POLL 2018 - Player Ratings in ABL

[David - Cleveland]

Currently Player ACTUAL, POTENTIAL and OTHER ratings are on the 1-100 scale. And the OVERALL and POTENTIALS are on the 20-80 scale as NUMBERS.

I believe in a bit of fog when determining how good players are or are not but also would prefer some consistency. I have also often heard 20-80 argued as realistic because scouts use it, which could very well have been the reason why ABL adopted it? And I have no problem continuing on that course because it is a bit different from the 1-10's and 1-5's I tend to see. I do feel however that two different scales, in this case, leads to confusion instead of merely fog. Just my opinion of course.

Because of that I am inclined to move to 20-80 across the board and, to introduce a degree of "fog" within the 20-80 scale, move to 20-80 (increments of 5) scale which is available for strictly the OVR and POT.

And “Stars” can sometimes be a polarizing subject but I am a fan, specifically because of the "graphic fog" they introduce instead of just aligning numbers when evaluating players, especially in trades.

But I respect the differences of opinion GM’s bring to any league, so would love to call a vote on this.

And most importantly, "as is", status quo, leave it alone will always be the first option for many of my polls. AND once we decide the five new ones in this new SUB-forum, I will leave things alone for the coming season so we can all concentrate on baseball!

Please vote and feel free to comment too!
And please vote and comment on only the three choices.

[Nigel_Vancouver]

I hate 20-80 , don't know why but I do

[Derek _ Red Sox]

Never liked the 20-80 myself but it was something different than the standard 1-10 and I liked it better than 1-5, 1-100, etc. What I wish though was in the beginning that I kept potential/overall to stars -OR- keep it as 20-80 because the 1-100 for overall/potential but 20-80 for ratings confused the hell out of me.

I'm getting familiar with the 20-80 scale for ratings and would like to see the potential/overall go to 20-80 to match OR back to stars.

[Erick RockiesGM]

For me it's the minutiae of the numbers that become tedious. Batching it in 5s may work a little bit better for me. seeing the 46 becomes 47...that level of detail is too much for me to appreciate.

[stephbluejays]

i would like to be back to stars

[Deleted]

I like stars only in that I have a feel for them. I don't use player evaluations on them, but they do serve a purpose. I voted for option 3.

[David - Cleveland]

Commissioner's Decision - With three options, this is harder than two of course. It appears a move to 20-80 across the board is the decision and, based on my interpretation of the responses, we will adopt STARS by a narrow margin. Because it is so narrow, I am willing to revisit this after the coming season IF there is willingness on the part of most of the GM's to have a further poll.