Change Player Stats - Explain please?

New here. Want to take baseball very serious. What does CHANGE PLAYER STATS do? Is there a benefit? Is there a section on here that you can link to me that will explain this? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Depending on what league you're in, it definitely can, and I do it all the time!

If it's a league based on a single year, or random players, you will not be able to, as it's designed to play for that specific player of that season...if it's a decades league or what have you, sure, go nuts and see if you can configure it to your advantage!

All dependent on what you want to do...Example: Someone might have a way higher OPS in another year but be a horrid defender, so you split the difference and take a less volatile year defensively, but they might not have slugged as much.

Hope that helps!

Or in rare cases you have players who's default season for a particular year range isnt exactly what you would consider to be that player' best year. For example: for the longest time, whenever I got RP Aroldis Chapman in All Time Great, best of 1970-present, etc leagues, he used to always default to his 2012 stats. But I (and some others I noticed doing the same as me) always preferred swapping him to his 2014 stats instead (in 2012, he has a WHIP that is only a few points lower but noticeably lower H/9 and K/9 rates than his 2014 performance). It was only recently that I noticed his default had changed across the board (he now defaults to 2014 in all cases I've paid attention to since) so I assume he was being swapped often enough and gbacci noticed it and tweaked his default season

Now Chapman's 2025 is his best. Sometimes I change seasons to fill a position - in ATG Albert Pujols has his default OF season, but also has several good 1B seasons. Jim Thome has a usable season at 3B if you have a need there. When you've played a set long enough, you identify players with position flexibility.