if you change someone's default position is there any benefit?

i'm assuming a few things:

1. does it alter their awards voting position? any benefit to that?

2. does it help them increase the more often used fielding ratings for the position assuming they are playing this changed default position?

3. is it worth doing for any reason above or another that i can't think of? i have a lot of guys - 2B, CF, etc that play generally just the one position but it's not their default - want to make sure im not missing even the slightest increase in value

Quote: Originally Posted By jjboogie on 1/21/2010if you change someone's default position is there any benefit?

i'm assuming a few things:

1. does it alter their awards voting position? any benefit to that?

2. does it help them increase the more often used fielding ratings for the position assuming they are playing this changed default position?

3. is it worth doing for any reason above or another that i can't think of? i have a lot of guys - 2B, CF, etc that play generally just the one position but it's not their default - want to make sure im not missing even the slightest increase in valu

1. No

2. No

3. It's just cosmetic. It may help you (and others) more easily identify what position he most commonly plays.

The only thing it affects is if you use the button in management console to set recommended lineups or when you use the show recs button on the lineup page. If you set all of your players as a Catcher and then did all of your lineups manually, it would not matter one bit what positions they are set for.

EDIT: Also effects recs button for defensive replacements and player rest pages.

thank you both!

Quote: Originally posted by overeasy on 1/21/2010The only thing it affects is if you use the button in management console to set recommended lineups or when you use the show recs button on the lineup page. If you set all of your players as a Catcher and then did all of your lineups manually, it would not matter one bit what positions they are set for.

EDIT: Also effects recs button for defensive replacements and player rest pages.

One more edit - in my experience, if you do not have an appropriate backup indicated on either the def. replacements or rest hierarchies, the AI will replace a player who has to leave a game (due to injury, ejection, PH/PR) with someone who has that player's position listed as either primary or secondary, even over someone whose defense is better.

For example, your starting 1B gets ejected, Spark will sub in someone else (even a scrub) with 1B listed as a position, even if you have a 4th OF who is a much better player (in all aspects) but doesn't have 1B listed as a position.

Quote: Originally posted by zbrent716 on 1/21/2010

Quote: Originally posted by overeasy on 1/21/2010The only thing it affects is if you use the button in management console to set recommended lineups or when you use the show recs button on the lineup page. If you set all of your players as a Catcher and then did all of your lineups manually, it would not matter one bit what positions they are set for.
EDIT: Also effects recs button for defensive replacements and player rest pages.

One more edit - in my experience, if you do not have an appropriate backup indicated on either the def. replacements or rest hierarchies, the AI will replace a player who has to leave a game (due to injury, ejection, PH/PR) with someone who has that player's position listed as either primary or secondary, even over someone whose defense is better.

For example, your starting 1B gets ejected, Spark will sub in someone else (even a scrub) with 1B listed as a position, even if you have a 4th OF who is a much better player (in all aspects) but doesn't have 1B listed as a position.

Which is determined by either the player rest or defensive replacements screen, which if you set these manually, still makes the individual player position setting meaningless.

I like having their primary position correct for when I look at depth charts. It makes it easier in my opinion.

Quote: Originally posted by vladyhop on 1/21/2010I like having their primary position correct for when I look at depth charts. It makes it easier in my opinion.

Of course it does as it's only usefulness is for using sim recommendation buttons or your own ease of organization. But for all of the questions he asked above, it is meaningless.

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You pretty much have to change their base position to the one they should be playing based on their attributes. Or, expect a boat load of errors.

Is there anything ill-advised in just going through and assigning all minor league players based on hitting the proj. rec button?

Quote: Originally Posted By opie100 on 2/14/2010Is there anything ill-advised in just going through and assigning all minor league players based on hitting the proj. rec button

This is how I do it for the most part. It has worked fine for me. The only alterations that I make is that I will change some suggested to positions to make that I have all positions covered. Some other very well could have found problems with doing this, however.

positions are grouped (pooled) for FA compensation purposes, correct?

I have been playing a pending FA at 1b all season, but recently changed his default to the "recommended" RF, with LF/1b as "backup", just in case RF isn't lumped with 1b for FA compensation purposes.

Quote: Originally Posted By soxfan121 on 2/14/2010positions are grouped (pooled) for FA compensation purposes, correct?

I have been playing a pending FA at 1b all season, but recently changed his default to the "recommended" RF, with LF/1b as "backup", just in case RF isn't lumped with 1b for FA compensation purposes

I believe that the position groupings are based on ratings, not by the assigned primary position. It's done this way to prevent somebody from gaming the process.

Quote: Originally Posted By travisg on 2/09/2010

Quote: Originally posted by sanderbear on 2/07/2010

One mistake I made early on was trusting the position given for a player. I saw "SS" and assumed the guy should be a SS. I later learned to trust ratings and switch player positions.

Never trust the position unless you listed it yourself.

If you feel you must "do something" when you first get your team, spend some time going through your entire system and list players only at the positions they're qualified to play. (Roster management screen, click the position name.)

This will give you a better idea of what you've got and familiarize you with the defensive ratings, and is time well spent. Some guys like to list players at every position they can handle, and other guys (like me) list them at three or fewer.

That is good advice.