Please post issues in the real roster sets here!

[Doc_Brown]

Sometime after OD. I'm not sure of the exact date, but I think the plan is to get them out as quickly as possible when the OD rosters are known.

[Erik W.]

Someone added an extra zero to Logan Ondrusek (Tokyo Yakult Swallows). His salary in the game is $12M instead of $1.2M. Does nasty things to the club's finances.

The game also has him on a two year contract signed prior to 2014 season, but in reality it's a one year deal signed before this season. But since that has no impact on game play, that part isn't a big deal.

[Yick]

Kyle Drabek just got claimed off of waiver by the White Sox.

[TBird]

On the free agent list Ernesto Molinet, Cuban first baseman, is listed as a second baseman but has ratings only for first. I understand he played some second base and outfield early on, but has played primarily first base the past 4 years or so.

[Tom the Fish]

Originally Posted by Erik W.

Someone added an extra zero to Logan Ondrusek (Tokyo Yakult Swallows). His salary in the game is $12M instead of $1.2M. Does nasty things to the club's finances.

The game also has him on a two year contract signed prior to 2014 season, but in reality it's a one year deal signed before this season. But since that has no impact on game play, that part isn't a big deal.

Oh that explains a lot.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Erik W.

Someone added an extra zero to Logan Ondrusek (Tokyo Yakult Swallows). His salary in the game is $12M instead of $1.2M. Does nasty things to the club's finances.

The game also has him on a two year contract signed prior to 2014 season, but in reality it's a one year deal signed before this season. But since that has no impact on game play, that part isn't a big deal.

Originally Posted by Tom the Fish

Oh that explains a lot.

My bad.

Fixed now.

[frangipard]

Okay, so maybe I'm completely wrong here, but the ratings for some of the international leagues look pretty completely nerfed. Basically, the pitchers are fine, but the batters in the Japanese and Korean leagues (and maybe some others) are wildly overrated.

Let me quantify this. There are 240 major-league starters (8*30, we'll ignore the DH), and 360 major-league position-player jobs. When you sort all MLB players by current OVR (scouting off, 20-80 scale, all compared to MLB), there are 242 players rated 44 or higher, and 370 rated 37 or higher. Thus, if all MLB talent was perfectly evenly distributed by team and position a rating of 44 makes you a starter, and 37 gets you on the active roster. Let's bump that up a bit just to be conservative, and say that 50 means you can probably be a major-league starter, and 40 means you likely belong on an active roster.

By that metric, there are

23 hitters in Japan who are pretty clearly major-league starters (>50)
65 hitters in Japan who would make a major-league active roster. (>37)

Again -- that's just the hitters. Does that sound at all accurate? (Pitchers look fine; about 4-6 guys who could make MLB rotations right now and a handful more in the bullpen).

Just looking at the two of the three top-rated players :

Seiichi Uchikawa has a lifetime .816 OPS in Japan; according to the editor, his ratings would produce a .838 OPS in the majors. I don't know a damn thing about Seiichi Uchikawa, but I think it's pretty unlikely that at age 32 he'd do better in the majors than he ever has in Japan.

Jose Lopez had a ML career OPS of .688; in two years in Japan, he's hit .795. The ratings project him for this year -- in the majors -- at .836!

It's not universal: Wladimir Balentin looks fine, as do Lastings Milledge and Tad Iguchi and a few other well-known names. But the problem goes on down the line with the less-well-known players:

Luis Cruz
ML: .590
***:.687
Ratings projected ML: .733

Keiji Obuki
***: .671
Ratings projected ML: .689

etc. etc.

Note that it's not just the hitting ratings, it's the defensive ones, including several specific positions. The roster lists 14 players in the majors rated 65+ at 2B … and 18 with the same rating in Japan! The numbers aren't quite as bad at other positions, but there still seems to be inflation at LF, RF and 3B as well.

And the picture looks just as bad in some of the other leagues; going by the ratings, there are 12 batters in the Korean league who could be starters in the Majors right now, and another 40 who could probably make an MLB active roster. That sounds completely wrong from everything I've read about the KBO.

The numbers for Taiwan are 1 and 7, Cuba 8 and 23, Mexico 0 and 12. Those don't sound out of whack, depending on what your opinion is of the level of play in those leagues.

But then again, when I sim out the Korean and Japanese leagues, they don't look as hitting-dominated as the ratings show they should be ... i.e. it's not like the Japanese league is averaging six runs a game.

What's going on here?




I was just getting ready to start a global fictional league using the real rosters -- basically throwing every player in the world into one big fantasy draft -- but at this point I'm holding off.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by frangipard

What's going on here?

Well, let me take a look at this.

At a quick glance, I think you're on to something.

As for being hitting dominated, that's controlled mostly by the modifiers. So even if the hitters are overrated, the leagues won't be too out of wack so long as the modifiers are ok.

The more i look though, the more it looks like you're right, at least as far as Japan goes. Not sure exactly what happened, if it was a db error or my error, but it'll get fixed.

I'll be knocking down a lot of those Japanese hitters in the next day or so. This should look much better next build.

Really good eye. Thanks much!

[Lukas Berger]

I can't track down what happened, but it seems that something went weird in the db for the *** at some point. Because even guys like Zealous Wheeler are rated at 3*, and we didn't have him anywhere near that before. But at the last import, he gained a ton of power and all his ratings went up, for no apparent reason.

That seems to be the case for quite a few other *** guys as well.

Again, really glad you caught this frangipard. Can't thank you enough

[frangipard]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

I'll be knocking down a lot of those Japanese hitters in the next day or so. This should look much better next build.

Cool.

Do you have any idea when that will be? I saw Markus saying they were basically all taking a break for a bit ... does that mean no update/patch till the OD one?

Again, really glad you caught this frangipard. Can't thank you enough

Just trying to do my part ...

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by frangipard

Cool.

Do you have any idea when that will be? I saw Markus saying they were basically all taking a break for a bit ... does that mean no update/patch till the OD one?

Not entirely sure.

If you want, I can send you the rosters once I get them updated. It's the least I can do in return for your catching this.

[Habsfan18]

I'll hold off until the opening day roster update to start my main league game. Hopefully by then the *** issues have been fixed as well.

[frangipard]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

If you want, I can send you the rosters once I get them updated. It's the least I can do in return for your catching this.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Habsfan18

I'll hold off until the opening day roster update to start my main league game. Hopefully by then the *** issues have been fixed as well.

They're pretty much fixed now. 90% at least, just need to do some tweaking and testing.

[frangipard]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

They're pretty much fixed now. 90% at least, just need to do some tweaking and testing.

Did you check Korea, too?

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by frangipard

Did you check Korea, too?

Yep, working on them.

[npollock]

Houston SS Jonathan Villar has been playing CF this spring. In-game his OF ratings are all around 4/8 with 0 experience.

[Tribe1450]

Game time schedules are not correct for 2015 MLB schedule. I only noticed because the Indians schedule has every game as a night game (all 162) and all starting at 7:30. Indians have a new start time of :10 past the hour this year and several 6:10 evening start times in April/May

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by frangipard

Did you check Korea, too?

Ok, think I'm done with Korea.

They weren't that bad, didn't have the big issues Japan did, but I did do a bit of tweaking.

[Doc_Brown]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

Ok, think I'm done with Korea.

They weren't that bad, didn't have the big issues Japan did, but I did do a bit of tweaking.

Good work.