Who's Drafting Hall of Famers

DMB has a built in "Clutch and Jam" rating system to provide a minor boost in performance for certain players.  In ATB, we've decided to give above normal Clutch and Jam ratings to inductees into the real life Baseball Hall of Fame.

Here is who has taken advantage of it

Don't worry if you don't have many HoF players, from the help file...

Clutch and Jam Ratings

All DMB batters have Clutch ratings and all DMB pitchers have Jam ratings. Both ratings are used to raise the level of performance in the late innings of close games. DMB gives out a limited number of good clutch and jam ratings each season, and these players are more valuable in those late-inning situations.

But the baseball research community has yet to find any compelling evidence that certain players are able to raise their game consistently in these situations. The evidence seems to suggest that any apparent clutch performance is an illusion, that the laws of chance predict that some players are going to be up, some down, and some normal when you choose any subset of 50-60 at bats out of his total for the season. So the fact that a player raised his game in the 50-60 at bats that fit the late-inning-close-game definition probably means he was just lucky.

Consequently, we give you the option to use the clutch ratings or to turn them off. If you use them, batters and pitchers with better-than-normal clutch and jam ratings will be a little better than usual in the late innings of close games. But this isn't a strong factor in the design of the game, so we recommend that you avoid placing a lot of weight on these ratings when making your decisions. It's rarely a good idea to use a weaker player over a better one just because the weaker player may have a better clutch or jam rating.