Re: The Game's Community Ratings Calculator
If I could just stick my nose in a bit where it doesn't quite belong to add some perspective...After all TheGame is referencing the 'incident' we had when making the Hybrid roster back in 2015.
As far as giving (for free) the community a "calculator" to use, that's really a luxury. I think many of us who have seriously considered and edited ratings before have our own personal "calculator" which is really just a glorified Excel sheet where you can type a stat into one box and have a rating pop out in another. I have my own calculator and have for 3 years now. It turns a wide variety of projections, defensive stats, and potentials into ratings but I haven't had the inkling to make it public and frankly probably never will. In that sense, people should be grateful that TheGame even wants to share his work and go through all the trouble of supporting it for guys on PC's and guys on MAC's and guys who are noobs at using spreadsheet programs and guys who need to call the Geek Squad over just to turn their machine on. Or guys that will make it a point to disagree with you over methodology and do it in the most uninformed and disagreeable way possible. Who wants to build a calculator and spend time dealing with all that? Not me. Not most people.
Now, about the sharing of work on OS--we found out the hard way a couple of years ago what "the community" can do if you let them do whatever with your work. We made a massive spreadsheet in 2015 and made it public in the spirit of letting people on OS look up salary info, age, service time, ratings, pitch edits, etc etc you name it for their own projects. And about 2 weeks after, while we were in the throes of making the Hybrid roster (we had threads up and everyone knew we were already doing it), there was one particularly impatient OS member--no need to bring out any names or anything--who essentially tried to grind his way through our ratings spreadsheet by himself and release his own roster, which he interestingly called....Hybrid.
This guy didn't really address any of the other things/details we normally would've--making a good roster is a very intensive process with many small details that most don't even notice--and naturally people were confused for basically the rest of the summer about what roster was what. We went back and forth with this guy and asked him to retract his roster from the vault, which he eventually did. But, by then the damage had been done in the sense that OS members were somewhat permanently confused about what to download. So we spent the next few weeks, in addition to already working way too much on the real Hybrid roster, dealing with people's questions and confusions over the proliferations of these fake rosters that had come back to bite us after being "too giving" with our data.
Now, dear OS reader, maybe you think I'm the jerk after reading through that poignant story, and I don't particularly care, but I totally agree with the current Hybrid team's reasoning on this. And this is something "the community" inflicted on itself via its past actions/decisions.
If I could just stick my nose in a bit where it doesn't quite belong to add some perspective...After all TheGame is referencing the 'incident' we had when making the Hybrid roster back in 2015.
As far as giving (for free) the community a "calculator" to use, that's really a luxury. I think many of us who have seriously considered and edited ratings before have our own personal "calculator" which is really just a glorified Excel sheet where you can type a stat into one box and have a rating pop out in another. I have my own calculator and have for 3 years now. It turns a wide variety of projections, defensive stats, and potentials into ratings but I haven't had the inkling to make it public and frankly probably never will. In that sense, people should be grateful that TheGame even wants to share his work and go through all the trouble of supporting it for guys on PC's and guys on MAC's and guys who are noobs at using spreadsheet programs and guys who need to call the Geek Squad over just to turn their machine on. Or guys that will make it a point to disagree with you over methodology and do it in the most uninformed and disagreeable way possible. Who wants to build a calculator and spend time dealing with all that? Not me. Not most people.
Now, about the sharing of work on OS--we found out the hard way a couple of years ago what "the community" can do if you let them do whatever with your work. We made a massive spreadsheet in 2015 and made it public in the spirit of letting people on OS look up salary info, age, service time, ratings, pitch edits, etc etc you name it for their own projects. And about 2 weeks after, while we were in the throes of making the Hybrid roster (we had threads up and everyone knew we were already doing it), there was one particularly impatient OS member--no need to bring out any names or anything--who essentially tried to grind his way through our ratings spreadsheet by himself and release his own roster, which he interestingly called....Hybrid.
This guy didn't really address any of the other things/details we normally would've--making a good roster is a very intensive process with many small details that most don't even notice--and naturally people were confused for basically the rest of the summer about what roster was what. We went back and forth with this guy and asked him to retract his roster from the vault, which he eventually did. But, by then the damage had been done in the sense that OS members were somewhat permanently confused about what to download. So we spent the next few weeks, in addition to already working way too much on the real Hybrid roster, dealing with people's questions and confusions over the proliferations of these fake rosters that had come back to bite us after being "too giving" with our data.
Now, dear OS reader, maybe you think I'm the jerk after reading through that poignant story, and I don't particularly care, but I totally agree with the current Hybrid team's reasoning on this. And this is something "the community" inflicted on itself via its past actions/decisions.
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