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jdw · 09-13-2021, 10:11 PM

Just for clarity, here's another example of why it would be interesting if Garlon has updated thoughts on the Guide.

Guide:

Base Fielding Ratings On: Entire Career

Newer Post:

Suggestion for historical fielding ratings

For a career league I think 3yr fielding is the best option. Players will move to new positions as they really did if you use that. With career fielding the player ratings will be the same each season and they will have eligibility at every position they should be eligible to play. With career fielding though there will probably me more of a premium on finding true CF and SS. For example, Andre Dawson came up during testing and if you use career fielding he will import with his career ratings as a RF, but he will have eligibility as a CF. However, the positional ratings for RF are lower than CF so if you use him as CF he will not be very good there. If you use 3yr though he will be able to play CF properly during the seasons he played there.

That's a super interesting comment from Garlon, and exactly the thing I've thought about in the 70s/80s. Dawson moved.

Pete Rose is another example. I would starting various seasons between 1972-1982 depending on team. In the case of the Reds it would be 1972 post-Morgan trade. Rose is well removed from the 2B years, a season removed from RF, just starting his LF run, and then moved to 3B in 1975 and 1B in 1979. I wouldn't want to see him playing 2B at all, either simming the Reds or running another team like the Dodgers. If I felt like simming the Whitey Cardinals starting is say 1981, I wouldn't even want to see Rose popping up at 3B anymore. :-)

So given his efforts helping OOTP Dev with the historical model, it would be interesting to know if the new version has caused him to change some of his settings.

09-13-2021, 10:11 PM	#7
jdw All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1,161	Just for clarity, here's another example of why it would be interesting if Garlon has updated thoughts on the Guide. Guide: Base Fielding Ratings On: Entire Career Newer Post: Suggestion for historical fielding ratings For a career league I think 3yr fielding is the best option. Players will move to new positions as they really did if you use that. With career fielding the player ratings will be the same each season and they will have eligibility at every position they should be eligible to play. With career fielding though there will probably me more of a premium on finding true CF and SS. For example, Andre Dawson came up during testing and if you use career fielding he will import with his career ratings as a RF, but he will have eligibility as a CF. However, the positional ratings for RF are lower than CF so if you use him as CF he will not be very good there. If you use 3yr though he will be able to play CF properly during the seasons he played there. That's a super interesting comment from Garlon, and exactly the thing I've thought about in the 70s/80s. Dawson moved. Pete Rose is another example. I would starting various seasons between 1972-1982 depending on team. In the case of the Reds it would be 1972 post-Morgan trade. Rose is well removed from the 2B years, a season removed from RF, just starting his LF run, and then moved to 3B in 1975 and 1B in 1979. I wouldn't want to see him playing 2B at all, either simming the Reds or running another team like the Dodgers. If I felt like simming the Whitey Cardinals starting is say 1981, I wouldn't even want to see Rose popping up at 3B anymore. :-) So given his efforts helping OOTP Dev with the historical model, it would be interesting to know if the new version has caused him to change some of his settings.