Thread: Pitcher stamina
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Old 01-28-2021, 07:03 AM   #4
Dutch Alexander
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The problem is that the stamina setting in league setup not only affects the days of rest required, but also how deep into games starters go. If you set this to very low, you will have almost no complete games.

I just think this setting is off a bit, by a day or so. If you set stamina to very high you see starters that threw 55 pitches the very next day at 100% rested and starters that threw 130+ pitches 100% rested after just one day. This recovery I think is much too quick and too abrupt.

If you set stamina to very low it generally only takes 4 days of rest to be 100% rested. What I would like to see is starters at 80-85% after 4 days of rest and 95-100% after 5 full days of rest. It is just not possible to find a setting were starters can go deep into games and then need 5 days of rest to get back to 100%.

Another thing is that starters rest too abruptly. The general patern you see after a start:

Day 1: 100 pitches thrown
Day 2: exhausted (0%)
Day 3: exhausted (20%)
Day 4: tired (40%)
Day 5: slightly tired (68%)
Day 6: rested (100%)

This is something that was changed a few versions ago. Before that starters would always go from slightly tired (65%) to rested (85%) and then fully rested (100%).
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