In my series this week, my opponent has Troy Glaus playing shortstop.

First, let me say that this is NOT a whine about that - I'd do it too, because his offense is worth more (especially in PB) than the expected error or 2 per week.

Why I bring this up is questioning how the game uses defensive statistics vs. ratings.

I was curious how well Glaus was doing at short, because his defensive ratings there are terrible :
4 innings, ODR 0.7, RNG 0.9, FPCT 1, DP 0.1

To my surprise - Glaus has played 189 of a possible 192 innings at SS this PB season - with ZERO errors. He's also turned like 7 DP's, where my primary SS/2B combo with ratings of 7 & 7.4 have only managed 1 DP in over 100 innings (and I recall MANY times where they simply didn't complete it, though I obviously have no stats to tell me how many they missed).

I looked around the league, and only 2 other SS with at least 120 innings have ZERO errors.

My question is this : Is the game so influenced by the fact that Glaus has not committed an error in his 4 MLB innings ? It's not like his statistical range this season (in PB) is very low either, so he's getting to balls.

I'm just curious if this version of Glaus is just extremely "quirky lucky" over 190 innings, or if maybe there is something in the engine that is overly influenced by his MLB 1.00 FPCT at short. I remember the commish making a big deal out of players playing "out of position", and made a point that players at positions like CF & SS would be more severely affected. I realize that Glaus is not "out of position" since he did have 1 assist in his 4 innings. However, the manual states that a batter with less than 10 PA will be downgraded, regardless of his performance in those 10 AB. I'm guessing that the same does not apply to fielding positions, and I wonder if maybe it should.

Just a curiousity - anyone have any insights or similar experiences ?