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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
Can anyone confirm or deny if the AI teams implement pitch counts? If not, is this something that should be changed?
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Not sure if anyone other than Markus & Co. can answer that. However, we as users have the ability to set the overall tendencies/strategies of the AI on the league settings page. I'm not sure there's an exploit here unless a league was set up for one extreme (use of relievers very rarely, for example) and the user employed the opposite strategy.
As it is, the 2014 quickstart "out of the box" plays similarly to what the OP suggests. The AI pulls most starters around or just over 100 pitches, except for top-line starters who are throwing well.
Obviously there are extreme strategies like the one cuervo links to that may work, but it seems to me that that's a deliberate exploit, not one found accidentally through trial and error of legitimate baseball strategy. If someone wants to play that way, so be it (as Wolf says, it's your game, play it your way), but I'm not going to be one to beg Markus to institute AI pitch counts to counter that strategy.