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Originally Posted by ALB123
What season are you currently playing, scurvycure?
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Sorry, this is 1972.
By the way, one team I am kind of fascinated by from that season is the White Sox. Their real life rotation starts are pretty unique relative to all other teams: Wood - 49 starts, Bahnsen - 41, Bradley - 40, Lemonds - 18, Fisher - 4, and 2 others with 1 start. That means Wood, Bahnsen and Bradley started 84% of the team's starts that year. I set them up to use a 4 man rotation, Always Start the Highest Rested.
Once I started playing, it didn't take long to realize that a 4 man rotation setting wasn't going to work because all of the starters were often tired when their turn came up. I changed them to use a 5 man rotation but kept the Always Start Highest Rested. I am currently 79 games into the season and Wood, Bahnsen and Bradley all have made 16 starts (61% of team's starts). Their 4th starter has made 9 starts and two others have made 1 each.
Small sample size I realize, but overall that setting is doing better than what I expected in replicating how their starters were used in real life. I am curious to hear what other ideas anyone has to recreate unusual usage like that?
And in general, for any team that had one or two pitchers who started at an every 4th day frequency, but all other starters have a lower start frequency, is the Always Start Highest Rested the correct setting to use to try to replicate that in OOTP?
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"I am currently 79 games into the season and Wood, Bahnsen and Bradley all have made 16 starts (61% of team's starts). Their 4th starter has made 9 starts and two others have made 1 each." Oops! Major error on my part as I was only looking at active roster stats. Here are the corrected start totals 79 games into the season:
Wood, Bahnsen, Bradley - 16 each
Lemonds -10
Baldwin -9
Geddes-6
Frailing-3
two others with 1 each
So on second thought I have to say that those settings have not really done a good job of replicating the CWS real life usage for that season.
Closer examination reveals that in real life Wood averaged 7-2/3 inn per start (376 inn, 49 starts); Bradley averaged 6.5 inn/start; Bahnsen averaged a little over 6 inn in his 41 starts (he also pitched 2 games in relief for a total of 3-2/3 inn). In my OOTP replay, Wood is averaging 8.125 inn/start; Bradley is averaging 7 inn/start; Bahnsen is averaging 7.4 inn/start.
The thought occurs to me that, if the manager was to pull those pitchers a little earlier in every game, perhaps it would increase the chances they would be rested a day earlier and thus, when using the Always Start Highest Rested setting, more likely to get closer to the starting frequency Billy Martin used in real life.
One further note, the real life White Sox as a team had a total of 394 innings pitched in relief total for the season. In my replay they are at 167 inn pitched in relief at roughly the halfway point of the season. Again, small sample size, but perhaps further support for the proposition that starters are pitching too far into games to be able to replicate their real life starts that year.