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Originally Posted by actionjackson
Go to OOTP Menu > Game Setup > League Setup > Historical. There, under the heading of "Historical Progressing Options", you'll find a little tiny nondescript box after the expansion draft settings and before the auto adjust league strategy/retire according to history/recalc etc called Base roles/positions on. The default is real life stats, while the alternative setting is AI evaluation. Interestingly, the example cited in the manual is Dennis Eckersley. With real life stats checked I think (SteveP please correct if wrong) Dennis Eckersley will shift to the bullpen when he did IRL. Whereas I think his role could be at the mercy of the AI's evaluation abilities which might be not be a bad thing.
Both settings could have pluses and minuses. The real life stats setting is probably part of your problem now that I think of it because e.g. Craig Biggio will start as a C (1988 - 1991), then go to 2B (1992 - 2002), then CF (2003), LF (2004), and finally back in to 2B to finish up his career (2005 - 2007) when he did IRL. First off what a team player. Secondly, that's a lot of movement all over the diamond. The AI evaluation setting might look at him and say "Geez, he'd make a decent 2B" and just send him out there. Like I said SteveP and others know better than me on this, but that's my interpretation. Hope this helps!  |
I do belive you are right in how that setting works. I did eye it when I set up my league. In the case of Guidry (low initial stamina) and Eckersly (high initial stamina), is that is recalc is off, they will have their low and high staminas forever(more or less). If I have recalc on, then they will progres to their roles as in real life.
I think recalc is the way I want to run this league, but it I
really want the potentials to be for their entire career. If that could be fixed I think I would be pleased (not that I wouldn't find something that bugged me), but that one is a biggie!
