Broken Bat - Discussion Forum: Draft Day

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#17466	04/10/2015 3:22:13 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I would have went with Puentes too. Looks like he could be a decent player. "Fastball has some pop" mean 12-14 velocity. I usually stay way from those guys unless they have other positive attributes. I don't think 12-14 is really enough to dominate batters.

#17467	04/10/2015 3:22:36 pm
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	Regarding Puentes, in a vacuum, I think he's the pick there. I already have six outfielders in my minors though, two that are 17 and all are 14 or 15 POT. Even if he'd have been a 13 POT guy, there's really not a place for him in Norwalk. If he'd have been a catcher, it likely would be a different story. For me, I'd decided that this was already a lost draft after a quick scan, so I rolled the dice on a possible 12 POT reliever that turned out to be a 9 POT bus ticket with cleats. Considering the slate of players I was offered, not a big loss either way.

#17469	04/10/2015 3:25:41 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Yeah that makes a lot of sense. And OF seems to be the easiest position to find high POT guys. You were pretty much doomed with that set of options. You could have gotten lucky with a high Control/COS guy on the relief but it sounds like he didn't pan out. I suppose the silver lining is that you can be confident you didn't leave anything on the table this week Updated Friday, April 10 2015 @ 3:26:50 pm PDT

#17470	04/10/2015 3:30:21 pm
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	I have multiple waiver claims in over the next few days, so the roster spot may turn out to be more valuable than any one of those guys would have been as well. Updated Friday, April 10 2015 @ 3:41:45 pm PDT

#17494	04/10/2015 7:12:10 pm
Bilbo Shaggins Joined: 01/01/2015 Posts: 59 Inactive	Finally got a good player where should I play him? http://brokenbat.org/player/106287

#17495	04/10/2015 7:31:00 pm
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	SS without question. That is a franchise ss to build around.

#17496	04/10/2015 7:36:57 pm
Slug5373 Joined: 12/23/2014 Posts: 376 Inactive	Dang, nice pickup Bilbo

#17504	04/11/2015 2:23:21 am
Favuz Joined: 02/26/2014 Posts: 638 Oxnard Sunsets IV.3	I have in my minors a 12 pot "very good" prospec, and a 14 pot "good" prospect, but i had never seen a 15 pot "good" until today

#17515	04/11/2015 7:35:03 am
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5201 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	Nice. I went looking for an example of "Above average potential" with a bar of 14, but couldn't find one. Perhaps that is too big a reach. "Above average" with 13 I think are fairly common. Have one of those in my own system. I recently noticed a player that increased the size of his potential bar. Steve seemed to confirm that I wasn't delusional, and that this could happen. Made me wonder - if this were more common, would there be less of an obsession with bar size? Taken to an extreme - if potential bar display were "capped" at 13 for fresh pulls - would that make for more interesting game play? The longer the player is in your system, the more accurate your sense of the bar becomes. It would make long term planning a little more difficult, but would reward managers who are more attentive to how their players are developing.

#17518	04/11/2015 8:17:12 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	I think I've seen a couple guys lose a bar too. I agree that if there was a little more unknown early on it would make things more interesting. I don't think I'd want to cap at 13 though. If a guy really has 17 POT, he probably should be at least a 15 POT even if the scouts are way off on him. BTW, I'm pretty sure I've seen guys lose POT too. If you have a full POT level of potential change on either side that would be a lot. Right now I think it only happens with guys who are right at the max and gain or lose 1 point (due to scouting). If the players could fluctuate +/- 2 points in each skill we could have players going from 12 POT up to 14 or all the way down to 10. Updated Saturday, April 11 2015 @ 8:20:43 am PDT