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Originally Posted by ALB123
I auto-import modifiers and whatnot each season and for 1993, in League Settings > Stats & AI I noticed that for DH leagues the default setting is 6 relief pitchers...meaning AL teams have 11 team pitchers on the Active Roster. Pitcher Stamina, lower down on the same screen, defaults to Low for 1993.
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That sounds about right to me. That being said, I have no idea what the "Pitcher Stamina" values mean in the league settings. I get that it's a global modifier for fatigue, but does anyone know what "Low," for instance, actually equates to? I also assume that the default stamina value is factored into the individual ratings for pitchers, so that a pitcher in 1993 with a stamina of 35 would be a "low 35," in comparison to someone, say, with a 35 rating in a year where the default stamina value is "normal" or "high." Can anyone confirm that?
I'll also add that pitcher stamina ratings are, at times, completely baffling to me. I'd expect that pitchers who routinely started would get higher stamina ratings than pitchers who primarily relieved, if for no other reason than that starters are
expected to last at least five innings per outing. Even if they didn't in real life, they should have the ability to last that long. But that's not what I see in practice. In my experience, OOTP penalizes starters who don't start many games or log many innings by giving them low stamina ratings. That's true even if those pitchers didn't start many games primarily because they weren't very good, not because they didn't have enough stamina. Those pitchers get penalized twice - bad pitching ratings
and low stamina - for what is really just their bad pitching.
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Originally Posted by ALB123
I'm only 13 games into the season and things are not right, in my opinion. Each turn through the 5 man rotation, I practically need to throw 2 complete games otherwise my Bullpen will be totally shot. I use Mariano Rivera in a setup role.
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Well, that might be your problem right there. Rivera was a low-A minor-leaguer in 1993. And he was a starter who averaged less than four innings per start. He's a guy who really shouldn't have a high stamina, especially if he's on a major-league roster.
You don't say how you're playing your games. If you're only 13 games into your season, I'm assuming that you play out each of your games rather than simming them. If so, you might be managing your 1993 team like it's 2020. Starters tended to go deeper into games back then than they do today. In '93, each team probably carried a seventh-inning reliever, an eighth-inning reliever, and a closer, along with maybe a
LOOGY. Each of those relievers (except the LOOGY) would be expected to throw at least an inning. If you're swapping out pitchers like Joe Madden on steroids, however, you're probably going to run into fatigue problems with your staff.