[plannine]

Been playing around with 5.0 a bit. Seems to help early days alot (1871-1880), as long as the retire option is turned on, or you get alot of 1 year players, having HOF careers.

I tend to look at just a few players (over baseball's history) to use as benchmarks of the DB/Game. When someone doesn't appear, or appears in a odd way, i try to re-run and see if it is a fluke, or something wrong with the game or DB. So I tend to see what I feel are things that just arent right with certain players. (Sam Crawford, Gavvy Cravath, Cy Young, Adde Joss for example are my 1900-1910 players of interest). The negro leagues Rube Foster & Grant Johnson is my Negro League player of interest if they are included in the DB.(Im still learning about Japanese players, but i'm sure I will have a few more, other the Victor Starffin to know about)

So as in the past, Rube Foster seems to get very odd results - comes in to the game as a first baseman - if he makes the ball club, he will be the starting player, either at first or CF for a few years, makes a jump to pitcher for a few years, then returns to the OF then retires. (in a few tests he will stay in the minors for a couple of seasons, and retire).

Too many at bats are credited to him in the DB - is this the same with all the pitchers? How does that effect people who are credited with being pitchers and players? Does the 'fielding' numbers determine a players value rather then atbats or games from the hitting stats. Just alot of questions.

Still another great database - thanks again (for thousands of hours of gameplay! - my wife hates you and markus, more then she dislikes baseball!!!!