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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
The play-by-play text provides a lot of good context to indicate when a great defensive play has been made or when a player should have made a play but was hampered by poor range or other factors. It will often mention this explicitly. I've always relied on those indicators, and when they're combined with the 3D animation, you get an even better sense of how players are impacting the game defensively.
On a macro level, as you manage enough games where the same team is involved, you'll clearly see the overall impact of its defensive strengths and weaknesses and how its players defensive ratings are affecting play results. When you see those same two middle infielders keep turning double plays, or that same left fielder failing to throw out runners at the plate or make throws that are offline, it becomes obvious.
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Reading all these post makes me yearn for the good ole days of me playing year after year of a career. Definitely going back to what back OOTP was made for when new edition comes out. I also played out every game too. Been a baseball junkie since 1972 at 12 years old. Might can tell from my Bill Melton card