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RonCo · 12-31-2009, 05:12 PM

Unless something changed in X, OOTP does nothing to ensure a .260 hitter ends up a .260 hitter. There is no "evening out of stats." Everything is controlled by (the grossly mis-named) league totals--which are applied on the basis of a single AB, not on an annual basis. It's possible that adjustments for count could be causing some oddities, but I doubt it. I had done a study of the "damage" caused by always taking to 2-strikes, and found no degradation in batting averages...and in fact wound up with the opposite, probably because my hitters were facing tired pitchers more often.

I've come to the conclusion that pitch-by-pitch mode is essentially a "cheat" to help the human win. It's not designed that way, but it's a huge advantage to the human as best as I can tell both because of these design elements (results are fundamentally designed to occur on an at-bat basis, not a per-pitch basis) and because the in-game AI will always be behind a reasonably knowledgable human.

12-31-2009, 05:12 PM	#10
RonCo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 10,386	Unless something changed in X, OOTP does nothing to ensure a .260 hitter ends up a .260 hitter. There is no "evening out of stats." Everything is controlled by (the grossly mis-named) league totals--which are applied on the basis of a single AB, not on an annual basis. It's possible that adjustments for count could be causing some oddities, but I doubt it. I had done a study of the "damage" caused by always taking to 2-strikes, and found no degradation in batting averages...and in fact wound up with the opposite, probably because my hitters were facing tired pitchers more often. I've come to the conclusion that pitch-by-pitch mode is essentially a "cheat" to help the human win. It's not designed that way, but it's a huge advantage to the human as best as I can tell both because of these design elements (results are fundamentally designed to occur on an at-bat basis, not a per-pitch basis) and because the in-game AI will always be behind a reasonably knowledgable human. Last edited by RonCo; 12-31-2009 at 05:13 PM.