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Originally Posted by lukasberger
I do agree with all this.
I'm not saying the stats are truly meaningless. HS stats, yeah. They're worthless.
College stats have value. Generally the best prospects do have great stats in college. But there are a TON of exceptions and a lot of non-prospects who have great college stats as well.
So it shouldn't be possible to draft well just based on stats in OOTP. There needs to be plenty of exceptions to the general 'great prospect, great stats' rule of thumb, enough to get you in real trouble if all you're looking at is stats. And I do think the game does ok with this now.
That's all I'm saying.
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Oh I know this does not translate to how a real life scout operates. I'm not trying to win with the actual Marlins, I'm trying to win with the OOTP Marlins. I've played with feeder leagues and without and I'm telling you with feeder leagues I can draft a good crop of players with no help from my scouts just by analyzing the feeder stats. Over four 20 round drafts I'll average 10-15 major league quality players. Take away the feeders and just use the generated stats of draft pool players and I'd be lucky to get 2-4 major leaguers in the same number of drafts.
What I'd love to see would be enough stat history, rankings, and awards won by pool players for their career prior to the draft. Not just a single line from a single season (if that is what we are getting). Basically I want the outcome of having feeders without having feeders.
Not much!
