23 on 2/23/2017 8:20:00 AM (view original):
People want "realism" until they don't want it. Injuries in HBD are FAR less frequent than in MLB. There are MLB teams with horrible farm systems. Think of them as the 14m scouting teams when the top farm systems are using 20m.
The difference between 14m and 20m is that FA secondbaseman who is only slightly better than that 3rd year pro in AAA that you're "holding back for full development."
It goes both ways though. I agree 100% that we should have way more injuries in HBD. No one gets a career ending injury to a 25 year old player or worse gets an email that says 'your player was charged with a DUI, Steroid use, was killed in a nightclub' so we really shouldn't complain. Same as with the draft, the old non-fuzzy ratings were ridiculous and weren't very realistic when 15 out of the first 20 picks were pretty much ML all-star potential players.
But, the other side of that coin is that in the MLB a player probably won't lose control of their fastball if they get sent down to AAA or have more difficulty stealing bases. Also, the speed at which position players lose power in their mid - late 30's seems to be consistent. I always wonder what David Ortiz's ratings line must have looked like if he were in the sim to put up numbers like he did in 2016. I still think we are winning out on this deal, but there is still stuff that goes both ways.