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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
You're not going to get realistic numbers for your pitching rotations because teams in the 1920s didn't have pitching rotations. Instead, every pitcher on the club (with a few rare exceptions) was expected to be a starter, and every pitcher had to be ready to pitch whenever the manager called on him. The 1920 Indians, for instance, had nine pitchers who threw over 40 innings, and each of them started at least twice and all of them appeared at least once in relief.
Furthermore, the club probably carried only seven or eight pitchers at any one time, which means that it had, in effect, an eight-man rotation. You can't do that in OOTP. At most, you can have a six-man rotation. So if you want to get close to recreating the conditions of 1920s baseball, you should have the following settings:
- six-man rotation
- start highest rested
- starters allowed in relief
- no closers or other relief specialists
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I get where you're coming from in terms of modeling the attitude that teams had back then. The problem is that, in OOTP, if you start highest rested, your top two starters will come up with 350-375 innings. Maybe that says that starters get rested too fast.