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Originally Posted by BigCity
But when you import a player, your importing his "career stats" or his "remaining career stats" in terms of talent. If you import him on a "career year", his following years will certainly be less impressive as hs "talent ratings" will direct his OOTP career. If your going to do this "correctly" you need to do the same for his fielding stats - not just try for 100% accuracy for the year you import him from. Again, this is a "baseball simulation", not a "replay simulation".
To better express what I mean, take Ozzie in his best year and move him to the worst team in the league - then recalculate his value using James' formulas. Besides the fact that excercise doesn't make a lot of sense since Ozzie didn't PLAY for that team, his rating will change drastically. To me, this confirms the "snapshot" in time of one season should NOT be replicated in OOTP since it will be the ONLY point in time the player's ratings will be accurate anyway - and could cause significant variation if the player gets traded.
Personally, I think Markus' approach is a decent compromise.
Having said that, I don't know why someone here got a "6" for Ozzie on import. I tried 3 different scenarios and never got anything near that low. I tried again importing through the 60s for Brooks Robinson and always got realistic results.
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All I'm saying is that you'll get better results if you know what the G/F ratios of the teams he played for are. Something along the lines of "Aloysius Smith, a shortstop, played most of his career behind flyball staffs, so OOTP will rate him with a 80 in range instead of the 70 his raw numbers would imply." Nothing radical, just a tweak to make things a little more realistic for the historical simmers.
Maybe the effort needed to code the import algorithm is more difficult than it's worth for the benefits, but maybe not.