#2 pick becomes useless the day after the draft
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2016 9:53 pm
Behold the tale of Ryszard Bednorz, the prospect who wasn't.
You may have clicked on the link and asked yourself, "why the hell would anybody use the #2 pick in the draft on that guy?"
The knee-jerk answer is "nobody", but the after-the-facts-are-known answer is "probably anybody, because 'that guy' wasn't 'that guy' when he was drafted."
Check out Exhibits 1 and 2:
He was a potential 5-star player the day I drafted him, and the day after the draft ended his potential had plummeted to 1 star (or 1 1/2 according to my generous scout).
My first reaction to this was "this is some kind of mistake, somehow Bednorz' ratings got switched with someone else's," but this is OOTP. OOTP will sometimes just decimate a player's ratings, no explanation given. Not that an explanation would have reversed the decimation, but considering how the game loves to regale us with tales of players tripping over their dogs and falling down the stairs or slicing their thumbs while dicing papayas (things which rarely, if ever, effect their ratings), it would have been nice to have been afforded some insight as to what event or series of events caused the second most promising slugger in the draft to turn into a "below-average hitter" who "just isn't consistent enough to be reliable" a month after every scout in town thought he had 5 power potential.
It's a rotten stroke of luck, to be sure, but bad luck probably isn't any more prevalent in OOTP than it is in real baseball, or for that matter, real life. The fact that this change occurred before the player even stepped onto the field is galling but ultimately no more devastating than if it had happened after a year in AA ball, since that's where he was headed to begin his professional career.
Whatever, there's nothing I can do about it except bitch about it, and I think the past few paragraphs satisfies that requirement. So, moving on...
You may have clicked on the link and asked yourself, "why the hell would anybody use the #2 pick in the draft on that guy?"
The knee-jerk answer is "nobody", but the after-the-facts-are-known answer is "probably anybody, because 'that guy' wasn't 'that guy' when he was drafted."
Check out Exhibits 1 and 2:
He was a potential 5-star player the day I drafted him, and the day after the draft ended his potential had plummeted to 1 star (or 1 1/2 according to my generous scout).
My first reaction to this was "this is some kind of mistake, somehow Bednorz' ratings got switched with someone else's," but this is OOTP. OOTP will sometimes just decimate a player's ratings, no explanation given. Not that an explanation would have reversed the decimation, but considering how the game loves to regale us with tales of players tripping over their dogs and falling down the stairs or slicing their thumbs while dicing papayas (things which rarely, if ever, effect their ratings), it would have been nice to have been afforded some insight as to what event or series of events caused the second most promising slugger in the draft to turn into a "below-average hitter" who "just isn't consistent enough to be reliable" a month after every scout in town thought he had 5 power potential.
It's a rotten stroke of luck, to be sure, but bad luck probably isn't any more prevalent in OOTP than it is in real baseball, or for that matter, real life. The fact that this change occurred before the player even stepped onto the field is galling but ultimately no more devastating than if it had happened after a year in AA ball, since that's where he was headed to begin his professional career.
Whatever, there's nothing I can do about it except bitch about it, and I think the past few paragraphs satisfies that requirement. So, moving on...