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This approach does not work, though. All guys 125 years ago are bad fielders compared to today, yes, but they were not all bad compared to each other. Some were good, most average, and a few were bad then, too. To lump all of them into the category of "bad" with poor ratings means that if you played a replay of the 1885 season, for instance, they will all be about equally bad. That obviously was not true in 1885, any more than it would be today.
As I said in the first post, the last version of the game I bought, 12, did not rate players this way. That version had players with an error rating compared to each other, not compared to an absolute standard.
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