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Originally Posted by Mike1294
I'm talking about developmental influence. I think that it's a pretty big deal since I assume that it means it will influence how my minor league players develop. I mean whats the point in even having a minor league or a draft if your not gonna try to develop players the best you can.
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From the manual....
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The Relationships tab for managers has 2 panes, relationships and development. Relationships describe both the general overall impression the team has of the manager, as well as detailing which players will have good or bad relationships with the manager. Development Influence indicates which players whose development the manager will be particularly effective (high) or ineffective (low) at influencing.
Bench Coaches have the same personality, style, and strategy ratings types as managers. Their training effects on players are slightly different, focusing more on running and fielding than other areas.
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With regard to your draft, managers and bench coaches influence development for all players. So your drafted players are indeed being developed. Some high, some low, some normal or whatever you want to call it.
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Hitting and Pitching Coaches
Coaches are mainly guided by their focus: Hitting coaches may be focused on power, contact, patience, or neutral; pitching coaches focuses are power, finesse, groundball, or neutral. They will emphasize development and improvements based on their tendency – power hitting coaches will tend to help all players' power ratings increase, for example.
The focus also defines players who the coach will work best with - a power hitter will tend to get a better overall improvement from a power focused hitting coach. The Relationships tab indicates which players are classified as belonging to the same style as the coach.
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So again, all players are being developed, it's just a question of focus with the position coaches. You could have all finesse PC and only draft control type pitchers if you want. You could hire only "neutral" PCs to get pitchers that are more rounded. You could do what I do, have each level specialize with a different focus and hope each P being exposed to each type of training leads to a better P. Same for batters and HCs.
Your original question was about not being able to see "development" and "influence" ratings. I've shown you where you can see that info. How does that relate to a PC\BC compared to a manager\BC? I don't know for sure the manual doesn't really say. But.... if it is a manager\BC attribute only it does not mean your players are not being developed. They are, by their manger, BenchC, and PC, or BC by position.
My personal belief is if a guy has a high development attribute, even if only a PC\BC, it still applies towards their focus. If not then they would all have the same default which , doesn't make sense to me. But that is only a guess.