Manager influence on player development?

Fuji · 09-17-2018, 08:21 PM

Hi all. Got a question for ya.

So, I'm going through the list of available managers to fill a minor league vacancy. It's for A ball - the only thing I care about is having the best positive influence on my prospects' development. The thing is, I am confounded by the interface.

Under the 'Player Development Influence' section of 'Relationships' tab, there's a blurb that says, "Based on interviews, X is expected to have the following development influence with the Z players: Excellent". There's two columns immediately below this, saying 'Higher Influence' and 'Lower Influence'. For this particular candidate, there are none of my players listed in either sub-section.

By comparison, a second candidate's comparable blurb says, "Based on interviews, Y is expected to have the following development influence with the Z players: Average". However, there's about 20 players split between the 'Higher Influence' and 'Lower Influence' columns.

So my question is: given just these two candidates, whom should I hire, X or Y? Is it more important to have an overall higher rating (e.g. 'Excellent') or instead to have a lot of individual players named under the 'Higher/Lower Influence' columns? I've seen nothing in the manual to indicate how much weight I should give to either category.

Orcin · 09-17-2018, 08:31 PM

Excellent for everybody sounds better than “above average for some and below average for others” to me.

ThatSeventiesGuy · 09-17-2018, 08:33 PM

In my experience, the managers for your minor league clubs don't matter much, as long as you don't hire a total loser. It's the hitting and pitching coaches that have the real impact on development and winning for the young 'uns.

Fuji · 09-18-2018, 06:45 AM

Hmmm.... so it seems that nobody else really knows, either - but nobody's really worried about it.

Okey dokey, I guess I'll grab X for my Charlotte Stone Crabs then, as we in Tampa Bay look to avenge a painful ALDS loss in '18 to the hated Yankees. Revenge!

Sharkn20 · 09-18-2018, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Fuji

Hmmm.... so it seems that nobody else really knows, either - but nobody's really worried about it.

Okey dokey, I guess I'll grab X for my Charlotte Stone Crabs then, as we in Tampa Bay look to avenge a painful ALDS loss in '18 to the hated Yankees. Revenge!

Maybe you want to feeddback to the community how your young players are developing with that manager...?

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NoOne · 09-18-2018, 02:17 PM

there's no feedback on the ratings anymore, so i have doubts about how important they are.

a useful tdibit: the verbage you read in profile doesn't necessarily indicate much. for example these two coaches would likely display the same message about being good for "kids" the top # is handle rookies, and then the other 2 don't matter for this example except the values.

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both will say handles kids well in profile or prefers kids, but only one of them actually has a high rating. so it tells you virtually nothing in the profile... except which rating is potentially higher than the others beyond a certain threshold, which may be sub-100 or post-100 on the scale it simply is impossible to know.

insert 'prefers power pitching/batting' too.. .could be 2 low values and therefore sucks at both regardless of what profile says.

09-17-2018, 08:21 PM	#1
Fuji Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 16	Manager influence on player development? Hi all. Got a question for ya. So, I'm going through the list of available managers to fill a minor league vacancy. It's for A ball - the only thing I care about is having the best positive influence on my prospects' development. The thing is, I am confounded by the interface. Under the 'Player Development Influence' section of 'Relationships' tab, there's a blurb that says, "Based on interviews, X is expected to have the following development influence with the Z players: Excellent". There's two columns immediately below this, saying 'Higher Influence' and 'Lower Influence'. For this particular candidate, there are none of my players listed in either sub-section. By comparison, a second candidate's comparable blurb says, "Based on interviews, Y is expected to have the following development influence with the Z players: Average". However, there's about 20 players split between the 'Higher Influence' and 'Lower Influence' columns. So my question is: given just these two candidates, whom should I hire, X or Y? Is it more important to have an overall higher rating (e.g. 'Excellent') or instead to have a lot of individual players named under the 'Higher/Lower Influence' columns? I've seen nothing in the manual to indicate how much weight I should give to either category.

09-17-2018, 08:33 PM	#3
ThatSeventiesGuy Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Midland, MI Posts: 3,424	In my experience, the managers for your minor league clubs don't matter much, as long as you don't hire a total loser. It's the hitting and pitching coaches that have the real impact on development and winning for the young 'uns. __________________ https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...00&postcount=1

09-17-2018, 08:31 PM	#2
Orcin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 9,849	Excellent for everybody sounds better than “above average for some and below average for others” to me.

09-18-2018, 06:45 AM	#4
Fuji Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 16	Hmmm.... so it seems that nobody else really knows, either - but nobody's really worried about it. Okey dokey, I guess I'll grab X for my Charlotte Stone Crabs then, as we in Tampa Bay look to avenge a painful ALDS loss in '18 to the hated Yankees. Revenge!

09-18-2018, 02:17 PM	#6
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 1/2 (4)	there's no feedback on the ratings anymore, so i have doubts about how important they are. a useful tdibit: the verbage you read in profile doesn't necessarily indicate much. for example these two coaches would likely display the same message about being good for "kids" the top # is handle rookies, and then the other 2 don't matter for this example except the values. 50 25 25 150 50 50 both will say handles kids well in profile or prefers kids, but only one of them actually has a high rating. so it tells you virtually nothing in the profile... except which rating is potentially higher than the others beyond a certain threshold, which may be sub-100 or post-100 on the scale it simply is impossible to know. insert 'prefers power pitching/batting' too.. .could be 2 low values and therefore sucks at both regardless of what profile says.