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Originally Posted by injury log
If 8 teams are making your playoffs, then you'd only really expect to win 14/8 = 1.75 championships if the playoffs are random. The playoffs aren't random, of course, but they're close, so winning twice in 14 years isn't so bad. If only 4 teams make your playoffs, well, that's a different story.
I've at times suspected that streaks and slumps reset at the beginning of the playoffs, even if the icecubes and flames are still printed on the lineup screen, so that players who have put up monster stats because of a year-long streak can suddenly turn into mediocrities once the playoffs start. Have never looked into this closely, however.
I'm still not convinced there's a game issue, since I think most of the results people have seen can come from small sample size. Like other posters in this thread, I've certainly had very long championship droughts in OOTP with great teams, but I've also had runs with three or four WS wins in a row (often with lesser teams).
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In my league only 4 teams make the playoffs. The 3 division winners and a single wild card team. The thing that I really notice in the playoffs is how many opposing average pitchers seem to be come 5 star aces and how fast my 4 star pitchers start looking like 1 star duds.
As others have said many times in this thread, something just feels "off". To me it seems like the players are getting reset to the beginning of the year and that their season performances are forgotten. This might explain how great teams suddenly come up flat while lesser teams come up huge time and time again.
-Cork55