What do you use to determing a Players real value?

[ravinhood]

I must say I am a bit surprised that the Star ratings and even the numerical ratings don't even hardly come close to telling me how good a player is anymore. I used to could rely on these features pretty good but now a 1 star player hits and plays better than a 5 star player. a 40 CON hits and does more than a 82-90 CON with 70 POW and 80 EYE. I've got UTILITY players who play better and have overall better stats than normal everyday players. Runs, RBI's, Doubles, ERA and the list continues. I can trade for crap players now and they do better than the star players that want 16 million dollars and have an era of 5.16 vs my mediocre players with 3.16 and 120 strikeouts. lol
OOTPBB 10 has to be the WORST stat based by ratings and stars of the entire series.

You want a great team guys? lol Just go around the league and look at all the teams AAA players actual stats and get them for a song (pay them $660,000) and you'll be in the playoffs if not winning the world series in no time flat. I could probably win with a $25,000,000 roster now with this kind of crap going on.

[ptwarr18]

I welcome you to join the waiting list of my league because I'd love to see if that works...

[POKeefe]

Originally Posted by ptwarr18

I welcome you to join the waiting list of my league because I'd love to see if that works...

Yeah, that doesn't work in iMLB... lol. You may see some #5 pitchers pitch more like #3 and aces having bad years, but you will not see what you're saying. Everyone has fluke seasons, but over the long haul, guys will play to their ratings.

[damientheomen3]

Originally Posted by ravinhood

I must say I am a bit surprised that the Star ratings and even the numerical ratings don't even hardly come close to telling me how good a player is anymore. I used to could rely on these features pretty good but now a 1 star player hits and plays better than a 5 star player. a 40 CON hits and does more than a 82-90 CON with 70 POW and 80 EYE. I've got UTILITY players who play better and have overall better stats than normal everyday players. Runs, RBI's, Doubles, ERA and the list continues. I can trade for crap players now and they do better than the star players that want 16 million dollars and have an era of 5.16 vs my mediocre players with 3.16 and 120 strikeouts. lol
OOTPBB 10 has to be the WORST stat based by ratings and stars of the entire series.

You want a great team guys? lol Just go around the league and look at all the teams AAA players actual stats and get them for a song (pay them $660,000) and you'll be in the playoffs if not winning the world series in no time flat. I could probably win with a $25,000,000 roster now with this kind of crap going on.

Well, the utility players having huge seasons is realistic on a few levels. First, players have breakout seasons. Second, utility players having big years happens in real life all the time, except the teams then start them more and it usually hurts them. Anyway, you can't just go by stars alone as is, they're there to be a quick evaluation of players, but are you using scouting? If so, what scouting accuracy are you using? It could be that you're just getting lucky with players that your scout doesn't rate very highly.

[damientheomen3]

I tried your tactic over 2 seasons. My team went 58-104 the first year, 38-124 the second year.

[RchW]

Turn off ratings and go by stats. It's the only fair way to play.

[DanDiaz]

The players may actually be playing to their ratings, your scout is just inaccurate.

There are a lot of 4 and 5 star players with good raitings, if you look at some of them in editor, they stink. There are also a lot of 1-2 star, although not as many, players who actually have decent raitings in editor.

Socuts are wildly inaccurate, especially with young players in OOTP 10.