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Originally Posted by swampdragon
4. The available stats in Lahman are limited as far as defense is concerned.
5. Unless we're going to pretend that the original results were mostly luck and that there's no problem, the task for historical OOTP has to be improving the importing or modifying of defensive ability. Everyone with me so far?
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I just did some tests where I tweaked the A's and Dodgers defensive ratings for a few of their players that I thought were off and both teams BABIP and overall performances were similar to real life. This happened in multiple tests. Without these adjustments, both teams BABIP were much higher than in real life and both generally performed far worse too.
In other words, defensive ratings do seem to be a big problem, but how to fix? Does anyone aside from Markus even know how the ratings are calculated upon importing?
If we had direct access to the game database, we could make a utility that could modify the ratings based on our own algorithm. I don't think he's going to give us such access, however. So short of asking Markus to improve his algorithm and hoping he looks at it, is there anything practical that we can do that would help him improve the defensive ratings?