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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
There's some tough balance. Right now, if you're in an elimination game, we do switch to an "all hands on deck" model. I mean, if you lose the game, there's no tomorrow, so you want your best pitchers. I believe right now we have it set up so that if you're leading in the game,we try to avoid using your next starter, but if trailing, we can use them.
But I do also agree that spoiling your G7 starter kinda puts you behind the 8-ball even more. I believe for next year we will at least respect your "allow SP in bullpen" setting even in these situations, and we will also look a little more at the logic involved. We probably should change it to only throw your SP there if he is way way better than anyone else, and you desperately need him in that spot.
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I agree with having that pitcher available as a last resort. I just don't think he should be considered as an option equal to other relievers available. Even during the regular season with the "don't use starters in relief" option selected, won't the AI use a starter in relief if it has run out of all other pitchers? That seems like what should happen in this spot as well. Also, if the AI is able to look at the staff and determine if there is more than one starter who will be rested enough to pitch a potential game seven, then it might be more willing to "spoil" the scheduled game 7 starter by using him in relief as opposed to if it is able to tell that he would be the only available option for a start. Not sure how programmable "forethought" is for the OOTP AI.
Perhaps even going so far as to have the AI calculate odds of winning the current series by using the game 7 starter in relief right now vs not using him to save for the potential start. Is that something the AI can calculate on the fly like that, in the middle of a game?