Suggestion for historical fielding ratings

robc · 03-28-2021, 03:07 PM

When creating a historical league there are 3 options to base a player's fielding ratings:
1) 1 year
2) 3 years
3) entire career

1 and 3 years works well for a single season replay. For a career league(edit: without recalc), using the players entire career is the best choice in my view because that way the player will have the skills they did in real life, but the problem with 3 is that they also get all of their fielding experience right from the start too.

What I would like is when choosing to base fielding on their entire career, their real life career stats would be used to calculate their skill ratings (infield and outfield range, error and arm; turn double plays; catcher ability and arm), but only the positional experience that has already occurred would count. For a rookie, maybe count their first year's experience so they have something.

This method could be added as an additional option when choosing to base the fielding ratings on the player's entire career as some people may wish to continue to use that method.

Short of editing each player after creating a league and each time rookies are imported, there isn't currently any way to achieve this, right?

Also, is there a way for a player to develop their fielding ratings with the development model? I believe the fielding ratings used to be fairly static. With the new coaching system is there any way to improve a player's fielding?

Garlon · 03-28-2021, 05:27 PM

For a career league I think 3yr fielding is the best option. Players will move to new positions as they really did if you use that. With career fielding the player ratings will be the same each season and they will have eligibility at every position they should be eligible to play. With career fielding though there will probably me more of a premium on finding true CF and SS. For example, Andre Dawson came up during testing and if you use career fielding he will import with his career ratings as a RF, but he will have eligibility as a CF. However, the positional ratings for RF are lower than CF so if you use him as CF he will not be very good there. If you use 3yr though he will be able to play CF properly during the seasons he played there.

robc · 03-28-2021, 05:42 PM

Sorry that I wasn't clear but I'm not using recalc. This is a league where after players are imported the player development engine takes over without recalc.

03-28-2021, 03:07 PM	#1
robc Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,095	Suggestion for historical fielding ratings When creating a historical league there are 3 options to base a player's fielding ratings: 1) 1 year 2) 3 years 3) entire career 1 and 3 years works well for a single season replay. For a career league(edit: without recalc), using the players entire career is the best choice in my view because that way the player will have the skills they did in real life, but the problem with 3 is that they also get all of their fielding experience right from the start too. What I would like is when choosing to base fielding on their entire career, their real life career stats would be used to calculate their skill ratings (infield and outfield range, error and arm; turn double plays; catcher ability and arm), but only the positional experience that has already occurred would count. For a rookie, maybe count their first year's experience so they have something. This method could be added as an additional option when choosing to base the fielding ratings on the player's entire career as some people may wish to continue to use that method. Short of editing each player after creating a league and each time rookies are imported, there isn't currently any way to achieve this, right? Also, is there a way for a player to develop their fielding ratings with the development model? I believe the fielding ratings used to be fairly static. With the new coaching system is there any way to improve a player's fielding? Last edited by robc; 03-28-2021 at 05:43 PM.

03-28-2021, 05:27 PM	#2
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,386	For a career league I think 3yr fielding is the best option. Players will move to new positions as they really did if you use that. With career fielding the player ratings will be the same each season and they will have eligibility at every position they should be eligible to play. With career fielding though there will probably me more of a premium on finding true CF and SS. For example, Andre Dawson came up during testing and if you use career fielding he will import with his career ratings as a RF, but he will have eligibility as a CF. However, the positional ratings for RF are lower than CF so if you use him as CF he will not be very good there. If you use 3yr though he will be able to play CF properly during the seasons he played there.

03-28-2021, 05:42 PM	#3
robc Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,095	Sorry that I wasn't clear but I'm not using recalc. This is a league where after players are imported the player development engine takes over without recalc.