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Old 06-24-2025, 02:10 PM   #120
RonCo
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Originally Posted by kidd_05_u2 View Post
Wouldn't career paths like Campbell or Jackson Holliday be modeled better as coming out of the draft with current ratings that are good enough to play at AAA? Good enough to tear through the minors and not good enough to easily succeed in the MLB, while avoiding this bad situation where potential affects stats.

The challenge would be to get the AI to still put some of these players through the low minors, though nowadays teams are getting more and more aggressive with early promotions.
Yes. This is exactly how those players should be modeled. Some players blaze through the minors because someone made a "mistake" and put them into an environment where their current skills were considerably greater than the guys around them. They only stabilize once they are put into an environment where they are at the right level--which could even be the majors.

The idea of using potential ratings to influence current results is a bad model.
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