[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Brad K

That's what DH fans would have us believe.

But hitting for or not hitting for or leaving in until he can be hit for or pulling him has wasting a RP are decisions affected by multiple inputs of varying importance versus both each other and in different situations.

Here's the thing: I don't look down on those who prefer no DH. If that style of baseball is what you like, then by all means watch and enjoy it. Me, I prefer the DH, so I go with that. No moralizing or pontificating necessary, just an acceptance that the rules allow for different styles to exist, and folks can pick what they like better.

There was a time when a ball hit out of the park was not a home run if the ball landed foul outside the fences; the pitching mound used to be 15 inches high; a game-ending home run sometimes only counted as a single, depending on the circumstances; and so forth. Lots of rule changes, big and small, have been made to the game over the decades.

OOTP at least gives the user to opportunity to craft the baseball universe as they see fit.

Originally Posted by Brad K

What kind of schedule?

The classic version, of course: 90 games in the division (18 games per opponent) and 72 games against the other division (12 games per opponent).

For two 7-team divisions, I'd rather see the 90-72 ratio preserved, so 15 games against each division opponent; for interdivisional games, one club played 12 times and the other six played 10 times each to reach 72 games, using modern-style home-away distributions. Not a fan of the balanced schedule the AL used from 1979-93 (78 division games, 13 per opponent; 84 interdivision games, 12 per opponent).