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Originally Posted by Qeltar
I do pay attention, but he wasn't drafted, he was traded, had no history and was "durable."
Honestly I think I just need to give this game a break for a while. It's gotten extremely frustrating lately, nothing I do in-game works, nobody can pitch, nobody can hit. I put out pitchers with great ratings and they get shelled, and I face pitchers with crap ratings and get shut out.
As a manager I can't do anything about it, and as a GM, there's basically nothing to do in August but wait for September callups to play around with some prospects. This team played over its heads for a while but has now come back to earth.. hard. I guess I had hoped I had made real, permanent improvements but my expectations were probably set too high based on some early streaks that couldn't continue.
My owner wanted 81-81 for the year. My more realistic goal was 65-97. We are currently 58-58. Given all the turnover, lousy players and injuries, we are probably doing better than we should be.
But I'm perfectionistic and impatient.. a bad combination for this job.  |
if it's not fun, take a break for sure.. re-charge the batteries..
about the durability -- tie-breaker for similar quality players... if talent is immensely better it can be worth the risk of course.
if he was durable, just bad luck. if you make your entire MiL "1" for each proneness, you still get a few injuries each year. durable can be much higher than 1/200, i'm sure... it's a steeper curve at the low-end -- much more durable out of proportion is what i mean. just a slight tick up to 50/200 or 100/200 and i bet it goes from a few injuries to a very significant increase in injuries.
side note, first year i bought ootp, i put it down for nearly 6 months before playing again. i was frustrated over different stuff related to setting up a league, but similar causes as you mention. not recommending you put it donw that long..m aybe a week or two will do.
either now or later, play with 100% accuracy for a few seasons at least. if a combination of skillsets you use don't work well with pitchers, do somethign different. even track other players. figure out of the 71-80/80 guys which are the truly good ones etc... then same for 61-70 etc. or larger ranges are probably better. 15-20, but the top range shuld be smaller.