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thehef · 01-15-2018, 08:19 PM

Just spit-balling here, but short of having a historical txns file that includes 1) injuries, and 2) trips to & from the minors, maybe AI could - at the start of each game - make active 25 (or whatever the active roster limit that the gamer has chosen) of the 35-55 players, based upon first choosing all of the players who played in the game IRL (if that is known & part of the historical lineups file; if not, at least those that were in that day's starting lineup), plus filling out the day's roster with logical choices... For those choices, in order to keep the pitching staff from always having the freshest guys available (which would be unrealistic) AI should add most of the guys who are currently less than 100% rested - the idea being that if a guy is tired, he likely played in a game very recently and it would therefore be realistic to assume that he should be on the active roster.

An ideal solution? No. More-realistic than having 35-55 players on the active roster? Yep.

I'll note that I would not want a historical txns file that included injuries and the ups & downs to & from the minors unless it were an option (so you could still have historical txns without historical injuries and moves to/from the minors.)

I write this from the perspective that I do not use historical lineups. Two main reasons for this are 1) the subject of this thread, and 2) the fact that you'd often have guys on the bench who should actually be in the starting lineup (stars, for example, who are healthy in OOTP but who didn't start in RL because of injury)... Or let's say you have a must-win game #162 in order to make the playoffs. But IRL that team had clinched the day before so they basically started all of their prospects... Doesn't make sense to me.

01-15-2018, 08:19 PM	#2
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,345	Just spit-balling here, but short of having a historical txns file that includes 1) injuries, and 2) trips to & from the minors, maybe AI could - at the start of each game - make active 25 (or whatever the active roster limit that the gamer has chosen) of the 35-55 players, based upon first choosing all of the players who played in the game IRL (if that is known & part of the historical lineups file; if not, at least those that were in that day's starting lineup), plus filling out the day's roster with logical choices... For those choices, in order to keep the pitching staff from always having the freshest guys available (which would be unrealistic) AI should add most of the guys who are currently less than 100% rested - the idea being that if a guy is tired, he likely played in a game very recently and it would therefore be realistic to assume that he should be on the active roster. An ideal solution? No. More-realistic than having 35-55 players on the active roster? Yep. I'll note that I would not want a historical txns file that included injuries and the ups & downs to & from the minors unless it were an option (so you could still have historical txns without historical injuries and moves to/from the minors.) I write this from the perspective that I do not use historical lineups. Two main reasons for this are 1) the subject of this thread, and 2) the fact that you'd often have guys on the bench who should actually be in the starting lineup (stars, for example, who are healthy in OOTP but who didn't start in RL because of injury)... Or let's say you have a must-win game #162 in order to make the playoffs. But IRL that team had clinched the day before so they basically started all of their prospects... Doesn't make sense to me.