I've just been playing around today with the new features. While I am pleased to see the HOF monitor appear in the player pages, I was puzzled why I was getting such discrepant values from my own file crunching program as well as the B-R pages for the MLB league. After some investigation, I think I've identified two issues. I would appreciate someone else confirming my math on this. I don't *think* this is an issue for a bug report since it's mainly a difference in how stats are calculated, not an error, per se. But let me know if I should put this in the tech support forum.
1) In the HOF monitor, the system rewards pitchers for post-season starts: 2 points for each WS start, 1 point for each relief appearance, and 2 for a win. 1 point for each LCS or LDS win. Because OOTP only retains broad post-season stats, it appears to assume that any post-season win or start is a WS win or start and give out two points. If I'm correct about this, it massively inflates the HOF monitor scores of pitchers who make the post-season a lot (John Smoltz, for example, sees his monitor score soar from 162 (B-R) to 214 (OOTP)).
There's no real fix for this but in my code, I lowered the post-season bonuses to half a point for any post-season start, a quarter of a point for a relief appearance and a half a point for a win. It's not perfect but it restores some balance, I think.
(Of course, OOTP may now track more diverse post-season stats, so this would only be an issue for historic stats.)
2) The monitor also appears to have one slight disagreement on hitters. I have a career 3B who has played 2000 games and the system appears to give him the appropriate 15 point bonus. However, he has not played 2000 games at third base; he spent a lot of time at LF and 1B, as the fielding games stats clearly show.
Anyway, two little things that appear to be a problem. Would like to see these show up in the sortable tables at some point.
