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Originally Posted by thehef
I'm not so sure. I understand what you are saying about Yaz in '73. That's not really what concerns me.
IMO, if you are playing with replay settings (1-year recalc, development off, and - most-importantly - base fielding ratings on current season), you should not see stuff like this:
Carl Yastrzemski
year, games at 3B:
1973, 71
1974, 23
1975, 143
1976, 138
1978, 116
1979, 58
1980, 6
1981, 37
1982, 12
1983, 12
When IRL Yaz played 2 games at 3B in '64, 31 in '73, and that's all. To me, that's a CLEAR indication that base fielding ratings on current season is broken.
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See this is where I think OOTP can't win for trying. If they fix what you're calling a bug, things will work perfectly for those playing using real transactions. If they fix the Yaz bug, lots of "what if" players will probably be screaming bloody murder. Even for the human manager it would be awfully tedious to have to scan real life player usage before each and every transaction. I'm more in favor of players losing ratings at positions based on OOTP use, than players losing ratings altogether.
As much as I'm calling into question some of this stuff, I am at least calmed down by Garlon saying when Kubek learns 2B and gathers in game experience, recalc isn't going to erase all that experience during the offseason with a heavy dose of reality. It's kind of a once Pandora's Box is open thing for me.
If you create 1974, Yaz only gets ratings for LF and 1B, using 1 year recalc, current season. Same setup for 1973 and Yaz gets rated to play LF, 1B and 3B. I simmed the 73 season and then simmed to 1974 preseason. Yaz is still rated to play LF, 1B and 3B. During the simmed 73 season he played in 3 games at 3B none of them starts. 151 games at 1B. No time in LF.