I agree wholeheartedly with rpriske - no stats are meaningless. Why saves and ERA are weighted so heavily is debatable, but every stat has a purpose. You can't just look at ERA to determine the quality of a pitcher, but you also can't look solely at WHIP or FIP or WAR. No single stat gives you a be-all and end-all evaluation of a player. I realize the faults of ERA, but I still occasionally use it
in conjuction with other stats to help make a decision on a pitcher. It should never have as much weight as it currently does, but that doesn't make it entirely meaningless.
The game also can't really "move away" from those stats until the MLB does. You pick up new players every year who are nothing more than casual baseball fans, and if they come into OOTP expecting to see RBIs and ERAs playing a prominent role, they're going to be lost if the game defaults to the sabermetric stats.
This actually leads me to another suggestion: why can't we change what stats we see on the widgets in-game? Not sure how difficult it might be to code, but it'd be pretty awesome to be able to customize the Batter Info and Pitcher Info boxes to contain whatever stats you care about.
Also,
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Originally Posted by txranger
The game creates some shading layers on the jerseys that don't seem to be needed any longer... Primarily I'm speaking of the button down placket shadow... This layer appears on custom pullover jerseys that are created and distorts the logos or lettering... With the advances in the cap and jersey templates over the years by the talented folks who created them, these layers created by the game itself aren't required anymore...
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Seconded. This is a big one for graphics makers.