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Originally Posted by Fyrestorm3
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.
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Seconded. This is a big one for graphics makers.
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i can see the reasons why, and the game has to cater to the lowest common denominator. and i agree all Stats have a use, but like most stats in RL it is the misuse of stats that is the problem (like number of Saves driving the salaries).
sorry for being a Geek. i'll go back to looking at Jerseys. :-)
edit: i guess the game has so much flexibility, but stats used, and the way they affect are not one of them, and i sure remember that there will always be limits. the same way as everyone goes along with the limitations of how they see baseball...