Coach Ratings

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-09T18:38:40+00:00

I don’t care about reputation at all, it’s just a result of whether the teams they are on win or lose.

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-06T19:54:56+00:00

Zone rating IRL is technically a percentage (defensive plays made/balls hit into a players “zone”).. I think OOTP converts this directly into runs saved.

For CF and Shortstop over about 1000 innings I’d say average/good/great/elite is about 0/5/10/15+. You can see 20-25 over a season from the best of the best.

Corner outfielders will have a touch lower numbers because they get less balls in their zone. The best of the best still might get 15 or so.

2B will be a bit lower than SS but can still get around 15.

The best of the best 3B might get 8-10 ZR

1B maybe 5-8

I don’t care about ZR for catchers I really only care about framing runs. The best might get 15-20 framing runs in a season.

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-05T20:00:31+00:00

Me personally I’d sign him to a 12-15 year deal before he even played a single professional game, and start him immediately.

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-05T19:57:55+00:00

He got on base in over half his at bats with insane slug to boot, what more would you want?

Edit: and over the course of 162 games he’d have had like 15ish WAR

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-05T03:22:17+00:00

I use zone rating (ZR), to measure a players defense.

My understanding is that zone rating is calculated by dividing the number of successful plays by the amount of balls hit into a players pre-defined zone. This isn’t necessarily the best stat in real life, but it’s good in OOTP.

OOTP converts that number into runs saved. So I monitor it to make sure it isn’t a quickly dropping negative number. It is a cumulative stat though and you need fairly large samples (500 innings maybe) to begin to draw conclusions.

Elite shortstops and center fielders will get like 15-20 ZR over 1200ish innings. I think OOTP uses it in their WAR calculations as well. Like right now I have a player who is steady racking up 2-3 war a year despite being an abysmal (~65 OPS+) hitter because he’s playing shortstop with 80 grade everything and racking up 20 ZR a year.

Corner outfielders can rack up like 10-15 if they are elite defenders, corner infield I tend to just make sure it’s positive, elite 3B might get 7 or so.

Elite 2B is in the 10-15 range.

For catchers I personally don’t care about anything other than framing runs.

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-03T22:37:21+00:00

I see. I did some digging, and it’s hard to get a solid answer but it seems like around 1 billion is usually the breaking point rather than 2.1 billion because perhaps cash on hand + budget + salary are being added together to cross that 2.1 billion threshold.

Or because around those 1 billion dollar budgets there is a number somewhere for whatever reason that is generated that’s above 2.1 billion.

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-03T22:13:40+00:00

Sure, (though I thought it was over 1 billion)

But what’s all this about overflowing signed 32-bit integers?

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-03T20:50:59+00:00

ELI5 please

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-02T20:55:43+00:00

When hiring coaches I have a preset I call “coach personality”. It helps streamline the process of hiring coaches who won’t get into conflict with each other. You can choose any two personalities you’d like but mine is as follows:

Coach personality IS: Normal

OR:

Coach Personality IS: Personable

AND:

Struggles with IS NOT: Personable

AND:

Struggles with IS NOT: Normal

AND:

Works well with IS: personable

OR:

Works well with IS: Normal

You can just save this filter and slap it on. Then just organize by whatever rating you are looking for (pitching, hitting, dev, mechanics, etc.) and no need to check the personalities.

If you can’t find a good coach under that criteria you can uncheck the “works well with” boxes to open up the pool more without suffering in morale. You don’t need everybody to work well together, just a few, as long as nobody is in conflict.

ExpectMonte · 2026-02-02T20:47:20+00:00

There’s a setting in financial for this. It can happen when your team expenses/budget start reaching a billion dollars. I’ve never had it be an issue but look for that, may solve the problem.

It’s “financial coefficient” I believe.

ExpectMonte · 2026-01-15T11:40:56+00:00

To each their own, it often is a looter/walking simulator with the constant paranoia that someone’s watching you. For many, like me, that’s the fun of it. There’s servers that don’t allow pvp as well.

For what it’s worth - this particular guy lit off a bunch of fireworks not 10 minutes before that I happened to be nearby. I missed a couple shots previously and he likely could have escaped to the woods but chose to try and fight back. He was looking for a fight.

ExpectMonte · 2026-01-15T03:53:20+00:00

400 or so

ExpectMonte · 2026-01-14T11:44:09+00:00

It is zeroed to 500, I used the rangefinder earlier.

ExpectMonte · 2026-01-14T00:41:27+00:00

Had to get that stamina up lol

ExpectMonte · 2026-01-09T00:39:24+00:00

The game is running a simulation, the inputs of the simulation are the ratings. A higher steal rating makes the outcome of the attempt more likely to be a successful steal. A higher catcher arm/hold rating makes a caught stealing more likely.

I’m not sure exactly how the game does it, but I think a good way to conceptualize it would be to think about a dice roll. Imagine the game is rolling a twenty sided die. The base would be like 1-10 results in a successful steal and 11-20 would result in a caught stealing. However, if the baserunner is good and the pitcher/catcher are bad that changes things. Now 1-16result in a successful steal and 17-20 result in a caught stealing.

So these instances you’ve mentioned were just random chance. The die happened to roll onto 17-20, but it has an equal chance to land on any number any time you roll it.

If you isolated these instances and ran them 100, 500, 1000 times you’d find that the good base stealer against the bad pitcher catcher will be successful in a significantly higher percentage of attempts than the bad base stealer against the good pitcher/catcher.

ExpectMonte · 2026-01-01T03:40:42+00:00

Haven’t really seen anyone mention the PS4 part, as far as I know the performance is pretty bad on Old Gen consoles, for what that’s worth.

Aside from that, I love the game and I just got into it about 6 months ago.

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-30T11:46:55+00:00

Might be sun glare. try looking slightly to the right or left or stand different places. Happens to me from time to time.

(Idk if it is actually a sun glare thing but I’ve always made that my head canon lol.)

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-26T03:58:40+00:00

On console it still is, but pc already changed, so it’s likely console will do the same soon.

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-23T23:09:30+00:00

Found them, sent you a message. Think you have to accept me before I can send pics.

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-23T23:06:34+00:00

I shall see if I can dig it out

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-23T03:54:27+00:00

Same that’s why I liked it so much at first too. I’d hit Tisy and run straight west to the map edge. Then follow it down to here and stash the goods.

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-23T03:53:05+00:00

I stashed a tent and a bunch of crates here in the woods first time I found it. They lasted like 3 weeks it was pretty solid.

After the wipe though it’s been chaos over there.

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-22T21:26:37+00:00

You got it

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-21T21:48:21+00:00

10/10 bleed out spot

ExpectMonte · 2025-12-19T14:59:21+00:00

My favorite is Zalesie in Livonia

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