Thread: Blown saves!!!!
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Old 07-21-2013, 08:12 PM   #15
olivertheorem
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Originally Posted by jofos View Post
Sorry for a post like this but, isn't this game suppose to be a simulator based on real stats? If so then players should preform similar to the way they do or did in real life. In the case of Casey Janssen he has 4 blown saves in his career 39 out of 43 not very accurate for a simulator.
To piggyback on Fyrestorm, actually it isn't a simulator based on real stats, at least not exclusively. In a 2013 MLB game, there are no "real stats" from which to simulate, since the season hasn't happened yet. So, ratings are devised based on past performance, a player development engine is developed to make the players progress/decline realistically, and an outcomes engine is developed to get league totals close to where they are in reality.

Once you start a 2013 game, it's all fictional from there. Even if a good player in RL takes a nosedive.

(Now, a historical game can be different, depending on settings. There, a player is often, though not always, expected to produce similarly to what he did in reality, since there is a hard-and-fast record of what he did).
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