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Originally Posted by jeffw3000
Thanks for this. I have always wondered if mound visits help the pitcher out. I manage every game and have always used mound visits for 2 things.
1. To give my pitcher time to warm up in the pen.
2. To settle down my pitcher when he is struggling.
While I have always felt that #1 definitely works in OOTP, I was never sure of #2. I have always thought about doing a study like this but never took time to. This is probably a small sample size, but at least it is some real data.
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The manual has stated for years that a visit may settle the pitcher so there was no reason to doubt that it was a part of the game. When it comes to "how much" and testing? That to me ruins the illusion of playing in a "real baseball world". I normally don't even enter these types of threads as I don't want to know formulas under the hood. I don't want to know in situation X, if I visit the mound player Y's OBP will drop X%, his K's will go up Y% etc. Where's the fun in that? Same reason playing online is a no go for me. Too many want to play "OOTP the game" and not "OOTP baseball". Learning the engine is how one should play to these folks and, while I don't see the fun in that, they're free to do it their way.
While I don't care to know all of these things testing does have value as it can find out things aren't working as intended and lead to fixes we all get the benefit from. As for me testing would only be something I'd do if I thought something wasn't working as it should. As to the topic of warmup effects? I play out all of my games and I've never doubted they work.