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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac
IIRC there is PbP for a short delay due to an animal on the field.
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Oh cool -- that's great! I haven't run into that one yet. I just had the delay-by-beach-ball last night, which was fun to see.
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
A quick examination of the last few years of major and minor league postponement yields a figure of roughly 1.5% of postponed games being postponed for reasons other than weather.
What this means in practice is that even a game in a domed stadium should have a (small) chance of being postponed.
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Interesting stuff. Surprised to learn that it's as high as 1.5%, but I don't doubt your figures at all. And yes, absolutely there's the possibility for postponed games in domed stadiums -- a real-world example would be the postponed matches in Montreal's deteriorating Olympic Stadium when parts of the stadium were falling onto the field. There could be any number of facilities-related reasons why games could be postponed in a domed stadium -- flooding (an extreme fictional version of Oakland Coliseum's notorious sewage problems), fire, the aforementioned power outage, etc. There could also be regional-related causes for a postponement -- earthquake, gas leak requiring local evacuation, unrest/rioting causing local curfews, etc.
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Then there's the strategic aspect. A game postponed often means two games on another day. An unexpected off day combined with two games the next day clearly will have an impact on how a manager handles his pitching rotation and usage. While such postponement disruptions are infrequent these days in earlier times they were much more common.
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Absolutely. In fact, it'd be nice if in addition to unplanned doubleheaders caused by postponements, the season scheduler would support
planned doubleheaders, complete with all the fatigue-related consequences. (I know that these are scarce nowadays due to desire to maximize gate revenue, but it wasn't that long ago when doubleheaders (or even day/night doubleheaders) were part of a standard team schedule.
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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Both of these things together fall under the larger umbrella of immersion. It would make the OOTP game world feel more like the real thing with all its idiosyncrasies in my opinion.
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Amen -- I recognize that some might scoff at such minutia, but it's all about the immersive quality that it would provide.
Back to plays -- I've never seen it yet in OOTP, but I might just be unlucky so far. (It's not
that rare in real life):
The 4-1 groundout
Real life example:
Dozier, Gibson combine for out | MLB.com
(This is simply the groundball to right which the second baseman fields. The first baseman is too far to reach the bag in time, so the throw goes to the pitcher covering the bag.)