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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
Knowing who is un-movable and who isn't is always a challenge. A-Rod only played SS IRL, until he didn't.
I mean, we could always cheat and look at their real career to determine how well they can learn a position. But then it also seems a little unfair that I can train a 22-year-old A-Rod to play 3B, but I can't train him to play 2B. Or that I can't train a 22-year old Jeter because real Jeter didn't want to move.
As Rain King's point, the problem with everything is that we could talk to 20 people who want to play a historical (or random debut) mode, and we'd probably get 50 answers of styles of play that they would like, when players can or can't be trained, which pieces carry over, when ratings can or can't change, etc... We can't please everyone, so we just have to try our best to set up a system that works for most.
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Makes sense. Can't imagine how hard it is to make everyone happy. In a recalc league, even though I use develpment, I would probably fall into the group that has zero interest in seeing Jeter learn to play 3B or 2B. In fact, to start out his career I wouldn't want Rodriguez to be rated to play 3B. If I'm using 3 year recalc with fielding based on 3 years, that's what I want the game to follow.
If playing development only, I would be a lot more open to guys playing wherever the game takes them. Don't play development only often, but when I do, I always base a players fielding ratings on their entire career.
That being said, thanks for the improvements to historical fielding over the last couple versions of the game.