[jaysdailydose]

Because we feel that the game accurately predicts the true difficulty in trying to do this in the pros and we don't want a working system broken?

You said it yourself, you know that the rating goes up and down, and down much more than up. How is this not representative of real life?

The data is NOT on your side on this, that is why you are "getting such resistance." The article you posted shows a bunch of guys that were starters their entire lives and broke into the majors in the pen and then became starters.

Also, your idea that "anyone can be stretched out to go the distance" is just false. If that was the case, every starter out there would be finishing their games.. There are obviously guys that come out at 95-100 pitches, some guys that can still go 140. Those guys that come out at 95-100 pitches every start, haven't they been "stretched out" adequately when they haven't pitched an inning in relief in their life?

I'm not trying to be offensive, but you're going to get resistance because I think you underestimate how rare it actually is for a lifetime reliever to make a successful conversion to starting. The guys that are capable of starting will have the stamina for it, and the guys you are trying are probably just too marginal to consider it, and you don't want them to be. The game is telling you that, but instead of listening to what the data is telling you, you're trying to force things (to the point where you are editing the ratings.)

Now, its your game, play it your way -- but you not liking how the system works does not mean the system is broken or in need of improvement.