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Originally Posted by Drstrangelove
In my league (settings are default), AL managers pinch hit around 41 times per team in the AL per season. That's 50% of the real AL in 2016 which was 84 times per team. If I wanted something "realistic" that "properly models how MLB managers use pinch hitters", I'd want the rate doubled. (I don't. It's fine by me where it is.) Through August (atm, where my league is), it was 518 PA as a pinch hitter out of a total of 73,000+ in the AL. Not exactly a rate I'd call a fetish.
Umm, so, if your teams are doing the same, you're seeing one player being pinch hit for once every 4 games. Here's a suggestion: go to MLB statistics, select Team Hitting, then do a split for just pinch hitting and post a snap shot of that screen or tell us how many times the AL pinch hits in a season in your league. Of course, I get it. Seeing one player pinch hit in a spot a human wouldn't a couple times, might make it seem like it happens all the time.
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I'm not arguing about the frequency of pinch hitting. I'm arguing with a setting that seems to advocate for pinch hitting when ahead but not when behind. What slider or setting do I change to fix that imbalance? And how did it get programmed in that way in the first place. If the slider for pinch hitting worked correctly, you wouldn't see defensive wizards pinch hit for late in games with the lead unless the slider was all the way to the right. And the only setting on that slider that should keep the AI from pinch hitting for my light hitting shorstop when down in the 9th and 2 outs is to have it all the way to the left. So how the heck do I get both of those results? It is illogical.