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rburgh · 03-13-2020, 06:13 AM

If the LIVE cards were given OVR ratings on the same scale as the historicals, there would be very few diamond level LIVE cards. That might scare away some users, who would conclude that baseball was no longer relevant.

But I believe that their batter ratings are simply based on standard deviation calculations for park adjusted HR rates, contact rates, XBH rates, walk rates, and K rates. And since baseball today has a much larger world population to draw from, there are a lot of people with very high-end skills, which kills off the upper tail of the normal distribution curve.

Babe Ruth hitting twice as many homers as any other TEAM was several SD's above the norm. Pete Alonso's 53 HR's doesn't score as well on that scale, since 9 other players last year hit more than 40. But he was still the best power hitter in baseball last year and deserves his 100 OVR POW rating. Compared to guys who had smaller populations, and were compared against fewer players, though, his power rating on an SD basis would probably be 85 or so. That would not sit well with Met fans or the younger demographic here.

03-13-2020, 06:13 AM	#2
rburgh All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 1,060	And also If the LIVE cards were given OVR ratings on the same scale as the historicals, there would be very few diamond level LIVE cards. That might scare away some users, who would conclude that baseball was no longer relevant. But I believe that their batter ratings are simply based on standard deviation calculations for park adjusted HR rates, contact rates, XBH rates, walk rates, and K rates. And since baseball today has a much larger world population to draw from, there are a lot of people with very high-end skills, which kills off the upper tail of the normal distribution curve. Babe Ruth hitting twice as many homers as any other TEAM was several SD's above the norm. Pete Alonso's 53 HR's doesn't score as well on that scale, since 9 other players last year hit more than 40. But he was still the best power hitter in baseball last year and deserves his 100 OVR POW rating. Compared to guys who had smaller populations, and were compared against fewer players, though, his power rating on an SD basis would probably be 85 or so. That would not sit well with Met fans or the younger demographic here.