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Old 08-14-2007, 08:33 PM   #77 (permalink)
Elendil
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Suggestion

Add more advanced fielding statistic, such as zone rating.

Reason

OOTP doesn't really give us too many fielding stats currently - range factor and fielding percentage are just about all we have to go by. Sabermetricians have recently come up with new, more advanced fielding metrics, & my basic understanding of this is that it takes all "reachable" batted balls as the denominator and total chances as the numerator, thus yielding a percentage. It strikes me that this might not be terribly difficult to keep track of in a simulation game, where "reachable ball" might actually be something that's defined in the engine (I confess I have no idea how the fielding engine works in OOTP).

Priority

Medium - Not essential, but would be an awesome feature.
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