Draft clones questions

[fhhs63]

Okay, I recently discovered draft clones, and I had a few questions.

I did the draft today and I got clones of Kevin Youkilis, Ichiro Suzuki, Jonathan Papelbon, and Felix Hernandez. I looked at the players' potentials, and they were less than what their starting ratings were. Does this mean that these players will just decline as the seasons progress, or will these players actually live up to the potentials of the players they are clones of? Also, do they need to play, and do well, in order to progress right?

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: Draft clones questions

Okay, I recently discovered draft clones, and I had a few questions.

I did the draft today and I got clones of Kevin Youkilis, Ichiro Suzuki, Jonathan Papelbon, and Felix Hernandez. I looked at the players' potentials, and they were less than what their starting ratings were. Does this mean that these players will just decline as the seasons progress, or will these players actually live up to the potentials of the players they are clones of? Also, do they need to play, and do well, in order to progress right?

How can you tell that they are clones of these people?

[fhhs63]

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How can you tell that they are clones of these people?

Because they have basically the same face, they are the same position, and their batting stance or pitching stance will be of the player they are cloning (like the Youkilis guy has KY's batting stance). Seems that there are many, many clones, and it just takes luck to get one with high potential.

[duke776]

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Does this mean that these players will just decline as the seasons progress, or will these players actually live up to the potentials of the players they are clones of?

I doubt as the season progresses, but after the season I'm sure they'll regress. Also, they will not live up to the potential of the real player.

Also, do they need to play, and do well, in order to progress right?

Not sure about this. I haven't looked into how progression works yet.

[fhhs63]

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I doubt as the season progresses, but after the season I'm sure they'll regress. Also, they will not live up to the potential of the real player.



Not sure about this. I haven't looked into how progression works yet.

Yeah, I meant as the seasonS progress. And I find it weird how some "clones" have high potentials and some don't.....aren't they supposed to be clones?

[duke776]

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Yeah, I meant as the seasonS progress. And I find it weird how some "clones" have high potentials and some don't.....aren't they supposed to be clones?

I don't know that they're supposed to be clones, someone mentioned how they might have done it to add variety to the faces of drafted players, but who knows.

I'm actually happy they're not exact clones of players though, because I don't want to see Derek Jeter reborn and bring greatness to the Angels or the Cardinals to have two Albert Pujols'(although the Albert they drafted has an 82 potential still).

[fhhs63]

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I don't know that they're supposed to be clones, someone mentioned how they might have done it to add variety to the faces of drafted players, but who knows.

No, they're definitely clones. Same exact face, same batting/pitching stance, and same position as well. No coincidence.

[duke776]

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No, they're definitely clones. Same exact face, same batting/pitching stance, and same position as well. No coincidence.

Yeah, what I meant to say was that they don't have the same potential as their counterpart. So I don't know if it was intended for the same guys to come in an dominate the league.

[SphillyBG]

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There not really clones,clones would be exact copys,and these have differnt stats and ratings.And the potential number is not what their overall will cap at,its a rating just like power vs LHP.So a guy with 80 pot will progress more than one with 65,but neither will stop when there OVR reaches that number,nor does it gurantee that they will ever reach that number.

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How can you tell that they are clones of these people?

Same face, same position, same height/weight (for the most part), same throwing and batting side.

[SphillyBG]

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Same face, same position, same height/weight (for the most part), same throwing and batting side.

Yea but all players generated for the draft are created from a original player already in the game,the CPU just randomly changes things around,and sometimes it doesnt change as much and they come out with very similar stats/looks/stance but there is always something different with them.
Im not a genius i read this from some guy who is.