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Personally I don't see it... but I never looked at the relief ERA of anything but my team in OOTP so I'm missing some stats from the game of course.
Talent levels change from level to level (like minors to majors) but basically the 'rules' don't. I think there is a difference between relievers and starters, more than just relievers putting everything they have into every pitch... but that's unprovable and beside the point of this post.
I don't know how the results show up in-game, I don't care to look back at the posts in this thread to find them.... but here's the data from 2005.
The numbers are from the standings. So it would be Atlanta on top all the way to Colorado on the bottom... anyhow:
starter - relief ERA
3.65 4.74
4.2 4.24
3.71 3.86
3.81 4.85
4.03 3.55
3.61 3.17
3.46 3.63
4.02 3.87
4.17 4.24
5.38 4.75
4.63 4.06
4.49 3.49
4.58 5.4
4.52 3.98
4.36 4.42
5.3 4.8
Half the teams in the NL had a higher relief ERA.
4.59 4.37
4.56 5.15
4.2 3.81
4.82 4.1
5.62 4.99
3.75 3.23
3.96 2.8
3.93 3.2
4.85 3.78
6 4.7
3.75 3.52
3.82 3.39
5.04 4.83
4.9 3.6
1 team in the AL had a higher relief ERA.
ML total: 4.36 - 4.11
NL total: 4.23 - 4.20
AL total: 4.52 - 4.00
Whatever that's worth. I wanted to look it up myself, and I think it puts a better light on it than some of the piece meal data I saw above.
It's not that large a difference, but if someone can point out a pitcher that had a lot of starts and a lot of relief appearances last year I wouldn't mind looking him up... I don't know of any. This just shows ML relief verse ML starting staff... doesn't address whether a pitcher is "better" in relief than when he starts.
In my experience in the game when I put a crappy relief squad on the field I ended up with crappy numbers, when I put a moderate relief squad together I got moderate results, and when I put a stellar relief squad together I got great results.
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