Position Changes

Reposted from 2/1/12 with a few updates...

There's many people who erroneously think that allowing a player to play a new position will get you random vitals when the player is changed. That's not true. They aren't random and you can keep tabs on your natural position changes. Even if they already have the position as a secondary position, when they change it'll be a reflection of their actual performance over the past two seasons. Using these checks is a nice thing to do throughout the process so you know if you need to abort the natural position change or if it's going smoothly. I've converted many players doing this (Ken Smith, Paul Finnell, Ross Elless for example) and I've aborted a handful as well (Jose Rabena to LF).

- If you start a player at a position different than his primary position for two consecutive seasons, he will likely change to that new position after the re-signing period in the second year.

--- The player has to make the majority of his starts at the new position in consecutive years.

--- The player must make at least 30 starts at the new position in consecutive years (This was from BM 11, BM 14 relies on Innings for vitals, so it may revolve around Innings played now).

--- The player must finish the season as a full-time player at the new position and be re-signed (players who are traded or go to Free Agency generally do not get this change).

--- The player's new predicted (vitals) will be the average of his performance at the new position over the past two seasons (odd fractions will round up, i.e. 7.5 would round up to 8, but 8.5 would stay at 8)

EXAMPLE
I have done this with Ross Elless, moving him to CF.

2025: 118 G, 7 A, 260 PO, 0 DP, 3 E
2024: 86 G, 9 A, 204 PO, 1 DP, 1 E (ATL and COL combined)

He should have a predicted CF defense of:
102 G, 8 A, 232 PO, 0 DP, 2 E (as of Off-Season File Season 17)

By opening up a new game, you can edit some CF's predicted stats to see what he'd look like.