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Originally Posted by arod23
Since Ruth entered MLB as a pitcher, he imports that way, so many historical sims have Ruth performing poorly as a hitter. If you use Lahman to import, he will be terrible (as will most rookies). If you import later (1920+) after his pitching years are done, he will come in as a hitter with great ratings.
Ankit's CareerAvg DB takes care of that problem because players import in the first year of significant play rather than their first year when they typically have few ABs or IPs. This gives more realistic ratings, not to mention the career average feature improves historical sims because talent ratings are more accurate. OOTP doesn't import pitcher/hitters well, so Ankit's DB also splits Ruth into Babe the hitter and George the pitcher.
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I'm well aware of that, and usually use Ankit's database which imports him as George Ruth pitcher, and Babe Ruth, hitter.
I've just never had good luck on the development of Ruth.