Players who ONLY play centerfield/shortstop

[Garlon]

For historical games I think OOTP tries to give an experience rating to any position a player had at least 5% of their games. There are those players who are only CF though, who I think should automatically receive experience in LF and RF too. A RF should perhaps be automatically eligible in LF too, but a LF who otherwise does not have 5% of their games at RF perhaps should not be eligible to play RF. This may also benefit how the game handles the bench players if they have more position eligibility.

I guess you can use Spring Training to train players at additional positions but I have not tried that.

[Rain King]

Originally Posted by Garlon

For historical games I think OOTP tries to give an experience rating to any position a player had at least 5% of their games. There are those players who are only CF though, who I think should automatically receive experience in LF and RF too. A RF should perhaps be automatically eligible in LF too, but a LF who otherwise does not have 5% of their games at RF perhaps should not be eligible to play RF. This may also benefit how the game handles the bench players if they have more position eligibility.

I guess you can use Spring Training to train players at additional positions but I have not tried that.

This issue is more referring to Fictional players and the AI.

When you have a star player that makes the major leagues at a primary position such as SS or CF, they typically will not have played any other positions along the way. So, will not have experience there.

Then, when their fielding ability wanes the AI does not get them that experience and therefore won't play them anywhere else (even though they likely have the skills to move down the spectrum in some way).

The result is a guy who can still hit (so stays in the lineup) absolutely killing their value with horrible defense at a primary position.

It doesn't happen all the time because they need to be a star from the get-go (otherwise they tend to acquire some experience at other positions naturally in a utility sort of way). But it happens enough to really be annoying to fictional players.