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Originally Posted by justpatrick
Now donīt get me started on the atrociously inaccurate fielding ratings, those I have a real problem with.
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In OOTP6.5 I am fairly certain that there was no importing of range for real players. IT just assigned a random range factor. The fielding percentage would import (though anything below .930 would be bumped up to .930, so you would have to manually change real fielding %'s below .930 to their correct %). I could import Ozzie Smith one time with a 36 range factor and do it again and it would import at 89.
I think real baseball is still struggling to fully understand defensive metric, though it gets better every year.
I agree that the defensive ratings can be frustrating. I also think the defensive ratings across era's becomes really troublesome. When all SS's fielding % on average in .943 70 years ago and .972 10 years ago, how do you "normalize" those players to a current era while still being true to the players performance.
It took me about 10 years to finally come to way of calculating range for players that got me close enough for comfort.