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Originally Posted by Another Mike D
Well, I'll take a look at it today with some other players (like Biggio, Sheffield, etc) and see how their defense imports at different stages. Maybe there can be a threshold of like X games or something needed to attain a rating.
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That's good. Biggio is a good example. As the game is now, he will import as a C and stay there. 2B and CF will never show up for him. Now I will say that I could almost handle this because he was moved mainly too keep his legs for his speed and to prolong his career. He was a good C. But others, Dale Murphy would only be a C and he was awful. He couldn't even throw the ball back to the pitcher. Cecil Fielder was never going to be anything other than a 1B/DH. Ron Gant played 2B his rookie season and he was terrible. They moved him to 3B the next year and had to return him to the minors because his fielding woes led to hitting woes. When he returned as an OF he had a pretty good career. He never regularly played anything other than OF again. There are hundreds or thousands of Fielders, Gants, and Murphys in the game but very few Biggios or Ripkens (Came up as a very good 3B who moved to SS when their better fielding but no hit SS left). This issue really bothers me as I guess most can tell because the game has done this for a number of versions and has now gone back to the rookie season. This is one of the reasons (probably the biggest) so many people came out with modified DB in earlier versions of OOTP. As far as the threshold, maybe the player must play a certain % of his total games played at a particular position to be rated there.