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arod23 · 07-19-2006, 10:50 PM

*NEW to v.2.0*

- Deleted fielding data (eligibility) for positions where players did not play a significant portion of games

- Deleted UA/PL/FL league players who did not have significant playing time in other leagues
These leagues are considered by experts to be below “major” league levels. If included, these players influence the outcome of league performance in subsequent seasons.

- Created OF eligibility in other OF positions
Based on each player's primary OF position, we adjusted the games played in the other OF positions so OOTP would assign ratings for all OF positions. The reason is that OOTP only gives fielding ratings in OF positions in which a player actually played. So, OOTPs AI will not give a RF player eligibility in LF if they do not have any ratings. This creates situations where a team may have no eligible LF on a team but actually have six OFers. And, the AI may even insert a player that has no OF experience. Realistically, OFers should be able to play in any field, although their effectiveness may not warrant such a move. So, CF now get rated in the corners at roughly half their effectiveness. Corner OFers get rated in the opposite corner at half effectiveness and in CF at 25% effectiveness. Due to the way the two fielding files are setup, this was only done for 1871-1995 OF positions. So, players post-1995 will only have OF eligibility where they have accumulated actual stats. (We are working on ways to address this).

- Fixed zero "errors" in pitching and batting files.
We added 1 BB or 1 SO to a few players who had zeros for BB and SO data, typically players with little playing time. When BB and SO data is zero, OOTP's ratings for Gap, Eye, Ks, Control are out of line with other players (likely due to some ratio equation which doesn't like zero in the numerator or denominator). For example, zero strikeouts in 600 at bats is impressive and should be rewarded with a great K rating, but zero strikeouts in 5 at bats doesn't really warrant the same kind of rating. Also, players with triples and no doubles caused strange gap ratings, so in those cases we gave players one double. Very few players were affected.

- Fixed leap year birthdays.
In some cases, leap year birthdays (February 29th) cause an import error. These birthdays were changed to February 28.

The following files are also included for user preference:

- FieldingOF-actualOF.csv
This is the original OF file based on the actual historical OF data and does not include players having eligibility in other OF positions.

- Master-NoNicknames.csv
Copy of the master file with nicknames removed. Catobase for OOTP6.5 does not do well with nicknames.

07-19-2006, 10:50 PM	#15
arod23 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 378	Version 2.0 Available NEW to v.2.0 - Deleted fielding data (eligibility) for positions where players did not play a significant portion of games - Deleted UA/PL/FL league players who did not have significant playing time in other leagues These leagues are considered by experts to be below “major” league levels. If included, these players influence the outcome of league performance in subsequent seasons. - Created OF eligibility in other OF positions Based on each player's primary OF position, we adjusted the games played in the other OF positions so OOTP would assign ratings for all OF positions. The reason is that OOTP only gives fielding ratings in OF positions in which a player actually played. So, OOTPs AI will not give a RF player eligibility in LF if they do not have any ratings. This creates situations where a team may have no eligible LF on a team but actually have six OFers. And, the AI may even insert a player that has no OF experience. Realistically, OFers should be able to play in any field, although their effectiveness may not warrant such a move. So, CF now get rated in the corners at roughly half their effectiveness. Corner OFers get rated in the opposite corner at half effectiveness and in CF at 25% effectiveness. Due to the way the two fielding files are setup, this was only done for 1871-1995 OF positions. So, players post-1995 will only have OF eligibility where they have accumulated actual stats. (We are working on ways to address this). - Fixed zero "errors" in pitching and batting files. We added 1 BB or 1 SO to a few players who had zeros for BB and SO data, typically players with little playing time. When BB and SO data is zero, OOTP's ratings for Gap, Eye, Ks, Control are out of line with other players (likely due to some ratio equation which doesn't like zero in the numerator or denominator). For example, zero strikeouts in 600 at bats is impressive and should be rewarded with a great K rating, but zero strikeouts in 5 at bats doesn't really warrant the same kind of rating. Also, players with triples and no doubles caused strange gap ratings, so in those cases we gave players one double. Very few players were affected. - Fixed leap year birthdays. In some cases, leap year birthdays (February 29th) cause an import error. These birthdays were changed to February 28. The following files are also included for user preference: - FieldingOF-actualOF.csv This is the original OF file based on the actual historical OF data and does not include players having eligibility in other OF positions. - Master-NoNicknames.csv Copy of the master file with nicknames removed. Catobase for OOTP6.5 does not do well with nicknames.