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60+ hours of work later and I am finally done!

When I first started this, I was thinking it would be a quick project for my franchises, but as I started working on it, I thought it would be best to put a good amount of work into it and share it with everybody. I honestly think this is the best roster available for hardcore sim franchise players.

Here are the roster features that make it unique:

-Every team's top 10 prospects (MLB Pipeline)

-Most of every team's top 15 prospects are included and a good majority of each team's top 30

-I created a "tier" system for player ratings based on their current level (MLB/AAA/etc.) and their actual performances

-For MLB players, I used fangraphs WAR as an indicator for what their current overall should be, supplemented by some other analytics like wRC+/FIP/etc to be as accurate as possible

-For MiLB players, every level has a ratings spread that players fall into. Based on their performance at a certain level, that's how I determined their overall. I also included ETA into my calculations to generate roughly accurate timelines to being MLB ready in the game

-Potentials for both MLB players and MiLB players were generated based off of perceived "future roles" for younger players who are not in their primes yet and "past roles" for older players who are declining, but still good players

-The tier system for current overalls creates more balance across the rosters. When you start your franchise, "elite" and "very good" players should feel more like that, while "average" players should all clump together performance-wise.

-The balance in the potentials does a multitude of things. For one, it extends the life of franchises because it should prevent a massive gathering of players in the mid to upper 80s where suddenly anybody who isn't a "B" potential is useless. Two, it should create a logjam of players in the low to mid 70s. These players are maybe just good enough to be on MLB rosters, but there isn't necessarily anything that separates them from most everyone else. Just like the real majors, there's a lot of fringe guys on rosters and a lot of turnover. Additionally, every now and then, one of those fringe guys breaks out and becomes a long term piece. The Show's dynamic potential system should help make that be a more realistic thing. Meanwhile, players in the upper 70s are considered "average MLB starters" so they should make long careers out of those roles.

-Edited RPs and CPs so that current and future CP level pitchers are actually in those roles. No more random guys labeled as CP, only guys who could actually fill those roles

-Fangraphs has a "new pitch tracker" every year. I took a look at the 2020 list and adjusted certain pitchers accordingly.

I also want to give credit for the base roster to mkharsh33.

I implore everyone to at least take a look at it. I think it will be very well worth your time. I also will happily take any feedback you want to send my way. I'm curious to see if there are deficiencies and areas I can improve on. Also be sure to leave a like when you download so others can see it!

Search "Best/Elite Roster for Franchise" or my username: ViatorLion10 to find the roster

Hope you all enjoy. Can't wait for this quarantine to be over and to get to the real baseball.

I've got to be honest, I've been more and more underwhelmed with Ridin's minor league rosters every year. This year, I thought maybe since he was working with SDS he would step it up a notch, but it doesn't seem like that at all. I still found more than a few egregious errors and missing players that absolutely should have been included.

In conjunction with that, the base SDS roster has plenty of flaws as well. Due to these issues, I usually take a good amount of time to edit the rosters to my liking before starting my multiple franchises. Last year I posted them in my vault and got some decent responses, so I thought I'd make them available again this year.

I am currently working to finalize them as quickly as possible. I'm getting antsy to start my franchises myself. I'm hoping to have them done this weekend for everyone to use. This post is just a heads up for those hardcore sim guys who want realistic rosters. Here are some of the features that will be included in my roster set:

-Every team's top 10 prospects (MLB pipeline) are included (not included in base rosters)
-Most, if not all, of team's top 15 prospects are included (average of 14 per team)
-Prospect overalls are more accurate according to the current level they are at, how well they're playing, and their ETA for MLB arrival
-More balanced potentials (potential ratings scaled based on future projected roles; less "A", more "B", even more "C")
-Edited major leaguers to scale OVR to current roles and adjusted potentials in a similar fashion to minor leaguers (Note: most MLB players will actually be left unedited minus potential alterations)

The hope of this roster is to create a more balanced sim experience while also getting even more top prospects available to play with. Keep an eye on my vault at "ViatorLion10", but I also will post here when I have them ready.

@kush_coder_psn said in Why are so many ages wrong in the roster?:

@viatorlion10_psn said in Why are so many ages wrong in the roster?:

@thegoaler_psn said in Why are so many ages wrong in the roster?:

Why on God's green earth do you need non-MLB players ages to be right?
Some want to go out and drink but are too young?
You want a refund for this?

Also, how can you get ages wrong on your players? This is such a simple thing and an inexcusable oversight. It just really goes to show how little they care.

Combine that with their ineptitude with the vault, and its just enough. We the players deserve better than this garbage we've been given

If I was a franchise only player I think I would only play OOTP baseball. I might grind TheShow all day and play online ton. (I would rather watch paint dry than pitch and hit against CPU players) But I still make sure to get at least 2 hours of OOTP 22 in at night before bed. I currently have a GM franchise for 1 expanded league with 2 new fictional expansions teams. I have my Historical Franchises, and 1 Challenge Mode franchise.
As much as I love the show for an action sim, when it comes to franchise, they don't even compare to OOTP

However, I am not mostly a franchise player. I prefer head to head competition more than single player modes. That's why most of my time is spend on TheShow.

See the thing is I still want to actually play the game as well. What SDS continues to fail to realize is there's still a large following of hardcore sim players who want both the game experience AND the strategy experience.

I don't see why it is so hard to just give your most dedicated base (franchise players) at least some of what they've been asking for.

Having the correct [censored] ages shouldn't even be asked for. It should be give without question and its insulting as a consumer

Poorly rated potentials on top prospects

Welcome to minors rosters with Ridin'. I'm in the minority here, but I think Ridin' is entirely overrated