Real Life Career Minor Leaguers Making MLB In OOTP

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by David Watts

I do have a question for those that say they love seeing career minor leaguers become stars. Would you be as open to say a Tom Veryzer getting a huge power bump and going on to hit 600 home runs? Of course, that would never happen because the reality of recalc would pull the pretty haired Veryzer back to reality very quickly.

With recalc and dev, low draft picks who turned into stars real life are, in a save, going to be stars as they were or near stars or superstars. Until OOTP starts taking out some of those players with career ending injuries at a young age, there isn't a reason to turn career minor leaguers into stars or super stars.

[ayaghmour2]

Originally Posted by David Watts

I do have a question for those that say they love seeing career minor leaguers become stars. Would you be as open to say a Tom Veryzer getting a huge power bump and going on to hit 600 home runs? Of course, that would never happen because the reality of recalc would pull the pretty haired Veryzer back to reality very quickly.

Yeah, would be a fun alternate history. If I'm not playing with recalc on, something like this is a nice flavor. Works the opposite too. A Barry Bonds or Mickey Mantle turning into a slap hitter would add some enjoyment too

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by ayaghmour2

Yeah, would be a fun alternate history. If I'm not playing with recalc on, something like this is a nice flavor. Works the opposite too. A Barry Bonds or Mickey Mantle turning into a slap hitter would add some enjoyment too

I like whatifs, but even with recalc off, I can't stomach that much of a jump from reality.

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by David Watts

I like whatifs, but even with recalc off, I can't stomach that much of a jump from reality.

Yes. It's not a plausible alternative reality.

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Enjoy the time - now I gotta look up this Dennis Hebner fella!

Got to see the Pirates beat the Orioles 15-5. A few days later the Orioles no hit the Pirates. Also saw a game against the Phillies where the Pirates were behind 2-0 bottom of the ninth, walk, double that did not score the run, SF, SF, solo HR.

The Diana Ross concert was great too!

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by Scottiedog43

Brad K
Keep posting about him. I always find these things interesting.

However, in same breath, I’ve seldom did retro-leagues.

Boyett was a FA after 1973. He signed with the Braves 6 x $750k with the last year a player option at age 32. He's five stars June 1974,

He's tied for the second highest paid player with Don Sutton. Joe Morgan is first at $780k

[WhiskyTango]

Originally Posted by Brad K

That's suggesting the range for randomness should be zero to infinity. Would it be reasonable for Boyett to randomize his development in a range from 0 stars to 3 stars?

Which does TCR represent - likelihood of change (dice roll) or degree of change should change occur? Or both??

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by WhiskyTango

Which does TCR represent - likelihood of change (dice roll) or degree of change should change occur? Or both??

I asked that question once and believe there was no clear answer given.

[Brad K]

My league is in 1974. I am using LTMs from running auto-calc on a 1974 replay league. That gives me the correct environment for 1974. (Background in THIS THREAD and ANOTHER THREAD) With better pitching talent scoring is down.

Some people might say adjust the LTMs but the pitching talent in this league is better than historic. Output is right for the talent.

However the talent is not realistic because so many career minor league pitchers are rated higher than historic pitchers. I can see 10% but how could so many real life scouts be wrong that we're over 30%? So instead I'm going to cut down the number of career minor league pitchers in MLB.

I'm considering allowing a total of two per team with a max of one SP. Another considering is to put a limit based on the ratings, perhaps 6 stars of career minor league pitchers per team. But maybe 6.5 or 7. Don't know.

I'm in July so I have some time to obtain and consider suggestions.

[eauhomme]

Looking at Boyett's real minor league stats, he actually looked great at 18, extremely high K rate, low hit and homer rate, walk rate high but not alarmingly so. The kind of numbers that could indicate a future ace starter.

His career was over the next year after some unimpressive numbers, and it looks like he probably threw out his arm--lots of hits combined with few strikeouts, and no other chances given. But had he not been hurt, his age-18 year could have been a foreshadow of a very solid career, and OOTP may have played that out.

[Brad K]

Nice analysis of Boyette. OOTP may intend something like that on a limited basis. But on pitchers they missed the "limited basis" part. Position players are reasonably acceptable.