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Originally Posted by kjsjr

I noticed there was another user who mentioned what I believe is the same issue elsewhere, but the replies were unhelpful and dismissive on that thread and I can't find it now, so I'll post the observation here, hopefully in a crystal clear way. I'll set up the issue as a little experiment that's easy to reproduce, so hopefully devs et al. see clearly what I mean.

4 test groups:

a) Catchers OOTP 20 have MLB experience in real life
b) Catchers OOTP 20 no MLB experience in real life (played in minors only)
c) Catchers OOTP 21 have MLB experience in real life
d) Catchers OOTP 21 no MLB experience in real life (played in minors only)


Start OOTP20, setup a historical game, I chose from the Golden Age era but I don't think it matters. Let the game be created, and save it. Do the same using the same settings in OOTP21. Save. I took no in-game actions (i.e. altered nothing, did nothing, I just looked at ratings in the games that OOTP20 and OOTP21 created).

Now in these games you've set up, look at catcher ratings (I used the player editor to get the rating, to make sure it wasn't a scouting error, but the true number rating). Catchers in group d above will have higher defensive ratings than catchers from the other 3 groups. An unusual number of catchers from that group will have almost perfect defensive ability.

I can think of no rationale for this, I cannot believe it was intentional, and I reproduced it on different machines with fresh installs a few times, so here you go, historical db bug issue report.

For myself, I wish I could simply use whatever method converted historical stats to ratings in OOTP20 to do that for OOTP21.

i may just be missing something obvious but i currently cannot recreate this challenge. minor league catchers average ratings are within normal parametrs ear as i can find. if you have specific playe names and years available i can check them out