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It's really, really simple - a quick and dirty estimate. Well, I hope darkhorse (the true hero of historical simming!) won't mind me dishing it out, but IIRC it's as simple as subtracting 88 from BP's rate stats and multiplying the remainder by 4.
For example, Andruw Jones has a career rate of 110, so -88, making 22. Multipy 22 by 4 and you get 88. Bernie Williams has a rate of 98, which would be a 40, but then he hasn't broken 92 (or 16) for 3 seasons, so I'd take it down a few points.
Obviously, you need to weight it in your own opinion. Jeter had an excellent year last year, worth something like 56 by this method, but he's only breached 25 once before.
It's still very subjective, and it does result in far fewer 10s (and far more bad defensive players) than subjective reasoning. I like that though, and I built my file around recreating 'proper' numbers with that in mind. Then again, I preferred to have a logical base to work from and adjust for there. I didn't really have the capacity to think about whether Ken Boyer was a better fielder than George Scott: for OOTP, the problem was not just judging who was better, but by 'how much' they were better.
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