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Originally Posted by Rain King
If it is a "pitcher" thing, it could also be just as much about the diversity of their arsenal as it is fatigue.
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True that, but if they have a limited pitch arsenal, they probably aren't starting pitchers, and therefore haven't been included in any of the studies regarding the TTOP effect.
But even if we do consider that, it is still "a pitcher thing".... and therefore it's a mistake to just program in a TTOP effect for everyone.
Perhaps the best way to handle it is to program in a significant, across the board TTOP penalty for all pitchers with only 2 pitches that kicks in after the first time through (thus forcing you almost to make them relievers) and programming fatigue to occur over the course of the game for starters as a way to simulate both a real TTOP effect and the fact that with starters it's probably really more of a fatigue thing. And for all I know, that's exactly the way OOTP does it. *shrug*