Updated BA grades & risk
This offseason we're tweaking how we evaluate prospects in a significant way by updated our BA Grade/Risk scale.
We're trying to more accurately describe what "average" risk is for a prospect while also giving ourselves more room to bucket players into different tiers. All while avoiding an older math problem that didn't smoothly progress from one risk tier to the next.
While you'll first see this new system in place with pro prospects in the prospect handbook, this will also have a real impact on the amateur side. The new scale will allow us to differentiate draft prospects in a more precise way with grades that more accurately reflect different tiers of talent.
We're also expanding the 20/80 role scale down, because while most players we write up in the Prospect Handbook will carry some sort of big league value, that's not inherently the case for draft prospects.
Overall this new grade/risk scale should help us better align our amateur and pro prospect grades, effectively bucket players into different tiers and more accurately describe prospect risks.
You can read more about the changes in this piece from JJ Cooper.