AI Too Heavily Favoring Defense
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So, I have a single season sim runnign where we've added past or future stars to our 1987 replay. The issue is, some of the players are not playing. For instance, Shoeless Joe is getting benched for Daryl Boston. While less ridiculous but still unreasonable is Robin Venture playing behind Donnie Hill. There are others I'm sure. I just haven't gone through each team eyet.
The only reason I can gather is that the AI is over evaluating fielding. If they were reasonably close in ratings I could buy it but they're trading a 7.5 WAR player for a 0.7 WAR player and a 4.7 WAR player for another 0.7 one. I get the AI doesnt know their real life WAR but they can see the ratings. The only logical reason is the defense but even that isn't logical with as many wins as they are giving up... I guess I could take the time to force start all of these players but A. that's time consuming and B. I've always seen the AI plays those guys until they drop. Like they won't substitute for them to keep them fresh until they damn near dead. There's no setting to control this that I know of. Do I have any other options? I tried changing the AI eval settings to all kinds of things and none seem to make a difference... |
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This one makes even less sense. Really no sense. The AI is starting Roy Smalley at DH over Rod Carew...
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I have a random debut league going right now and the New York Giants benched Derek Jeter for the entire 1903 season in favor of Jonathan Villar. Jeter is a dreadful 36 defensively at SS, while Villar is I think either a 50 or 60. I'm using one year recalc, so I will be very interested to see what happens next season. I think Villar recalced to his best MLB season for 1903, 285, 19 home runs and 62 stolen bases. Next season he should crumble, so I'm guessing Jeter will be back starting.
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I'm not in front of the game at the moment and can't find a screenshot online but is there anything in Manager Profiles that may impact lineup decisions? What if you changed from Traditional to Saber or vice versa?
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That is very curious and I wish I had an answer. My wild guess would be some strange things happen when you mix players from various years. Hopefully someone will have a reasonable explanation.
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I have to admit that when I first read the title of the thread, I was like "Yes...Now the Mark Belangers of the world will be set free from being stapled to the bench, and the full value of their contributions will be accounted for...WOOO-HOOO!!!"...And then I opened up the thread, and...What the?
The irony of the Ventura/Hill one is that Ventura consistently wins gold gloves when he's in my leagues because he was such a great fielder. The dude could hit too. I remember the hype surrounding Daryl Boston when he first came up. He had awesome tools, but he'd be a mediocre 4th or 5th OF option on most teams no? Shoeless Joe was on his way to Cooperstown (even though the Hall didn't exist back then) before the scandal hit in 1919. Hill was a decent backup infielder/utility player, but not a starter, and definitely not over Robin Ventura. Smalley was a decent hitter with very good pop for a SS, but we're talking about Rod freakin' Carew here. None of these make any sense really, so I'd like to know what's going on as well. I doubt it's anything in the settings because Jackson, Ventura, and Carew are clearly superior players that are getting jobbed. Gonna have to keep an eye out for this one myself. My only question is were Boston, Hill, and Smalley III originals on their teams, while Jackson, Ventura, and Carew were the ringers that arrived in the time machine? Could that be messing with the AI? It shouldn't be because in each case the ratings make it crystal clear who the better player is. That's all I've got for ya. I'm completely flummoxed. |
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That's an idea that's been bandied about here recently. |
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I suppose it could be that they are indeed the ringers, but there are guys on other teams actually playing. Not every ringer is getting sat. It’s weird too bc I’ve run these before on previous versions and never had an issue. |
Hatteberg worked at first base because defensive ability is almost irrelevant at that position. The difference in wins saved by a premier defensive first basemen and a guy like David Ortiz is quite minimal. The Scott Hatteberg experiment doesn't work at any other position except maybe left field. That doesn't disqualify defense being important at other positions. Saying all of that, I tend to agree with the OP that the AI seems to be kind of messed up here in choosing who plays.
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So what do you guys think? My only option at this point to force start them?
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Well defense is important. An extreme example here, but in a game of mine the Indians had JD Martinez play 150 games in RF. He had 6 WAR on offense, and -5.5 on defense. They basically spent $23 million and gave up prospects to get a barely replacement level guy, all because they played him in the field.
Of course, that’s an extreme scenario because JD Martinez was rated 20/80 in RF, and they had a below-average CF too which didn’t help either. |
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1) These players produce fewer wins and the AI is overvaluing these players for whatever reason. Maybe defense. Maybe scouting. Etc.. 2) these players actually do produce more wins. |
You guys are so focused on defense or defending the game or whatever your agenda is that you're completely overlooking the fact that there is ZERO reason why Roy Smalley should be playing DH over Rod Carew. I would also argue that the advantage that Hill has over Ventura defensively is minimal. Lastly, don't the star levels take into account defensive ratings?
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