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There are a lot of great suggestions here, and I would welcome amy of them. I'd like to add a couple of suggestions for historical simmers, such as myself.
1. I'd like to see FA reworked so that a player's fielding % is based on a 1-5 rating based on other players at the same position (like range). As it currently is, a player is 'stuck' with the same FA his entire career. There isn't any reason a players FA wouldn't improve through practice, or if he got a bigger glove, or better groundskeepers that eliminated most of those wierd hops. This allows for FA to be determined by the era, just like BA or HR's.
2. I'd also like to see historical players drafted at age 19 instead of the first year they appear in the majors. This allows a 19 year old to get 3 or 4 minor league years, and make his major league debut after spending whatever the average amount of time in the minors is. (Of course there would be the rare player ready for the majors straight out of high school, as well as the guy that was able to hang around long enough to make his debut at age 28.) This shouldn't be too difficult to implement, players birthdates as well as their debut dates are both contained in Lahman's and Ankit's DB's. This should also make players ages and career lengths more realistic.
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