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Originally Posted by eldur00
I've been playing out games since OOTP8 and what you are describing right there is called confirmation bias (due to small sample size). It's a lot easier to nitpick everything in a game when you have it play out by out in front of your eyes. When you sim, you will always overlook a few things, which is normal because you're not as invested in it.
The game doesn't "know" you're playing the game. Your ace will just have a few bad outings in a year, like every player goes through. If the computer was cheating, how do you explain my 5th starter, in my last game, who is a half a star rating and downright horrible, played 7 innings of no hit ball ? He had an ERA of over 8 before the game and more BB than Ks, yet in 7 innings he had no hit, 1 BB and 4 Ks.
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I know that every pitcher has an occasional bad game now and then. And yes, I too have had my mediocre #5 pitcher pitch like Cy Young in a game now and then when I played it out as opposed to simming. But did he imitate Cy Young in virtually EVERY game you played out ... and then resort back to being horrible whenever you simmed?
I just find it interesting ... somehow I can randomly choose to play out five out of thirty starts by my ace. And I choose the exact five games that he has "bad" outings? I can certainly see once in a while having a bad game. But this happens league ... after league ... after league.
This is like the big-time pitcher who is an absolute ace ... until he pitches a game in prime time on national TV. My guy "chokes" whenever games are played out instead if being simmed.