Out of up to 80 man rosters in the preseason (and at least that many per team within the system overall) there are only 24 starters per each team -- so that's like 30% of the league are technically starters if I have it right.RyanM wrote:My only complaint about either of the scales is that we're essentially saying that either 69.28% (Ben's) or 75.63% (Troy's scale) of the players in the league are either below average starters or worse. I think the "B" rated scale maybe needs to be extended to capture more of the players, which are "solid starters".
And how many "starters" in today's salary-cap parity world are not truly established? How many are starting mostly because of injuries or bad team depth or because of a situation? If only 5% of those "starters" are not really established starters who'd start for any team (and I'd personally say that's low), then that makes it 25% established starter level players about at the figure quoted above. There are a ton of backups and unsigned free agent types in the league and our system filling up the bottom 75% of grade scale.
More than just general percentages, though, looking at the individuals and the grouping of individuals is important and trying to make sure that our letter grades fit the groupings established by same madden rating for the most part. It's difficult with so much difference of opinion, but hopefully where we put the markers for the various accomplishment levels matches the groupings as best we can on the whole.
Can we map some individuals who really should be "established starters" (not unproven rookies or guys battling for starter spot or questionable starters there because of injury) who aren't graded as such? Probably but that's likely something with the madden score that maybe doesn't fit the judgement of others, but we'd need to find many within the same madden score group that are not classified as they should and can shift the scale accordingly.