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Originally Posted by le receveur
I did say make specific stats optional- you want to keep it fine. and to me ER is obsolete and currently the only stat reported on the players first page. this is a stat that thinks a pitcher is not longer responsible when and error has happen. it also relies IRL on the interpretation of the scorer, as to what was an error, and lead to heavy manipulations, IRL.
and I do understand like many other issues this is not only an OOTP legacy issue. also OOTP has decided to freeze itself in current baseball-like reporting WAR and Saves for games in 1902.
edit: and as for Removing Babe Ruth while you are at it, actually OOTP allows a world where Babe Ruth never existed, it's called fictional. It however does not allow for a world without Saves (i'll pick the worse stat of all)
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You said move away from them (or at least make them optional), which led me to believe you preferred that it be removed all together.
I don't disagree at all about earned runs not being a good stat for evaluation. There are a lot of stats in baseball that aren't the best for evaluation, but they aren't going away. OOTP gives us the ability to customize views so we can easily see the stats that matter most to us.
It sounds to me like you'd prefer the ability to customize the stats that appear on a player's profile page. That's certainly something you could put over in the suggestion forum and probably find some support for it.