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Originally Posted by injury log
No, it demonstrably did not "work fine", at least if you compared OOTP to real life baseball, using any number of benchmarks. The success rate of late round picks, the preponderance of recent draftees on top prospect lists - OOTP was way, way off before.
And I think BIGEASY made the most important point in this thread. If you have a draft class full of high potential players, the game needs to kill most of them off later on. So maybe draft day is more fun, but it's a lot less fun watching what happens to your picks as the seasons roll by.
Lastly, with so many variables that influence the appearance of a draft class, I often wonder in threads like this if people are even talking about the same things. Sometimes it's the league setup someone uses, not the OOTP draft model, that is responsible for a weak-looking draft class. So it would be helpful if people mentioned whether they use feeders or an auto-generated draft class, whether scouting is on, whether their scout 'favors tools' or 'favors ability', what scouting accuracy is used, if the league is using the MLB roster set or is purely fictional, and how many years the league has been running. The star rating is based on a comparison with the existing players in your league, so if the ratings of your established big leaguers are inflated for some reason, that will affect the appearance of your draft class as well.
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You can click on the link in my signature and read the 80+ pages of posts about the league using the old method. Let me know in a week or two what you think. I played it, so I already know. It worked fine in terms of providing competitive balance and realistic results. In fact, you can find 20 years of league totals on page 1. They don't look out of whack to me.
The old method wasn't perfect either. I admit that I was frustrated from time to time when too many prospects flamed out. But no more frustrated than I am now looking at a draft class containing 90% 0-WAR players.
P.S. To the OP... see what I mean? I swear I will get out of this thread before page 18. Really I will.
