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Originally Posted by Rain King
That's never been the way that OOTP has worked. There have always been ratings that can go beyond the main scale.
The "average" player in the league is what sets the scale, not the outliers. So, the players get rated essentially by how much better/worse they are than the average.
Otherwise, when you get a Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds you are going to get the rest of the league pushed downwards to where hardly anyone looks to be above average.
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You make some fair points. I just personally feel like the scouting scale should really technically be 20 to 90 instead of 20 to 80 if that is the case. And those generational talents like Bonds and Ruth should be the only ones with 85 or 90 ratings.
Also, this isn’t exactly the same idea but this kinda reminds me of why I prefer +/-stats (like ERA+ and FIP-) where “average” is 100 and then you can gauge a players ability relative to the average. It’d be awesome if there was a way to reflect this type of scale for ratings (as opposed to just stats) as well.