Prospect Lists include too many Rookie Leaguers

khucke · 03-28-2016, 05:26 AM

General problem in OOTP 17: The teams' prospects lists are loaded with rookie league players, which is quite unrealistic. In real life top prospects have already shown their qualities in at least A+ or higher leagues.
Cause of the problem seems to be the inflated potential ratings of the draft pool and rookie league players. This is a change from previous ootp editions and is intended to simulate 'the hype' surrounding drafted players.
An unintended consequence is the overestimation of these players on the various prospect lists.Therefore a tweak is neccessary to put less weight on potential ratings and more on level of minors and/or stats achieved at the higher minors.

Markus Heinsohn · 03-30-2016, 09:41 AM

I have tweaked this for the upcoming patch.

Habsfan18 · 03-31-2016, 07:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

I have tweaked this for the upcoming patch.

I could be an exception, but I haven't noticed this being a problem at all. My league top prospects lists yearly consist of many AAA, AA, and A players. Only a small majority are Rookie leaguers.

Just my experiences though.

khucke · 04-01-2016, 08:47 AM

It's especially prelevant among pitching prospects : Of the top 20 OOTP pitching prospects 13 are from rookie leagues, 1 from AAA, 2 from AA, 2 from A, and 2 from Short A.

03-28-2016, 05:26 AM	#1
khucke All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Düsseldorf, Germany Posts: 650	Prospect Lists include too many Rookie Leaguers General problem in OOTP 17: The teams' prospects lists are loaded with rookie league players, which is quite unrealistic. In real life top prospects have already shown their qualities in at least A+ or higher leagues. Cause of the problem seems to be the inflated potential ratings of the draft pool and rookie league players. This is a change from previous ootp editions and is intended to simulate 'the hype' surrounding drafted players. An unintended consequence is the overestimation of these players on the various prospect lists.Therefore a tweak is neccessary to put less weight on potential ratings and more on level of minors and/or stats achieved at the higher minors.

03-30-2016, 09:41 AM	#2
Markus Heinsohn Developer OOTP Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 24,805	I have tweaked this for the upcoming patch. __________________ Buy Out of the Park Baseball 25 now! Download OOTP Go 25 for iOS Download OOTP Go 25 for Android

04-01-2016, 08:47 AM	#4
khucke All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Düsseldorf, Germany Posts: 650	It's especially prelevant among pitching prospects : Of the top 20 OOTP pitching prospects 13 are from rookie leagues, 1 from AAA, 2 from AA, 2 from A, and 2 from Short A.