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wallewalls · 02-21-2020, 07:08 PM

Yikes this thread. I am a stats guy, and no my idea of fun in baseball is not watching a guy getting a hit and saying to myself "he just contributed x runs to the team!" jesus, we're still fans who love to see our teams win. i experienced the same excitement when DJ LeMahieu hit his HR in the top of the 9th in Game 6 of the ALCS this year and experienced the same heartbreak when Altuve hit the walk off home run as the rest of the fan base. saying that statheads idea of excitement is to just crunch the numbers and say "player x is worth 1/2 run per 9 innings" is ignorant.

that being said, all I want is xFIP and SIERA in this game. I'd really to like to have a replica of the FanGraphs player pages for every single player, but I'll take what I can get (and I doubt that xFIP/SIERA will be in this game, which is a huge disappointment). My dream for OOTP is that I can have every major stat that is available in public circles (including all of the Statcast stats) and use that info to evaluate players because the reason I play OOTP is because I love team building and player valuation, and OOTP does this better than any other sports game. I'd rather have an expanded array of stats to help me make decisions than any improvements in 3D or a ballpark creator. That's just me, and I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but we all play the game a different way.

02-21-2020, 07:08 PM	#12
wallewalls All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2016 Posts: 774 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Yikes this thread. I am a stats guy, and no my idea of fun in baseball is not watching a guy getting a hit and saying to myself "he just contributed x runs to the team!" jesus, we're still fans who love to see our teams win. i experienced the same excitement when DJ LeMahieu hit his HR in the top of the 9th in Game 6 of the ALCS this year and experienced the same heartbreak when Altuve hit the walk off home run as the rest of the fan base. saying that statheads idea of excitement is to just crunch the numbers and say "player x is worth 1/2 run per 9 innings" is ignorant. that being said, all I want is xFIP and SIERA in this game. I'd really to like to have a replica of the FanGraphs player pages for every single player, but I'll take what I can get (and I doubt that xFIP/SIERA will be in this game, which is a huge disappointment). My dream for OOTP is that I can have every major stat that is available in public circles (including all of the Statcast stats) and use that info to evaluate players because the reason I play OOTP is because I love team building and player valuation, and OOTP does this better than any other sports game. I'd rather have an expanded array of stats to help me make decisions than any improvements in 3D or a ballpark creator. That's just me, and I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but we all play the game a different way.