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Originally Posted by Garlon
For Banks, his primary infield position based on innings played is slightly more at 1B than SS + 3B combined, so the game sees him as 1B in this instance.
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So there's basically a hard check as to whether he's a 1B or a 2B/3B/SS? ok, that makes sense. Kind of harsh, but it's at least an understandable rationale.
But if that's the case, when you set fielding ratings to "entire career" then it should probably not assign fielding experience to Banks for the SS position.
Because that's what it does. When I started a test sim in 1962 with career fielding stats, I zero'd out Banks' SS experience because I didn't want the AI to try playing him at SS. And it didn't.
But when the recalc hit for 1963, it gave him 200 fielding experience at SS again (despite the poor ratings). That's when I started investigating him in particular.
I guess my issue with this is that, in the pre-DH era, many many players gravitated from defensive positions to 1B at the end of their careers. Banks, Aaron, Killebrew, Mantle, Stargell, McCovey, Rose, Bench, Cedeno, Staub, etc.
1B was the DH position before there was a DH. But players in the DH era won't get the same positional downgrade to their career fielding ratings as historical players before it.
To be honest, if there is a 1B vs 2B/3B/SS decision to be made for a player's career, I'd suggest that 1B innings at age 35 and up are just ignored for that particular decision. In the modern era, those guys would go to DH anyway.