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Originally Posted by Brad K
I saw a post indicating that when entire career is used long career players with two positions end up mediocre at both. The example was Ernie Banks who didn't have a decent rating at either SS or 1B.
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It's going to be based on how good they were over their entire career. If they were great at a position for only part of their career, then they're probably not going to be rated at that level in OOTP unless they have potential based on peak seasons and they eventually develop into those high ratings.
I think the OP's settings are fine if he wants a historical league that is based on the initial few years of a player's career, plus potentials based on peak seasons, but otherwise ignores real life history.
He's using a 3-year period for fielding and pitching and peak seasons for potentials, but he's not using recalc. OOTP is only using each player's first 3 years of historical stats when creating his initial ratings, including batting, pitching, fielding and stamina. After that, the development engine takes over, and the only thing from the player's real-world performance that will influence things is his potential, which is initially based on his peak seasons but can actually be altered by the development engine.
If that's the intention, that's fine. If he's looking for something different, then he can describe what he's looking for and the rest of us can provide suggestions.