It just occurred to me that a program could be made to experiment with defensive ratings. If you export the team rosters as a text file, the program could then read the Lahman database that comes with the game, come up with the new ratings and then modify the roster file for reimportation. That would remove the tedium of hand inputting the ratings.
Of course, the hard part would then be coming up with an algorithm for using the Lahman stats to come up with ratings that are consistently superior to what the game comes up with.
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