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Old 05-05-2020, 11:58 AM   #6
dkgo
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Originally Posted by bailey View Post
They can't make you buy good pitching. Problem with the strategy is that you score so many runs it doesn't matter how bad the pitching is. You move up, just the same. If the diamond bats disappear near the end of the season to avoid promotion--that would be tanking.
You can definitely give up enough runs to make sure you don't promote.

It's a flaw in the system. I went on all year last game that it doesn't make sense to design the game such that people would prefer not to win, but the incentives are misaligned.
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