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Originally Posted by OutS|der
And this couldn't be done without boosting stats? Players with high potential couldn't just develop faster?
To help the AI, you had to make MILB stats meaningless to real players?
I get eager and promote my two way star to AAA and lock him in as the AI doesn't want to play him both ways, his stats get boosted to make him decent but since he's playing above his level he never develops and I'll never know why, was it TCR, did he just turn out to be a bust or did I over promote him and the game lied to me with his stats?
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I mean, this is just real baseball, no? Minor league stats are not infallibly predictive of future MLB performance in reality, so why should they be in the game?
Teams wouldn't spend millions of dollars a year on scouting departments if all they had to do was look at minor league stats to know how good a player really is.
They thought they could do this back in the early Moneyball days, but quickly found out it does not really work, at least not in isolation.
Stats are one data point, and a useful one for sure, but they are fallible and they do 'lie' when taken without any other context.
Look at a guy like Kristian Campbell as a quick example. Everything about his MiLB stats and even ST stats said he was MLB ready. Turns out, not so much.
Anyway, regardless of the arguments for and against, it's not like we want to actively tick folks off here, and there are clearly some pretty valid arguments why a lot of folks dislike this change.
I guess the ultimate solution here is likely going to be something along the lines of making this yet another setting, where folks who want to have potential influence minor league stats can turn that on, and those who hate the idea can turn it off.
We'll probably also slightly decrease the strength of the adjustments even if it's turned on.
I don't want to promise that's what we'll do, that's more for Matt to decide, but things certainly seems to be heading in that direction.