[hfield007]

For fictional just looking at my 25 man roster: On a 1-10 scale

Pitchers - 4 pitchers exact same ratings, 5 with 1 attribute having a 1 point diff, 1 pitcher with 1 attribute having a 2 point diff

Batters - 11 batters with the exact same 1-10 ratings, 4 batters with only 1 skill that has a 1 point difference.

Even if platooning works out statistically, if you are playing out games and using ratings as a guide almost nobody has any kind of real platoon advantage. they are virtually identical.


FURTHER:
Looking up the hard ratings in editor for players who have a 1-10 difference in 1 attribute:
Batters - power was +3 and put him over the edge to the next 1-10 point
gap was +7 and put him over the edge to the next 1-10 point
avoid k's was +10 and put him over the edge to the next 1-10 point
gap was +1 and put him over the edge to the next 1-10 point

Pitchers -
stuff was +33 and gave 2 extra points on 1-10 scale
movement was +24 and gave 1 point on 1-10 scale
stuff was +22 and gave 1 point on 1-10 scale
movement was _+11 and gave 1 point on 1-10 scale
movement was +5 and gave 1 point on 1-10 scale
movement was +7 and gave 1 point on 1-10 scale

Small sample size it is jsut my one team in fictional. But I think it is clear on both sides of the ball platoon that the ratings are not very good for platoon splits. The small sample actually makes it seem like the issue is worse in batters than pitchers with virtually almost no difference in any of the ratings.

I do understand that a 1-10 scale will shrink the amount of differences due to their only being 10 numbers to represent the ability. But the hard ratings themselves do not show large differences in ability as we see in real life baseball, and specifically the game lacks any major differences between left and right ratings that some players are quite known for being abysmal vs one side.