A numeric analysis of Internationals Across Worlds

Since I've had so little to report on NQII's International signings, I decided to look at the signings in the last 3 completed seasons in some of my other leagues to compare. I looked at the number of signings For $8 million or more, and the projected overalls of those signings. I'm not less than 15 million or so on Advance Scouting in any of my worlds, so my OVR's should be reasonably accurate. Seasons listed 1-2-3 are the last 3 completed seasons of each World. And the OVR's listed track from highest signed dollar guy (usually averages about 17.5 million) to 8 million (technically, 7.9 million). BTW, every one of the signings of <70 OVR are Relief Pitchers or Catchers, as best I remember.


World: Fingers
1. 9 signings: 90 79 87 81 74 76 71 75.
2. 12 signings: 90 78 78 84 71 84 79 85 79 69 73 65.
3. 7 signings: 88 89 74 81 82 82 84 68.

World: 7MickeyMantle7
1. 16 signings: 87 83 92 77 74 75 71 77 81 69 70 81 73 80 83 64.
2. 12 signings: 85 81 85 74 74 86 80 81 81 75 75 76.
3. 11 signings: 94 84 77 84 81 66 69 81 73 77 84.

World: Clemens*
1. 12 signings: 82 79 74 75 77 81 73 86 77 69 79 79.
2. 15 signings: 69 82 82 72 80 80 75 82 79 73 71 68 76 73 71.
3. 7 signings: 91 79 79 82 67 70 75.

World: Cochrane (The only public World I'm in. Or ever will be, I assure you.)
1. 10 signings: 97 93 85 76 92 77 76 77 81 78.
2. 7 signings: 77 78 83 86 84 91 81.
3. 4 signings: 88 79 78 76.


And now for the big enchilada:

No Quitters II:
1. 5 signings: 94 74 81 77 75.
2. 3 signings: 88 60 74.
3. 1 signing: 89.

Folks, we are getting seriously hosed on the International signing department. 7MM7 signed more people, with higher ratings, in the the season just completed than NQ II has in its entire existence, including the season in progress.

I do find interesting the fact that generally speaking, the International signings do "follow the money". The best guys go for top dollar. But, notice that no league has ever put up even 16 signings (half a World's teams) at 8 million in a single season. There really isn't that much international talent out there, and a whole lot of dollars chasing it, making it a very expensive proposition to improve one's team. Plus it has to "mature" to have ML use at some future point. The fact that our group of owners isn't pursuing the INT's is partly a function of lack of generated talrnt on our World's "Internationals Market", but I also think we have an exceptionally cagey group of Owners who just don't waste money.