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Originally Posted by Mr. Marlin
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.
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Sure, again fair enough and I like your suggestions a lot!
But take a look at real MLB team's typical past drafts. I've actually posted some stuff on this before, but 1-2 guys per 40-50 round draft draft is far closer to the average amount of solid MLB caliber players that real MLB teams get than 4-5 per 20 rounds.
There's been talk of the Cardinals 2009 draft being one of the single greatest drafts ever. SI wrote a long article on it a year or so ago. They got two stars and three solid regulars from that draft.
However, even including that draft, going two years forward and two years back, for five total drafts, and the full total becomes two stars and five solid regulars, plus 10-15 replacement players. That from a five draft period that includes of the better drafts in the history of MLB!
I haven't done a full analysis so could be wrong, but from the analysis I have done it appears that the single most likely number of future MLB regulars for a team to expect to get out of any given draft is 0!