Features
A farm system that takes years to tell you the truth
Prospects are the only asset in baseball whose value you learn slowly and expensively.
Personality rides on development
Work ethic drives how much variance there is in a player's development, and intelligence rides the rate. Two prospects with the same scouting report do not have the same distribution of outcomes, which is why the phrase "he is a worker" is not sentimental.
Five levels of farm system
AAA, AA, High-A, A and Rookie, with players assigned where they actually belong rather than parked in an undifferentiated pool.
Coaching is a real seat
Eight coaching positions, and the good ones show up in outcomes rather than in a roster screen. This is a place where a small edge compounds across a decade, which is exactly the kind of thing a career game should reward.
And you are still guessing
Your own prospects come through the same fog as everybody else's, just a thinner one. You will be wrong about some of them, and finding out takes seasons.
Related
The invite-only beta is open. Nothing to install.