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muz · 08-14-2013, 02:29 AM

Perhaps somebody can give me some insight here.

1. I've played now over 100 seasons on OOTP 14, spread over two games. One was a real life game, one a fictional game.

In both games combined, never did a player hit 4 HR in a game. Most seasons, there were multiple players in both leagues who hit 40 HR, a few 50 HR seasons, even a 62 HR season. Yet in 100 seasons, nobody could do what Mark Whiten and Bob Horner both did. That doesn't make sense.

Any ideas?

2. Hitting streaks. These are way too uncommon. Even 25 game hitting streaks are very rare in OOTP; while they are rare in MLB as well, they aren't unheard of. Dan Uggla and Jimmy Rollins, of all people, had 30+ game streaks within a 5 year span (and I think there was one more as well).

I think part of the problem is that the AI will 1) pinch hit for star players in blowouts and 2) use star players to pinch hit in off days. Both factors obviously challenge hitting streaks.

But I set a bunch of star players to never pinch hit or be pinch hit for, and still the hitting streaks weren't happening.

So, to experiment, I created a super-batter. Maxed out his contact ratings and made him rarely walk. Batted him at the top of a stacked lineup to get lots of ABs (more than 700 each season). For four years in a row, he hit about .420 and had between 280-300 hits each season.

His hitting streaks during that span? 51 games, 37 games, 32 games and nothing else above 30. Only a handful of 20+ streaks. These are way too low and infrequent for a guy who *averages* almost 2 hits a game. If he never gets to 56 -- that I can understand. But over a full season, it's hard to believe that he wouldn't at least once put together 40 games with at least one hit.

Admittedly, the artificiality of this player makes it hard to estimate what his streaks would be in real life. But given that streaks are so rare overall, I think this is further evidence that something is amiss. Plus, this ties in with the observation in #1: he actually never got more than 6 hits in a game (6-7), and only once batted 1.000 with at least 5 hits (one 5-5 game). Again, we're talking about a guy with 300 hits for a season. He seems to get too many 4 hit games, and not enough 1 hit games and not enough 6 or 7 hit games.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

08-14-2013, 02:29 AM	#1
muz Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 39	Rare things that NEVER happen Perhaps somebody can give me some insight here. 1. I've played now over 100 seasons on OOTP 14, spread over two games. One was a real life game, one a fictional game. In both games combined, never did a player hit 4 HR in a game. Most seasons, there were multiple players in both leagues who hit 40 HR, a few 50 HR seasons, even a 62 HR season. Yet in 100 seasons, nobody could do what Mark Whiten and Bob Horner both did. That doesn't make sense. Any ideas? 2. Hitting streaks. These are way too uncommon. Even 25 game hitting streaks are very rare in OOTP; while they are rare in MLB as well, they aren't unheard of. Dan Uggla and Jimmy Rollins, of all people, had 30+ game streaks within a 5 year span (and I think there was one more as well). I think part of the problem is that the AI will 1) pinch hit for star players in blowouts and 2) use star players to pinch hit in off days. Both factors obviously challenge hitting streaks. But I set a bunch of star players to never pinch hit or be pinch hit for, and still the hitting streaks weren't happening. So, to experiment, I created a super-batter. Maxed out his contact ratings and made him rarely walk. Batted him at the top of a stacked lineup to get lots of ABs (more than 700 each season). For four years in a row, he hit about .420 and had between 280-300 hits each season. His hitting streaks during that span? 51 games, 37 games, 32 games and nothing else above 30. Only a handful of 20+ streaks. These are way too low and infrequent for a guy who averages almost 2 hits a game. If he never gets to 56 -- that I can understand. But over a full season, it's hard to believe that he wouldn't at least once put together 40 games with at least one hit. Admittedly, the artificiality of this player makes it hard to estimate what his streaks would be in real life. But given that streaks are so rare overall, I think this is further evidence that something is amiss. Plus, this ties in with the observation in #1: he actually never got more than 6 hits in a game (6-7), and only once batted 1.000 with at least 5 hits (one 5-5 game). Again, we're talking about a guy with 300 hits for a season. He seems to get too many 4 hit games, and not enough 1 hit games and not enough 6 or 7 hit games. Any ideas would be appreciated.