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Originally Posted by bailey
Trying to find unusual performance in batter vs. pitcher would be like finding a needle in a haystack because you wouldn't know if it was the beneficiary of hard-coding or small sample size. Anyway, the original question is interesting because I'd like to know if batters or pitchers who are "hot" continue to remain "hot" or is it just a fluke of random numbers with no promise of similar performance in the next game. So can hitters be "hot" (or "cold") because of a feature in the coding that randomly selects players occasionally to perform outside of their normal ratings for a few game weeks? Kind of like Civilization 4's "golden age" where your civ is unusually productive for 10 turns.
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It's implied in the manual and reported by players elsewhere that hitters can get into longer than random slumps (the manual states that work ethic is used in part for "slump management"). I'd imagine that there are certain skills that allow a player to ride a hot streak for longer than random as well. And I'm almost positive there's something out there for "clutch" as well but most players don't have it and it doesn't do a whole lot for players that do.