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Originally Posted by endgame
...To that end, what import would these suggestions actually hold for you? Wouldn't you turn them off if it were an option?
Also, I agree that tracking development in-game is problematic. While I have never selected Track All Player Development (whatever the label), I've always presumed it offered up the same reports you get on your own players; vague at best, but doing so for the entire league. Not a report I would want to have generated on a regular basis. On the other hand, unlike you, obstensibly deferring to your own judgment given hard and fast real ratings, I'm inclined to favor ambiguity, allowing me to utilize intuitive management skills, as is RL, rather than exercising practical mathematical predictions with actual data not normally acquired in experience.
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I actually would rather defer to my own judgement -- though I'd like help on the judgement of moving a guy from Short A to Single A, for instance, or Short A to rookie league. Ultimately, of course, I will make the decision, and I would ignore recommendations regarding AAA and my ML clubs. But with 125+ players in an organization, there needs to be some kind of
working report that can aid in the process of promotion/demotion/development. And this report fails miserably in everything it tries to do.
I also prefer a bit of ambiguity, which is why I use a small scale (1-10) rather than a 20-80, or 1-100. Scouting seems to be too tedious when I used to use it, so just turned it off. So having scouting off is much more of an indictment of scouting than it is an indication that I dislike ambiguity of player ratings.
I've since looked for other ways to help me decide promotion/demotion, and have decided to rely on VORP. Every month or so, I'll take the couple of players with the highest VORP and promote them, and demote the couple with the lowest VORP. I'll vary it a bit with RC/27 for batters, but haven't tried a secondary stat I like with pitchers.