Great post! I think you nailed it.
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Originally Posted by OmahaReynolds
Yes, out-of-the-box OOTP with a 1-20 rating scale and pretty accurate scouting is going to be much easier than stats only.
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Identifying the best players does not guarantee that you will have them. Once identified, the best players can still be very difficult to obtain with a small market budget, hard trade settings with house rules, and no draft pick trading. On the other hand, a stats-only player can dominate easily by exploiting the AI's lack of trading skills and poor roster management decisions.
There are far too many variables to claim that the exclusion or inclusion of one feature makes the game "easy mode". The game is easy with or without ratings for experienced players unless they exercise some self-restraint.