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Old 12-05-2022, 01:44 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Rain King View Post
Can you provide more information on the type of historical simulation you are running?

Your comment that Arenado was moved to first base makes me think you are allowing the development engine to take over and not necessarily using recalc.

A few other thoughts.

1.) Defensive stats are pretty well documented to be difficult to accurately translate into ratings. Most of the best defensive metrics out there do not use traditional stats and do not exist for most of baseball's history.

2.) Particularly with Arenado, I wonder if Coors Field may cause problems with the statistical translation to defensive ratings since that field itself causes a much higher BABIP.

3.) You may want to search for Garlon posts on historical fielding ratings. I believe he was involved in a major re-work a version or two back that from all accounts I have seen improved things quite a bit (although I am sure it still isn't going to be perfect).
I'm playing random debut. 5 year recalc, fielding based on 3 years. I do have development on. TCR of 10. Thing is, just for fun, I created a 2018 straight up historical league and Arenado had the exact same ratings he did in my random debut. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how one can look at a player in OOTP and know he is supposed to be a top notch defensive player.
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