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Originally Posted by LansdowneSt
Keep in mind that absent recalc, Ruth would never have become a hitter, Phil Niekro forever a reliever, etc. And if you have minors on versus their MLB debut year, Chili Davis is a catcher, Orel Hershiser is forever a reliever. Whatever they were at the start of the sim, they grow from there as whatever they were at that time. So, it can be a very different way to play a "What If" scenario. Also, players may or may not become great/scrubs according to history. The entirety of their path is as if they are fictional players with historical snapshot starting points.
I'm also not sure of the effect of changing this mid sim as the db loads at league creation.
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Right. Play the game your own way. In this particular case it looks to me like Johnny Mostil was a guy who was used very, very sparingly as a 2B very early in his career and then never again. I'm reminded of how, say, Gary Gaetti was used to fill in at short and second very early on. If you decide that in your universe Gary Gaetti is going to be your starting shortstop and you have 3 year recalc on... well, I feel like the issue stems from using Gaetti ahistorically, not that he's suddenly unable to play a position he stopped playing IRL.
I keep going back to the old dodge of "this is why I only play with fictional players" but if I'm being honest, this is part of why. If my starting shortstop Jeremy Taylor (fake player) is 26 and already not very good at short and I move him off to RF, I'm doing so because I'm able to assess the player as a whole. With actual historical players doing that is going to be some combination of living and dying with recalc, using the development engine, and going into the editor to give a guy ratings you think he "should" have. The game will let you do any of this (of course you need to turn off fielding recalc if you're going to do the last 2 things) but to me it just feels more "realistic" to have some guys rated across several positions they could potentially play and then pushing them down the defensive spectrum as they age out of the harder ones.