How Do Adjust League Fielding Averages?

[Eugene Church]

I put a new year in for my league stats this season and recalculated.
I want 1958 stats for my league.
The league fielding average is .985 for my new season... that's too high... I would like to lower the league FA to .978.

League FA in MLB in 1958 was about .978.

How do I lower the fielding average in OOTP?... I need to increase the number of errors to lower it..

In the past I did it trial-and-error using the Position Modifers... I would just increase each position by 10% until I got it down to .978.

This seemed to work overall for the league, but I noticed my center fielders made more errors than they usually make...center fielders usually have better FA than the left fielders and right fielders.

Can anyone help me regarding this?

I am please with all the other stats for my league... team batting averages... team ERAs are fine... individual stats look normal, too.

[Brad K]

Are you saying OOTP has incorrect data for fielding percentage?

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Brad K

Are you saying OOTP has incorrect data for fielding percentage?

I am trying to play the 1958 season as the base for my stats... league fielding percentage is .985.... it should be .978 for 1958.

My league is fictional... over the 79 seasons I have changed the Position Modifiers by increasing the numbers for each posititon to lower the league fielding average.
It has been stable for many seasons, except for this year when I recalculated and used 1958 as the base year.

I think this is the problem... I think I need to put all the position modifiers at 1.000 for range and 1.000 for each position.

Anyone have any ideas on what I should do?

[Eugene Church]

Here is a screenshot of the Position Modifiers.

If I change these numbers to 1.000 in Range... and 1.000 for each position, will I then get stats for the 1958 season in MLB?
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[Eugene Church]

What happens if I choose "Restore Default" Settings?

[snepp]

I'm assuming that restore defaults will set them to whatever figures are in the historical modifiers file for 1958.

Are you working off a backup copy? Best advice I can give is to make a backup, load it up, try the default settings (do you make use of recalc?) and let it sim out the year to see what happens. If it works, great, dump those figures into your permanent save.

[Brad K]

I see BBRef says historical fielding percentage is .978. Where in the game does it say league fielding percentage is .985?

I suppose restore defaults might work, depending on what else you have changed.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Brad K

I see BBRef says historical fielding percentage is .978. Where in the game does it say league fielding percentage is .985?

I suppose restore defaults might work, depending on what else you have changed.

The team fielding reports show the fielding percentage.

Team Reports and Info > League Reports > Fielding Report

[Eugene Church]

Thanks to both of you for your help and advice.

I'll see if "Restore Defaults" will fix it.

[Garlon]

Maybe the game did not bring in the 1958 FLD when you selected that season for your league. What year is the actual year of your league? Maybe the FLD stayed as that season.

I do not suggest messing with the Range values.

If you want to bring down the FLD percentage, you need to actually consider the Error rate.

In this instance you are getting .985 FLD, which is actually 15 errors per 1000 total chances.

You want a .978 FLD, which is 22 errors per 1000 total chances.

22/15 = 1.467.

I would try multiplying the error modifier for each position by 1.467.

Take the value currently in there and multiply by 1.467.

For example, RF is currently 0.919. Take 0.919 * 1.467 = 1.348 That is the new Error modifier for RF. Do the same for every position.

[Brad K]

Why would the game not bring in 1958 fielding? If it didn't isn't it a lot easier to use the restore defaults feature than to edit all the individual error rates?

Concerning multiplying by 1.467, how do you know the error rates are off by the same amount for every position?

[Eugene Church]

What Garlon suggested I have been doing over the years and it has worked well until this year when I selected stats for the 1958 season.

I say my system has worked well because the league fielding percentage remained steady around .975 to .978... the only problem is my first baseman and center fielders have poorer fielding averages than they should.

I have learned to just live with this.

However, I don't want league fielding average to be .985... that is way too high for the 1950s-style baseball I prefer.

I guess I will just do what Garlon suggested and apply his formula to increase the number of errors in the league... I am not good with computers, but I can do this.

I will let you know what happens.

[Eugene Church]

Thanks to all of you replied... much appreciate it.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Brad K

Why would the game not bring in 1958 fielding? If it didn't isn't it a lot easier to use the restore defaults feature than to edit all the individual error rates?

Concerning multiplying by 1.467, how do you know the error rates are off by the same amount for every position?

I think you are right... my first basemen and center fielders make more errors that they should... my left fielders and right fielders have better FAs than my center fielders.

As I said, as long as the league FA is around .978, I will be happy... I can live with the first basemen and center fielders doing poorer than they should.

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

I think you are right... my first basemen and center fielders make more errors that they should... my left fielders and right fielders have better FAs than my center fielders.

As I said, as long as the league FA is around .978, I will be happy... I can live with the first basemen and center fielders doing poorer than they should.

Seens to me the positions being off even though overall errors are right might affect run production. Is the average error by a 3B worth the same number of bases as the average error by a CF? I don't know but it seems they might be different.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Thanks to both of you for your help and advice.

I'll see if "Restore Defaults" will fix it.

I think that’s going to do the opposite. LTMs like the ones you see are determined by a 3 year sim the game does on the night before opening day. Setting them to 1.000, which is I think what that button will do, will have the opposite effect.

What you’d want to do is pull those error numbers lower but man that is walking a tightrope. You can do the math of 978/985 = what you’d want to multiply those numbers by but I’d make a copy of that save and run it to see if the numbers come out okay.

[Brad K]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

I think that’s going to do the opposite. LTMs like the ones you see are determined by a 3 year sim the game does on the night before opening day. Setting them to 1.000, which is I think what that button will do, will have the opposite effect.

What you’d want to do is pull those error numbers lower but man that is walking a tightrope. You can do the math of 978/985 = what you’d want to multiply those numbers by but I’d make a copy of that save and run it to see if the numbers come out okay.

Syd is correct. Set defaults makes them all 1.000. Now why would that be the default? Shouldn't default be the historical LTM for that year? And the description for the button should be "Set all to 1.000" not set to defaults. Because how does someone know what defaults are?