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Originally Posted by ootpyeahyouknowme
I'm really not so sure about that. On a consistent basis entire lineups will often underperform the entire season. Adding players, switching lineups, does nothing to change anything. The entire pitching staff will be overall atrocious sometimes, with even elite pitchers getting shelled.
I've always felt that it fixes you in for a certain offensive pattern or pitching pattern which you can't change. When things are going good, every player you put in hits, when bad, none of them do.
There's also patterns around the time of the season. I've noticed that at the end of the season, teams will generally either collapse totally or streak to the playoffs.
Or players will not hit for an entire half, then turn it on the 2nd half, ending up where his ratings are. Over the years I've seen a lot of these patterns in the game.
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My answer to most of what you said here, but especially the bolded part, is: Dude, that's baseball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes (though it doesn't cause rainouts in OOTP) it rains. There's a helluva lot of luck in baseball ya know, real and OOTP.