November Meta & True Overall Update: Hitters Close the Gap

November brings our monthly True & Meta Overall tuning, the refresh we committed to back in May to keep both ratings tracking the meta. Since our last tuning, 149 new cards have dropped, every one of them a 99: 67 Finest, 26 Spooky and 22 Postseason among them. With most of the year's big content out, lineups have filled up with Finest and Postseason cards, and the community's tier lists have changed to match. Here's what that did to the ratings. (New to these ratings? Our True Overall and Meta Overall guide covers how they work and every past update.)

• Meta Overall was re-tuned against 186 community tier lists. Starting pitchers came down the most. At the top that's 2 to 5 points: Bob Gibson is still #1 but drops from 127.0 to 124.0, Pedro Martinez goes from 122.4 to 119.0, and Cam Schlittler from 122.7 to 118.4. Hitters moved much less, most by under 2 points, so they climb past a lot of those arms. The Meta Overall top 25 now has 10 hitters, up from 7: Carlos Beltran, Pete Crow-Armstrong and Yordan Alvarez move in, Chipper Jones climbs from #19 to #10, and Elly De La Cruz is up to #3.
• True Overall™, our AI model, was not retrained this month, on purpose. It learns from cards rated under 99, because a 99 is capped and doesn't say how good the card really is. Every new card this month is a 99, so there was nothing new for it to learn, and a retrain would just reshuffle the same data. The new 99s are still rated by October's model, our most accurate version so far.
• The guardrails held. Closers stay below the top starters (the best, Mason Miller, sits at 110.6), and before tuning we screened out a handful of saved lists that weren't rankings at all, like collection trackers, so they couldn't skew the results.

The bottom line: Meta Overall now reflects what people are actually using. Starters had been ranked well ahead of comparable hitters, and the November tier lists pulled that back toward even. Starters still lead the top of the list, and as more cross-position tier lists come in, we'll keep checking that balance.