Why 20 - 80 rating scale?

Sin44 · 03-25-2020, 08:46 PM

Why is the default 20 - 80 rating scale.

I would think 1 to 100 gives the best accurate range between players?

stealofhome · 03-25-2020, 08:48 PM

20-80 is the commonly used scale in scouting in real life baseball where 50 is an average player and 60, 70, 80 are standard deviations from that mean.

More here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/scouting...couting-scale/

Colorado · 03-27-2020, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sin44

Why is the default 20 - 80 rating scale.

I would think 1 to 100 gives the best accurate range between players?

I'm guessing you're European? I'm from UK and when I asked about this I learned that the figure was a percentile. It's a weird way to rate players but I think the way to look at is 80, for example, would be he's better than 80 of players at that level.

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