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Old 08-14-2008, 07:40 AM   #16
Simon_Nesbit
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobfalconi View Post
In my experience the Hold Runners rating acts as a flag to whether a player is a pitcher or batter. So if the Hold Runners rating is 0, he develops as a hitter and his pitching ratings (stuff, etc.) are frozen. If the rating is anything other than 0 he develops as a pitcher and his batting ratings (eye, power, gap, etc.) are frozen and do not develop.

I'm new to the game but I've done a lot of research into this because this was driving me crazy until I figured it out.

So if you want you can manually change a pitcher to a hitter by exporting the roster and changing the Hold Runners rating. You can't do it by editing the ratings as commissioner because you aren't allowed to set a rating to 0.

Hope that helps.
Good news for those who like to match up historical players if true. Can anyone verify (I'm away from my game computer atm)?

Doesn't help genuine 2-way players however. (My "Gladiator Ball" League - 12 players per team, all can bat, all can pitch, not in OOTP).
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