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Quote: Originally Posted by MrOldboy

It's nice that Dozier has great OBP and his advanced stats look good, but we're talking about a video game here and one that values skills differently from real life. For instance, his OBP might influence his plate discipline, but the rating that counts more is his contact and a .265 average doesn't translate to something that high in game. They couldn't bring his contact up any more so they upped his power a bit. There isn't much more room for Dozier to grow if he is rated properly in terms of what the game values. We might value his on base skills and above-average power at 2B, but the game has it's own value system in terms of it's overall rating calculation. It's not that SDS doesn't look at advanced stats, they may very well look at them heavily. But in the game they created many of them don't matter. They built a simulation system and gameplay system to works with their ratings. In game a player might be rated very high because of his power ratings, yet in real life his value tanks due to his high strike out rate. In game that low vision rating doesn't affect his calculated value (overall) that much compared to if his power rating was dropped.

I agree for the most part and I think he'll stay around an 86. The main problem I had with his initial ratings were that he had EXTREME splits. He was basically a completely different player at the plate against RH and that wasn't really accurate. They fixed that and gve him a little boost with this update.

I could argue his fielding rating could get a small bump, because I think hes borderline elite for his position, but he obviously plays 2B for a reason (he couldn't play SS) so it's not that big a deal to me.