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Originally Posted by chucksabr
Suppose it is possible for AI to recognize this. What do you think should be the practical effect of that? How should AI respond to the circumstance that a team is in danger of being relegated?
In real life, what do teams that are in danger of relegation do in the last few weeks to avoid it? I mean, other than simply playing better? The teams might not be good enough to benefit from using playoff baseball strategies.
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I'm not saying that a team in danger of relegation should be able to do something to avoid it - but they certainly shouldn't do something that automatically plummets them into relegation. In the example I gave, teams in 6th or 7th have a tendency to sell off their marquee players for prospects, sending them spiraling head-first into last place. And the AI sees no problem with that, because in a traditional baseball setup, there's really no difference between last or next-to-last. In a real-life relegation set-up, teams would do pretty much everything in their power to attempt to keep their heads above water.