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GoCanes · 02-01-2010, 06:01 AM

Sorry if this has already been said and I missed it, but I would like to have potentials for ALL game ratings,,,big example would be base stealing. If you do a historical league without recal, whatever rating(s) a player gets during his initial import is what he pretty much has for the rest of his career. This is not very realistic, as some guys don't steal much their 1st few years, but do later in their career, while others steal less as their careers go along.

Also would like a rating for players possibly learning new positions as their careers go along. For historical leagues, if a player plays the same position(s) throughout their career, their potentials in this would be very low, but someone like Craig Biggio who ended up being a full time starter at 3 very different positions through his career would have a very high rating. This could even be broken down via position, so Biggio would be imported as a catcher, but have high potentials ratings at 2B and CF and Ernie Banks would import as a SS with a high potential rating at 1B. This would be cool in ficitional leagues too, where a player comes in as say a SS with a high potential rating at CF. You already have a pretty good young SS, but your CF is in the last year(s) of his contract and is on the down side of his career with very little future talent in the farm system at CF. You can then have your SS with a high potential is CF either go down to the farm for a year or so to learn CF, or even play as your backup CF and SS splitting time with your current CF as a starter improving his ability at CF or even just put him in CF fulltime and he will improve as the season(s) go along, but you will have to suffer a little in the field while he learns the position (basically what Biggio did both times).

02-01-2010, 06:01 AM	#532
GoCanes Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 58	Sorry if this has already been said and I missed it, but I would like to have potentials for ALL game ratings,,,big example would be base stealing. If you do a historical league without recal, whatever rating(s) a player gets during his initial import is what he pretty much has for the rest of his career. This is not very realistic, as some guys don't steal much their 1st few years, but do later in their career, while others steal less as their careers go along. Also would like a rating for players possibly learning new positions as their careers go along. For historical leagues, if a player plays the same position(s) throughout their career, their potentials in this would be very low, but someone like Craig Biggio who ended up being a full time starter at 3 very different positions through his career would have a very high rating. This could even be broken down via position, so Biggio would be imported as a catcher, but have high potentials ratings at 2B and CF and Ernie Banks would import as a SS with a high potential rating at 1B. This would be cool in ficitional leagues too, where a player comes in as say a SS with a high potential rating at CF. You already have a pretty good young SS, but your CF is in the last year(s) of his contract and is on the down side of his career with very little future talent in the farm system at CF. You can then have your SS with a high potential is CF either go down to the farm for a year or so to learn CF, or even play as your backup CF and SS splitting time with your current CF as a starter improving his ability at CF or even just put him in CF fulltime and he will improve as the season(s) go along, but you will have to suffer a little in the field while he learns the position (basically what Biggio did both times).