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Originally Posted by Living Lejuhnd
I think the conclusion that we have to draw from this is that a game is not going to run on conventional baseball wisdom. Conventional baseball wisdom says that Byrd is not your standard leadoff hitter. Does that make sense? That's for the baseball gurus to argue about. But according to whatever algorithms are deciding these things in the game, under certain situations, with certain guys sitting out, the game thinks that Byrd at leadoff gives the team the best chance to win. Maybe he does, and maybe real life managers are too obtuse to consider this out of the box thinking.
I do however feel the Mo vs Robertson debate should be handled differently. When a longtime vet is under contract, unless he's terribly blowing it (in this case he clearly isn't) he should be starting in his expected role.
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I bet if you had AI Eval based more on stats (especially some weight to past years) Mo would be closing, He never was taken out the closer spot in my game.