Understanding Defense -

[Sandviper23]

As someone new to the OOTP, I'm constantly trying to improve my understand of the game. Besides reading threads in this forum, I also study what choices my opponents are making who are having better success than myself.

One strategy I keep seeing is that they are putting players who have 0 training at positions and it doesn't seem to effect anything.

Example A.) If you play this player at SS during a Tournament, what are you risking?


Same manager put this other player at 3B.


By my noob understanding is if I did this, then I'd have my whole left IF with 0 training and that seems like a disaster but in this 7 game tournament series it seemed to have no consequence for my opponent doing it.

What am I missing?

[ubernoob]

Originally Posted by Sandviper23

As someone new to the OOTP, I'm constantly trying to improve my understand of the game. Besides reading threads in this forum, I also study what choices my opponents are making who are having better success than myself.

One strategy I keep seeing is that they are putting players who have 0 training at positions and it doesn't seem to effect anything.

Example A.) If you play this player at SS during a Tournament, what are you risking?


Same manager put this other player at 3B.


By my noob understanding is if I did this, then I'd have my whole left IF with 0 training and that seems like a disaster but in this 7 game tournament series it seemed to have no consequence for my opponent doing it.

What am I missing?

From what I understand, rating at that position is just a factor of infield ratings * experience at that position.

Someone with those individual skills isn't going to forget how to field because you shifted them from SS to 3B - they just won't perform to the level they would if they had experience at the position.

I could be wrong, but that's just what I've come to understand.

[mitchbaker]

Originally Posted by Sandviper23

in this 7 game tournament series it seemed to have no consequence for my opponent doing it

Did you take a look at the fielding stats of the players in question? Oftentimes, as it is when you're training players up in the main PT mode, their training is reflected in worse fielding stats, but may not always manifest itself in a game-changing error or missed play.

It's a risk to put an untrained player at a position for a tournament, but having their bat in the lineup (or the bat of whoever is in their main position) may be a worthy reward. This is also a less risky move if you load your pitching staff with stuff-heavy and/or flyball pitchers where defense is less crucial.