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Originally Posted by plannine
Each player will perform somewhat like he did during the season. No chance for change. If he leaves baseball (injury/retirement) he's out of the set. No 15 year career for Mark Fidrych. Maybe you want Dale Murphy to be a catcher, and Pete Rose at 2nd, but in those games, only what they did during the season you're playing is used.
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Ah, I can see that. Of course, house rules can compensate for some of that. In our Stratomatic league we allowed players who changed position to play at their previous position(s) for three years after after they made the switch in real life. We had a formula based on real life likelihoods of errors at different positions to convert a (say) range 1 error 23 guy at short back into a third baseman.
We mostly used this for guys like Edgardo Alfonso who used to be utility players but settled into one spot later in their careers. (Edgardo was my supersub for six seasons, filling in at third, short or second as needed.) It worked equally well when the Braves converted Chipper Jones into an outfielder and old what's-his-name moved from short to third for the Orioles.