Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders
Josh - the explicit detail that provide in your responses are first class - I really appreciate the effort you provide from Madden to the Show - I must admit - I have purchased every installment from 17-20 but have played it - wish I would have played 19 now due to the the carryover - but better late than never - I am excited to see all the Show has to offer because I am basically a newbie - Madden & 2K has been my video games for the past years - so I’m really looking forward to this!
I do have a question: in regards to roster abbreviations: what does SDS mean?
Rosters....
I don't usually touch the various custom Full Minors rosters - they all seem to suffer the same flaw; not enough D/F potential guys (which accelerates issues with regression/progression/budget issues/guys retiring too early). I tested out SDS' launch day roster, and it wasn't bad - it was pretty stable for about 6-7 years (I suspect years 7-14 or so will be the worst...and then once the real players get purged, things would begin to re-balance - same thing we see in Madden franchise). Now, in past years, all the various Full Minors rosters had way too few D potential guys (on the scale of 1/5th to 1/10th the number from the SDS rosters). What that does is cause the mode to be de-stabilized after year 1 (maybe year 2 if you are lucky)...easiest way to tell is the highest overall rating of the unsigned free agents after an offseason. You start seeing 2-3 (or more) guys above an 80 OVR left unsigned, you have a problem....exceptions here being players of advanced age. I've said this in other threads, but this is not a knock on these custom rosters, but it's rather a byproduct of them trying to meet the demands of people who want every "prospect" jammed into a 90 man roster (and frankly, the vast majority of guys in AAA/AA are NOT prospects anyways). One other thing, I would NOT advise people start a new franchise with a mid-season roster update (even one from SDS) - you'll run into the same issues as roster updates tend to inflate far more players than they drop down.
So what do I recommend?
Current Season
- Use the SDS launch day roster. Note: I have uploaded an altered version of this to the vault under my username JoshC1977. The only thing I changed were a handful of primary player positions (mostly in the deep minors) so that teams met their roster minimums for each position. This will quell the crazy number of early season trades people experienced.
- Wait for SDS to issue a significant update to the roster. No ETA here.
- I know Ridin's team will be posting their roster in the next week or so. Based on past rosters (and the issues I note above), I can't blindly endorse it. But, I will be assessing it when it launches (quick and dirty method...if you sort by potentials from F to A...the first two pages of players for each team should be all Ds and Fs).
Fictional
Only one option here IMO, and that is Bacon's roster. Extremely well-done and usually as franchise-stable as they come....definitely on par with SDS' roster.
Historic
Very few historic rosters are full minors. The 1987 roster is a classic one though...and it has gotten better every year.
Edit: I never answered the question
I'm running a carryover from '19 started with an SDS roster. I'll also being using Bacon's roster and maybe the 1987 roster for separate chises.
I don't usually touch the various custom Full Minors rosters - they all seem to suffer the same flaw; not enough D/F potential guys (which accelerates issues with regression/progression/budget issues/guys retiring too early). I tested out SDS' launch day roster, and it wasn't bad - it was pretty stable for about 6-7 years (I suspect years 7-14 or so will be the worst...and then once the real players get purged, things would begin to re-balance - same thing we see in Madden franchise). Now, in past years, all the various Full Minors rosters had way too few D potential guys (on the scale of 1/5th to 1/10th the number from the SDS rosters). What that does is cause the mode to be de-stabilized after year 1 (maybe year 2 if you are lucky)...easiest way to tell is the highest overall rating of the unsigned free agents after an offseason. You start seeing 2-3 (or more) guys above an 80 OVR left unsigned, you have a problem....exceptions here being players of advanced age. I've said this in other threads, but this is not a knock on these custom rosters, but it's rather a byproduct of them trying to meet the demands of people who want every "prospect" jammed into a 90 man roster (and frankly, the vast majority of guys in AAA/AA are NOT prospects anyways). One other thing, I would NOT advise people start a new franchise with a mid-season roster update (even one from SDS) - you'll run into the same issues as roster updates tend to inflate far more players than they drop down.
So what do I recommend?
Current Season
- Use the SDS launch day roster. Note: I have uploaded an altered version of this to the vault under my username JoshC1977. The only thing I changed were a handful of primary player positions (mostly in the deep minors) so that teams met their roster minimums for each position. This will quell the crazy number of early season trades people experienced.
- Wait for SDS to issue a significant update to the roster. No ETA here.
- I know Ridin's team will be posting their roster in the next week or so. Based on past rosters (and the issues I note above), I can't blindly endorse it. But, I will be assessing it when it launches (quick and dirty method...if you sort by potentials from F to A...the first two pages of players for each team should be all Ds and Fs).
Fictional
Only one option here IMO, and that is Bacon's roster. Extremely well-done and usually as franchise-stable as they come....definitely on par with SDS' roster.
Historic
Very few historic rosters are full minors. The 1987 roster is a classic one though...and it has gotten better every year.
Edit: I never answered the question
I'm running a carryover from '19 started with an SDS roster. I'll also being using Bacon's roster and maybe the 1987 roster for separate chises.I do have a question: in regards to roster abbreviations: what does SDS mean?
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