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Garlon · 12-11-2020, 06:28 PM

Recently I have been doing more testing with the game. I was noticing that top SP strikeout totals were not where they should be with nearly no SP making it to 300 k in a season. This setting for Stamina, though it seems odd, seems to allow the better strikeout pitchers to strikeout more batters, apparently keeping their stuff for longer in games. The league totals modifier for starting pitcher stamina will still bring things into place for the entire league in terms on innings pitched for starting pitchers.

As for the 1871-2019 game, I start in 1871 with 4 teams, then I add 4 more teams in 1876, 1882, and 1892. So after 1892 I have the same 16 teams as there were in 1901. When doing this I assign the proper team and franchise abbreviation to the teams as they were in 1901. At the beginning of the 1900 season I then turn on the option to automatically expand the league according to history, and in 1901 the game starts using the real schedules and logos and will carry out the expansion properly in subsequent seasons.

Setting Relievers to Normal seems to be the best thing to do for any season. The league totals modifier for starting pitcher stamina distributes the IP correctly between the SP and RP, so if you set Use Relievers to anything above Normal apparently you are just telling the game to make more pitching changes among relievers. If you set this to anything below Normal the game will be reluctant to switch relievers when it should. I have found that keeping that at Normal seems to produce better results. In fact if you increase Use Relievers and Use Closers together you actually get fewer saves from your closers.

These are the settings I am currently using for different seasons. Joe will disagree with my use of 4-man strict rotation from 1903-1935. I was trying 5-man highest rested for 1920-1935 today, but I am not convinced with the results yet. I want to use 5-man rotation but doing so has an impact on Ruth HR totals unfortunately. This is because there are now a weaker set of pitchers starting, making it easier for the rest of the league to steal some HRs away from Ruth. I may try again though.

Even though I do not want to use a roster of more than 25 players, right now due to problems with the game the computer is tending to leave some substitution slots empty at some positions if you use lower than 16 position players. This still can happen even with 16 position players but not as often. When this happens the starting position player will play every game of the season and stay fatigued and end up batting about .140 with 275 strikeouts for the season.

Beginning in 1993 you see that the average team was getting more than 400 relief appearances from their relievers. So you need to consider how many appearances you are expecting from each reliever. If you try to play 1997 with 5 relievers, they each need to make over 90 appearances and they will not perform well because of that.

12-11-2020, 06:28 PM	#36
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,209	Recently I have been doing more testing with the game. I was noticing that top SP strikeout totals were not where they should be with nearly no SP making it to 300 k in a season. This setting for Stamina, though it seems odd, seems to allow the better strikeout pitchers to strikeout more batters, apparently keeping their stuff for longer in games. The league totals modifier for starting pitcher stamina will still bring things into place for the entire league in terms on innings pitched for starting pitchers. As for the 1871-2019 game, I start in 1871 with 4 teams, then I add 4 more teams in 1876, 1882, and 1892. So after 1892 I have the same 16 teams as there were in 1901. When doing this I assign the proper team and franchise abbreviation to the teams as they were in 1901. At the beginning of the 1900 season I then turn on the option to automatically expand the league according to history, and in 1901 the game starts using the real schedules and logos and will carry out the expansion properly in subsequent seasons. Setting Relievers to Normal seems to be the best thing to do for any season. The league totals modifier for starting pitcher stamina distributes the IP correctly between the SP and RP, so if you set Use Relievers to anything above Normal apparently you are just telling the game to make more pitching changes among relievers. If you set this to anything below Normal the game will be reluctant to switch relievers when it should. I have found that keeping that at Normal seems to produce better results. In fact if you increase Use Relievers and Use Closers together you actually get fewer saves from your closers. These are the settings I am currently using for different seasons. Joe will disagree with my use of 4-man strict rotation from 1903-1935. I was trying 5-man highest rested for 1920-1935 today, but I am not convinced with the results yet. I want to use 5-man rotation but doing so has an impact on Ruth HR totals unfortunately. This is because there are now a weaker set of pitchers starting, making it easier for the rest of the league to steal some HRs away from Ruth. I may try again though. Even though I do not want to use a roster of more than 25 players, right now due to problems with the game the computer is tending to leave some substitution slots empty at some positions if you use lower than 16 position players. This still can happen even with 16 position players but not as often. When this happens the starting position player will play every game of the season and stay fatigued and end up batting about .140 with 275 strikeouts for the season. Beginning in 1993 you see that the average team was getting more than 400 relief appearances from their relievers. So you need to consider how many appearances you are expecting from each reliever. If you try to play 1997 with 5 relievers, they each need to make over 90 appearances and they will not perform well because of that. Attached Images Last edited by Garlon; 12-11-2020 at 06:36 PM.