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It is an interesting concept. Like you say PL would be better than scrimmages for most players as scrimmages are used for training minutes pretty heavily.

One thing I wonder about (and may be relevant to something like this) is this:

As a player moves up the levels in a certain statistic e.g. JR is it a consistent increase in ability. e.g. does someone with inept (4) have half the ability of some one with stong (8), and in turn does someone with strong have half the ability of someone with prodigious (16) or does the increase in skill slow per level?

e.g. is the skill difference between wondrous and marvelous the same as the difference between prodigious and stupendous?

I guess it wouldn't really matter either way in the situation you have brought up - in fact the differences may be greater on these lower level player skills...

very good point and ive thought of this myself.

your basically asking, is the increase linear?

I can only make the assumption that it is. Ratings appear to be linear, and in general, pops in a stat category appear to make a linear difference to a player. This would support sub-levels, etc etc..., BUT, the argument against this, would be that salary increase is not linear.

So perhaps its not? I dont believe anyone actually knows the answer to this.

I thougt how this would affect any PL where you have scrubs testing SB out - and how you could apply any general concepts across the board.

Say in the game where the SB on the players goes from Inept to Medicore, makes a MASSIVE difference. But maybe its a tipping point? Maybe once your defensive players hit a certain point, its just gets better and better exponentially.

SO yer, it could very much affect this. But i can only work on the assumption that its linear.

your basically asking, is the increase linear?

Exactly.

I guess it is a reasonable assumption to make as no-one other than the BB's would be able to tell you for sure.

yer.

but it could be couldnt it! :)

logically, that would actually go inline with salary increases.

however because the salary increases have been variable (and they have dropped significantly this season) - if salary was someone tightly coupled to the non-linear stat increase then i would imagine that these recent salary changes would also affect player performance.

but i dont think that is the case. so yer. assume its linear.