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Originally Posted by gehrig38
Glad to hear that about catching ability, you don't have to tell me it's real, I know it. I talked with umpires about it, and they absolutely had their favorites (Tek, Dalton, Pratt) and the ones they hated (believe it or not Charles johnson) because they made the game way easier, or far harder, to call balls and strikes.
The pace is my desire to get 'more' out of the game, which I won't until FA and arbitration and what not.
In looking at what I've done so far, I am feeling like I'm too wordy, walls of text, which is no surprise because I am too wordy and talk too much in real life.
As far as your numbers on D go, I guess what I am asking is context. You say 10 runs is supposed to equal a Win? I am asking for comps, what's a good/great/bad set of numbers for that stat so I can know at a glance if the player is good, bad or great?
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Obviously a + zone rating (ZR) is good. In my 25-year fictional league there are about 15 instances when a player has a +20 ZR in a seasons. So that is roughly the maximun. I think that a +10 ZR is often enough to be the seasonal best player at a position.
The advantage of ZR in OOTP is that it can easily be combined with offensive VORP:
VORP+ZR= player overall value
Divide that by ten and you have WAR (wins above replacement)
For example you want your team to win 100 games, you need 55 WARs, because the replacement level is 45 wins (the number of games that a random bunch of AAAers are supposed to win at the MLB level). You have 25 players on your roster in order to compile 55 WARs, each player would have to contribute a little over 2 WARs or 20 VORP. So a great fielder with a +10 ZR (=VORP) has already half done half his duty by his fielding alone.
On the other hand a bad fielder with a -10 ZR, has to carry quite a good bat to be a worthwhile player.