OOTP Baseball talk:Important Game Concepts/The Player Model/Player Positions and Roles

I don't see the information I submitted earlier concerning learning defensive positions in games with historical players and recalc. If it is thought there are errors in what I wrote, let's discuss so I can correct them.

Yes, there error is, each time the player is recalculated, anything not on that players datapoint in the database, will be reset. So, if the player only played LF but you trained them into CF, that next off-season CF will be removed because they did not know CF in that given year. Now this DOES work if you are using the development engine only, but each season, 3 years or 5 years (Depending on your recalc settings) anything that the player did not know in real life, will be removed, so that is why I removed that part from the Wiki, because it is not how recalc and position ratings work. Same with any development that happens (If the development engine is being used in conjunction to recalc) as soon as the players are recalculated in the off-season, all increases or decreases in the players ratings are reset to the recalc datapoint in the database.

That's not my experience. Several times I have trained Roberto Clemente to play CF and he retained his ratings for a number of years. He only declined at the position when his basic ratings for range, error, etc declined. Please check this and then reinstate me edits. My setting when this happened was 3 year recalc and fielding on 3 year with development on. Please recall that "forever" this was the default setting for historical games.

I tested this with development off. Three year recalc. CF ratings started at 0. Full season at position resulted in rating of 9 (1-20 scale). Jan 2 following year rating stayed at 9. What I wrote is correct for recalc with and without dev.