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3fbrown · 03-27-2022, 08:18 PM

Thanks for this thread Lucky, even if things fell apart more than you would have liked. For what it is worth (and I posted about this some time back) I've been doing manual imports for Black & Cuban players for my league, which just finished the 1917 season. I am in some ways less organized than you, or at least less systematic. I keep a semi-updated tally of where the league's talent levels are (say, what are the 0th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 100th percentile values for pitcher movement and so on) for all talent ratings. Then I use Seamheads - and Eric Chalek's MLEs and other information when available - to create players from scratch.

I have not had issues with player development that I can tell, not like you describe. Some players don't live up to their potential, some do. Pitchers tend to overachieve, but I think that's because may show up at age 17/18/19 and have a lot of time to increase velocity and thus increase their potential. The best pitcher in the league right now is Bill Lindsay, and the league pitching leaders are dominated by Black/Cuban pitchers like Joe Williams, Dick Whitworth, Dizzy Dismukes, John Donaldson, Dick Redding, Juan Padron, Lico Mederos, Dick Redding, and Dicta Johnson. It doesn't bother me, but it's an issue that I would need to address if my goal was maximum accuracy. Black hitters have not dominated to the same extent (I feel they are well balanced overall), but the two league MVPs in 1917 were Oscar Charleston and Cristobal Torriente. I am still running OOTP 21 though, maybe that matters.

I can answer one of your points of confusion though. Carlos Moran's defense - it's bad because he is left handed! The AI does not like that! If you make him a right handed thrower it should clear things up, even if it's not the truth.

03-27-2022, 08:18 PM	#103
3fbrown Major Leagues Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 414	Thanks for this thread Lucky, even if things fell apart more than you would have liked. For what it is worth (and I posted about this some time back) I've been doing manual imports for Black & Cuban players for my league, which just finished the 1917 season. I am in some ways less organized than you, or at least less systematic. I keep a semi-updated tally of where the league's talent levels are (say, what are the 0th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 100th percentile values for pitcher movement and so on) for all talent ratings. Then I use Seamheads - and Eric Chalek's MLEs and other information when available - to create players from scratch. I have not had issues with player development that I can tell, not like you describe. Some players don't live up to their potential, some do. Pitchers tend to overachieve, but I think that's because may show up at age 17/18/19 and have a lot of time to increase velocity and thus increase their potential. The best pitcher in the league right now is Bill Lindsay, and the league pitching leaders are dominated by Black/Cuban pitchers like Joe Williams, Dick Whitworth, Dizzy Dismukes, John Donaldson, Dick Redding, Juan Padron, Lico Mederos, Dick Redding, and Dicta Johnson. It doesn't bother me, but it's an issue that I would need to address if my goal was maximum accuracy. Black hitters have not dominated to the same extent (I feel they are well balanced overall), but the two league MVPs in 1917 were Oscar Charleston and Cristobal Torriente. I am still running OOTP 21 though, maybe that matters. I can answer one of your points of confusion though. Carlos Moran's defense - it's bad because he is left handed! The AI does not like that! If you make him a right handed thrower it should clear things up, even if it's not the truth.