Evaluating Your Players- How to Determine How Effective A Player Will Be 

Phillies will be on stream today, actually tougher to figure out and balance than expected, but we've got an interesting team put together.

@@sgtmushroom awesome. Look forward to watching it. I just headed into work so I'll be watching it tonight. Appreciate the content I can't wait till Saturday LOL

@@sgtmushroom what exactly did you mean they ( Phillies) would be on stream today?

@@Donlewis4683 It was on my twitch, twitch.tv/sgtmushroom39. Vod should still be saved if you want to check it out. Alternatively I can make a video and post it to the youtube

@@sgtmushroom I figured it was on twitch. I don't have twitch yes you could throw it up on RU-vid that'd be great.

100% scouting accuracy is a setting you can enable. I don't use it for actual play (although I will note it's the default accuracy for historical leagues, as those are based on real player statistics), this is simply a league that I created as a showcase, for videos such as this.

@@sgtmushroom - Thank you for the response, I am SORRY for my choice of words, I went back and reread my post and when I saw how it read about the change was being a cheat... it WAS my "Duh!" moment. I DID NOT mean to say you were cheating in playing the game, perhaps its better saying that OOTP players need to know that scouting using "regular" scouting will only see 10% of the teams players in green (high) or blue (Very High) UNLESS you spend time each turn or week scouting each level (5 players per level is my usual) and I happened to have one of my leagues just coming up to scouting the draft. SO I scouted 338 potential draftees (2.5 star and above, 95+ speed/steal, 75+stuff/control) and it took all 5 weeks to get reports on those players done. Of those players only 27 achieved green or blue scouting (High/Very High) and I ran out of time to do second rounds on the draftees. Hopefully that explains better what I was trying to say about scouting. And I meant no disrespect to you or your vlog! it is excellent work Sgt.!!

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "historical averages".

@@sgtmushroom you keep saying historical average in your video. Probably a good idea to define what that is and why you keep using it

@@1who4me There isn't really a set definition for how I used the term, and frankly, it's irrelevant to understanding what I'm saying. Technically, it could be defined by the OOTP standard of 2014 MLB stats, but again, I wouldn't put that on there.

That personality is only ever so slightly better... it's not worth the extreme amounts of talent, drop in price, and controllability of Soto.

@@sgtmushroom You're probably right lol in Civ i spend way too long on tiny mechanics like amenities where your just fine if you ignore all that for the most part. Thanks for the vids they are very informative!

Contact is a combination of avoid K's, home run power, and BABIP. BABIP is, of course, the only thing in that rating that matters. You can calculate BABIP from contact, avoid K's, and home run power, although I do not currently have a formula for the purpose.

Now in the description. Thanks for pointing that out

Actually, you just made my point for me. Gap power = slugging percentage. Technically, the weaker part of slugging percentage, since home runs are more valuable. Slugging percentage is NOT moneyball (technically, defense and movement is in OOTP). If you're familiar with the hitting statistic weighted on base average, you'll know that extra base hits aren't really that much more valuable than singles. Gap power largely draws away from singles, and since a 2B is only like 35% more valuable than a single, gap power is much less valuable than BABIP. Significantly less.