Best rated position vs main position

[SoCal Doug]

The manual mentioned that a player's main listed position may not be his highest rated position.

I'm not sure that it was explained sufficiently and I'm unclear whether this has any impact on the game or not.

In other words, let's say a player is rated the same at two positions, will he play equally well at either position or will he have a slight edge at the main position the game created him under and lists him as to start?

Of course I ask this because I found someone in the draft who was better rated at a secondary position and drafted him to use at that position. But I'm worried that it would have been better to have drafted someone with the same defensive rating but who had that position as his main position.

SoCal Doug

[SteveP]

Originally Posted by SoCal Doug

The manual mentioned that a player's main listed position may not be his highest rated position.

When you look at a team's roster, including your own unless you have made changes manually, you will often see a player being listed at a position that is not the one for which he has the highest position rating. For example, a player could have a higher position rating at 2B, but is listed as a SS. This listing is something the AI does, based on its evaluation of where it wants this player to primarily play. However, it could be a source of confusion for gamers new to OOTP. So the manual is just saying that it's OK -- you aren't looking at a bug.

I don't think there is anything more to what it says in the manual than that. However, it's important to know that with default settings, the overall rating given to a player will be based on his listed position, not his highest rated position. It's possible that if you manually change his listed position, you will find him getting a different overall rating.

Hope that helps.

[Syd Thrift]

When you look at it, it makes sense to do it this way. If you're running the Yankees and you have Jeter and bring in A-Rod, you may have 2 shortstops but in the end one of those guys is going to need to play third. It then makes no real sense to list A-Rod as a shortstop any longer, particularly after he begins to "forget" how to play short and gets more proficiency at third. But from Day One, it's at once more helpful to look at the Yankees and see A-Rod at 3B instead of SS instead of searching through the team's games fielded by position to figure that out.

I would like to see more designations available, if only for human managers. Say, OF if you're really using a guy at all the OF positions, IF for a utility infielder, 4C for a guy who plays at the corner OF positions, 1st, and 3rd, 1B/DH or 1D, a position of PH, that sort of thing. It would also make roster construction a little bit easier.