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Are we going to see fielding impacted in this patch, much like what was announced to the simmasium gang as an upgrade for that game?


Yes. I don't want to make this seem like a bigger deal than it really is, but I did make a modest adjustment to the fielding system that will be in 9b and the Simnasium game. We've learned a lot about defense in the last ten years, and although no major changes were needed, it was time to make bring the engine in line with what our latest research was telling us. Going forward, the performance spread between range ratings will be a little larger than it was before.

In addition, I've made another in a long series of tweaks to the out-of-position penalties. Over the years, we've been engaged in an ongoing effort to find the right way to simultaneously (a) penalize managers who try to abuse the game by using players in ridiculous ways and (b) allow DMB managers the same freedom to make the reasonable position changes that real-life managers enjoy.

To that end, the out-of-position penalties have been increased for players who are moving to more difficult and/or less familiar positions (e.g. C to anywhere, OF to IF, 1B to CF) and reduced for players who are moving to easier/similar positions (e.g. CF to LF/RF, SS to 2B).