Updating Player Ratings

[Gordontrek]

Apologies if this is the wrong forum or if this topic has been beat to death unawares to me (I did a search and couldn't come up with anything).

How do you experienced modders update player ratings? Do you use a formula, some basic chart, etc.?? Most of the ratings in updated rosters seem to be pretty accurate and I'm curious as to how you get to them.

[Pims51]

I wouldn't in any way call myself an experienced modder, but what I do for player ratings is this:

1) Load your game's default roster.

2) Match a player's stats from the past season with his in-game ratings.

3) Do this for several values, you should see a trend appearing.
4) Transform that trend into a mathematical formula (mostly linear in my case) on a spreadsheet

For other ratings like fielding and speed for batters, I read reviews about players on these aspects. For what it's worth, BR's MLB 500 gives you an idea of a player's fielding and baserunning, though it has to be taken with a grain of salt.

For pitchers' pitches, I recommend Brooks Baseball or yesnetwork.stats.com .

Hope I've been helpful.
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