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Originally Posted by RchW
Players can be hot or cold. That may have some effect, but I don't think there is a bad day good day model.
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I'm a bit confused by this answer. Are you saying that you think the game has streaks of days where a player can be cold or hot, but not individual days?
I don't know the answer to that (Markus may be the only one who does), but my guess is you can have just good or bad days. And without knowing the truth either way I think I like believing that to be the case. It would seem too orchestrated or automatic if all it did was look at the situation (i.e. inning, score, count and whatever else) to determine the odds. I like the thought of simple bad days factoring in.
To more answer the OP's original question, I rarely play out my games, but when I do if a guy is getting shelled I'm taking him out (unless the game is already far lost and my staff is tired). It's a great question though. Is it more just bad luck so far and over the course of a game the player's luck should approach average or does the pitcher just have no chance that day? I really don't know, but with not knowing I think I'd rather try my luck with someone else.
I like how with OOTP there are little things like that that you can't help but wonder: does it work like in real life and does real life even work the way you think it does? Sometimes it's nice not knowing the answer.