</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Cusefan95:
<strong>That must be it, but why in god's name would they make the runs allowed total roll over at 255 (or any number for that matter). Terrible decision there.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">It has to do with storage size... you have to take double the memory to store to the next convient computer limit (511). It doesn't roll over per say but the computer doesn't store values creater than 255 in the same way... when it tries to store 256 into the space designed to hold a high value of 255 it looks like 0 to the game... hence why it appears to "roll over"
Secondly, its not a poor design decision, consider this that the worst pitchers in baseball only gave up 132 runs last season, just over one half of that limit... so it seems reasonable to not expect a pitcher to allow 255 runs in a season.... Even Dead ball pitchers did not allow that many runs and they pitched almost double the innings...
The only terrible decision I see is to have let that guy pitch so often...
<small>[ 06-05-2002, 01:19 PM: Message edited by: ScottVib ]</small>