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Originally Posted by Metsui
Ankit, thanks for the great work!
Couple of questions:
1) I'm doing a one year historical sim with some friends and we drafted 20 teams of historical players from the beginning of baseball to 2004. We chose to use the 3rd best season based on the salaries assigned to the players at What If Sports.
I've been using the Lahman 5.2 and importing each player manually and by the corresponding season.
I'm a newbie to OOTP so I don't know exactly how everything is generated in terms of ratings of players from different eras so after reading point 15 I was a bit discouraged. Do you see any major problem with the results of our sim based on the current method? Should we switch over to your database?
2) How does OOTP generate fielding ratings? During the importing of the players, I've seen some pretty low defensive ratings for highly regarded defensive players. Will your 5.2 version be more accurate?
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1. A Normalized DB is the best way to go for this because Deadball Batters will not be good when grouped with later year players and vice-versa for pitchers. My DB includes a Normalized pitchers and I am working on a normalized hitters file. I did a Normalized DB but I don't like it anymore as I have found a better methodology.
2. Arm Strength and Range are generated randomly. They are not at all based on any DB. Same goes for PB, I think they default to 4 for all catchers. Fielding percentage is imported from the DB and uses the percentage for a player for the year he was imported in. My DB uses a career average so it won't matter which year you import a player in. Same goes for the position a player can play at. Example, if Jimmy Foxx is imported in his rookie season using the Lahman, he will import as a Catcher only. If you import his using my DB, he will be a First Baseman with the ability to play C.