Ratings Overview

• A player's skill in various aspects of baseball is reflected in their ratings, including Batting, Pitching, Fielding, and other categories.
• Current ratings indicate the player's current level of skill, while potential ratings represent their maximum potential.
• Leagues can choose the format and precision of the ratings displayed, allowing customization for evaluating players.
• Number ratings range from 1 (worst) to 100 (best) by default, with options to change the range to 10-90 or 20-80.
• Letter ratings correspond to specific ranges: A (85-100), B (70-84), C (55-69), D (40-54), and E (1-39).

Current Ratings

• Current Ratings reflect a player's current skill level, with higher ratings indicating greater ability in that specific area.
• The rating scale is not linear, meaning the difference in ability between ratings of 50 and 60 is smaller than the difference between 60 and 70.
• Starting from ratings of 50 or higher, the higher the number, the larger the difference in skill.

Potential Ratings

• Potential Ratings represent a player's maximum skill level they can reach at their peak.
• These ratings do not change over time, so for veterans, the potential rating shows their best potential rather than their current performance.
• Young players and prospects' potential ratings are particularly important since they have not yet reached their peak.

Summary Ratings (Overall and Potential)

• All players have summary ratings: Overall (an aggregate of their current ratings) and Potential (an aggregate of their potential ratings).
• The Overall and Potential ratings consider all individual ratings, with weightings based on their value and influenced by the player's position and the league's simulation model.
• Position players have summary ratings for Hitting and Fielding, while pitchers have summary ratings for Pitching and Fielding.
• Hitting includes Discipline (DI), Contact (CN), Batting (BA), Slugging (SL), and Speed (SP).
• Pitching includes Power (PO), Finesse (FI), Control (CO), and Specialty (SY).
• Fielding includes Range (RA), Glove (GL), Arm (AR), and Hold Runner (HR) for pitchers only.

Normalization of Ratings

Why use normalization?

• There are many reasons why the average playing rating across leagues can vary:
• The age of the league
• The financial system the league employs (salary cap number, hard/soft cap)
• The number and quality of free agents a team adds each season
• Many many random factors of team creation
• Normalization ensures that the run-scoring environment for leagues stays relatively stable, so the best batters in new leagues play similarly to the best players in older leagues - the best pitchers in leagues with a lower salary cap will play similarly to the best pitchers in leagues with high salary caps.

How does normalization work?

• The average ratings of players is measured throughout the season - only players receiving playtime are factored into the average ratings.