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Originally Posted by Garlon
If they used a starter to finish out the games then that is why they needed Braxton to make those starts historically because the starter had just pitched in relief.
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Yes! That's exactly right. But an AI-run team won't make that choice because the AI refuses to designate relievers as "emergency starters," even though that option is available. Making that one change in the AI logic would go a long way to correcting some of the problems that I've been talking about.
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Originally Posted by Garlon
That was the manager's decision and not necessarily what provides the optimal strategy.
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Well, you're talking about two different things here: historical strategies and optimal strategies. We can debate whether Huggins was better off using a starter or a "reliever" in save situations, but I don't think there's any room to disagree on whether Huggins actually did use starters in those situations. And if the ratings are supposed to produce historically accurate results, then the focus should be on historical strategies rather than optimal ones.
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Originally Posted by Garlon
What I am saying is that if you make these other pitchers stronger then you are making the best pitchers more average. There is only so much room for performance in historical leagues because of the League Totals that need to be met. I agree with you though that there needs to be more pitchers with higher endurance. I really pushed Markus to move the criteria to 33% but he only agreed to 40% and I needed a mountain of evidence to show him that there was not even an average of 5 starting pitchers for some teams in modern seasons. He did not want to make the percentage a user option in the game so he coded it to 40%. If it was 33% then there would be more of the types of pitchers you want. For example, those pitchers on the 1926 Yankees you want to have more endurance would have better ratings. I think there needs to be an option in the game to use 40% of 33% as the criteria. I told Markus that a pitcher whose GS is at least 33% of their Games Pitched still is pitching more innings as a starter than as a reliever. It was actually a significant benefit moving the criteria from 50% to 40% but I do not think he will agree to give us an option in the game to adjust it further.
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I agree. You can count me as a vote in favor of that option the next time you talk with Markus.