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-What position a player appears at is based on what position they have played the most this year. If they haven't played much this year, we look at some combo of what position they played last year, what position they would be best at, and what position they're listed at.
-Then which player at the position will be on the ballot is some combination of performance, talent level, and popularity. We can't just use simple playing time, since what if your catcher with only 24 ABs was actually the better player, but was hurt for most of the year. We'd be getting complaints about why your better guy didn't make it. And in OOTP 16 we used basically pure talent, but that tended to miss the guys who started hot, or guys playing above their talent levels.
There may be bugs in there (while double checking this I found one case what could have listed a guy at a "less valid" position).
Also keep in mind that just because a guy isn't on the ballot, it doesn't mean he can't make the All-Star game. When we choose which players get named as backups, that is done almost entirely by current stats, so if a guy is missing from the ballot but is putting up a very strong season, he'll likely still be named as a backup.
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