I know a lot of you have been dissatisfied with the way OOTP 5 assigns fielding ratings to players that are imported from Lahman DB 5.0.
I have created a new fielding.csv file which has the career average fielding data for each player. So now, when you import Jimmy Foxx as a rookie, he won't import as a C, but will have ratings for both 1B and 3B. His fielding percentage will be his lifetime career average at that positions as will his other information (Games, Putouts, Assists, Errors, Double Plays, etc.). Some of you may be familiar with my work in this regard as I had put out a similar file for Lahman DB 4.5. This is no different.
I would like to thank Jeff Cato for providing me with SQL queries when I did this for the 4.5 version. Without those queries, this update would not have been possible. I simply had to tweak some things to fit the new DB format. Anyways, thank you very much Jeff.
As for the file (about 665 kb), download it here:
http://www.ap4e.com/CareerAvgFielding.zip
There is only the csv file, overwrite the original one and you are good to go. Give me some feed back on this and spread the word, as quite a few people would like this but may or may not understand what I explained above.
Hope you guys find it as useful as I do...