

Note: Scouts are much more likely to be inaccurate when determining potential for younger players. It's just your coaching staff providing the information instead.)įor more information about current vs potential ratings, see Overall and Potential Ratings. (If you have scouting turned off, you still see potential ratings. A potential rating (such as Contact Potential) is your scouting director's assessment of how good this player could possibly become at this ability over time. The value given with just the ability name (Contact) is an assessment of the player's current skill level in this particular ability. For example, batters have both a Contact rating and a Contact Potential rating. For each batting or pitching skill, players have two ratings instead of one: a current and a potential rating. There are lots of ratings in OOTP, but batting and pitching ratings alone have one other special feature. He seems likely to turn into the prototypical power hitter who hits for a low average, with lots of strikeouts, but some pop. So, in the graphic above, we can see that this hitter has "good" Power Potential, but "poor" Avoid K's Potential. Note: You cannot change the ratings scale if you are in an online league, and are not the commissioner.Įachscreenthat shows player ratings also has a color coding system, as follows: You can choose whether these ratings should be displayed as their actual ratings, or if you just want to consider anything above the max as the max, i.e. However, there are some rare cases where a player will have a rating that is over the defined maximum, such as a 120 on a 1-100 scale. The vast majority of ratings fall in the range defined by your ratings scales. They are simply not visible to the human player. Even if ratings are not displayed, however, they still exist and are used by the computer in decision-making.

Here is an example of some batting ratings:

That means that the player ratings you see on the screen may not be the players' true ratings, but instead they are your scout's assessment of that player's ratings. OOTP's scouting model is enabled by default. The higher the number, the better the player is at that particular skill. In OOTP, players have a number of skills that are assigned numeric ratings approximating the player's ability.
