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Originally Posted by David Watts
I understand a guy like Khalil Greene could probably move over and play 2B with less than a hiccup, so it shouldn't be that big a deal if I see him manning 2B in my random debut league. Problem is, Greene isn't rated to play 2B and OOTP is a game that depends on ratings to dictate a players performance. After one game, Greene gets a RED 1 rating at 2B. I don't know what the solution is, but I really think the game should value defense more, especially at SS, 2B, CF and C. In my other thread I talked about Danny Meyer getting starts at SS. I did learn after posting that Meyer actually had infield ratings to play 2B and 3B. OOTP was ignoring Meyer's rating at 2B. It was also ignoring the fact that the guy it was starting at 2B had an actual rating to play SS. So you end up with a team fielding Johnny Dung Beetle at the most important position and more than likely at the end of the year Meyer has a .710 fielding percentage with 56 error in 45 games. 
To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of a historical game randomly assigning ratings to guys at positions they didn't play in real life. That to me is more of a fictional game type of thing. In the above example the team with Greene had other options on the roster to backup Brandon Phillips at 2B and it's not like Greene was ever a wizard at the plate But, I am using a combo of 5 year recalc and development, so that very well could be why Greene receives the red 1 after playing a game at 2B. |
A propos of nothing, since we use very different setups (I use no recalc and bump tcr way up) but Meyer was my backup SS for years and years and got his fair share of starts as he developped as a very surehanded SS with no bat. Just found it funny.