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Originally Posted by slugger922cubs
The disagreement seems to be that some people seem to think that TTOP is a law of pitching management and we should have more information pertaining to it to make decisions.
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I don't read much of the questions to be of that nature, but to each his own. I think the conversation about whether a pitcher's loss of effectiveness is because of only fatigue or because of hitter familiarity is interesting. Part of the issue is that every pitcher is different in his ability to throw a pitch-count. So the equations work fine, and knowing they are there is not much of an advantage or disadvantage, for that matter...because the "right time" to pull pitcher A will be different from the "right time" to pull pitcher B.
In this way, OOTP seems to me to be very much directionally correct, leading to the only real argument being as to whether the performance adjustments are placed in the right place pitcher-by-pitcher.
At the end of the day, since I'm positive Markus and crew wouldn't release where those are and how big they are, an OOTP GM/manager will always need to get a feel for their guys to judge this. Just like real life, eh?