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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function
#59022	05/30/2018 9:02:10 am	Apr 25th, 2036	Ignore
wickersty Joined: 05/11/2017 Posts: 1002 Deadwood Perambulators II.1	Please correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I've noticed what appears to be evidence that players at a very young age are able to learn new positions (i.e. gain lower case position letters) more quickly (maybe even much more quickly) than older players. Example: Solis was drafted Round 1 2036, and did not know how to play 3B at all. At age 19, within 25 games he had learned his lower case 3b. Mesa is 28 years old, but at the beginning of 2035 I placed him at 3B to learn the position from scratch. It's taken him until early this season to get his lower case 3b. That's a big difference in time. It does make sense to me that a 19 year old minor leaguer would learn a new position faster than a 27 year old major leaguer, so maybe that's indeed baked into the code. Any thoughts?
#59025	05/30/2018 11:28:27 am	Apr 25th, 2036	Ignore
Jaybrams Joined: 04/05/2018 Posts: 97 Inactive	not sure... This guy played almost 200 games at catcher, more than any other position in the minors, before he got his lower c. Maybe there is a hidden value of "learning speed" randomized for each person? (Side note: previous owner moved him around a ton, which is a bit disheartening, but i digress) Updated Wednesday, May 30 2018 @ 11:29:04 am PDT
#59031	05/30/2018 1:27:40 pm	Apr 25th, 2036	Ignore
AssumedPseudonym Joined: 10/26/2016 Posts: 1130 Deerfield Beach Rats V.7	What probably happened is that he was created close to having his lowercase 3b when he was drafted. The real measure will be how long it takes him to get his uppercase from there.
#59039	05/30/2018 4:41:53 pm	Apr 28th, 2036	Ignore
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9596 Haverhill Halflings III.1	AP nailed it. I've had young players train for 5 years before gaining a position. It really depends on where they started out, and every players starts out in a different place for experience in every position. If you happen to train them in a position they already have some experience in, they will appear to "gain" the position sooner. I suspect some guys also come with negative experience for some positions (like catcher), so it can actually take them longer to get "c" than to go from "c" to "C". Updated Wednesday, May 30 2018 @ 4:43:02 pm PDT

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