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Originally Posted by Ankit
Intelligent assessment of potential and actual abilities of players imported from Lahman. I don't want a hitter who went 6 for 18 in his only stint to be rated the same as a hitter who went 3 for 9 in his rookie season but was 1000 for 3000 in his career. Same for pitchers.
Summary:
Instead of having the current option of Adjust hitters with less than X at-bats (in THE IMPORTED SEASON), make it an option that is:
Adjust Hitters with less than X AB in their CAREER
Adjust Pitchers with less than X IP in their CAREER
Make Bad Hitters with less than X AB in their CAREER
Make Bad Pitchers with less than X IP in their CAREER
The "X" should be adjustable by the user.
Also, allow players who can hit and pitch to be able to do so automatically.
These should help a lot in making DBs more usable with OOTP.
Another thought, what about reading and importing ballpark info from a txt/csv file? I think we can create that file so that each year, the game can read that file and assign the appropriate ballpark, dimensions, seats, and park factors to the relevant team. We can work out the details if you are interested.
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Anything Ankit says about importing players!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, along the lines of importing players: How about an option to base a players import ratings on his rookie year plus x number of years. Then I could choose say to import players based on the import year plus the next 2 years per se. I know there is a choice...or has been in the past for full career, remaining career, or peak seasons but this could be another option. I have used the modified DB exclusively in the past because I want people who had lousy first seasons to have a chance to develop. But these modified DB then cause some to come in ready to play and play well too quickly. Example of my suggestion, Nolan Ryan as a rookie in 1966. He pitched 3.2 innings with a 13 or something like that ERA. With the regular Lahman he comes with such lousy ratings that many times he doesn't develop at all. If you could average his first 2 or 3 seasons then he will come in somewhat better but still with room for improvement. Then maybe he will and maybe he won't and I'm ok with that. Mike Schmidt was the same way..awful first year, shaky second, and much improved third. Combining the 3 he will have a better chance of becoming what he was but still not a sure thing.