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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
Garlon and I have had several conversations about this topic and I won't belabor it here. If you want to get more in depth, take a look at this thread.
I don't doubt that Garlon's recommended settings will produce accurate league stats, but the individual stats for pitchers will look more and more inaccurate as the user goes back in time. Having a strict rotation before around 1960, for instance, will yield seriously skewed results both at the top of the rotation and at the bottom. Likewise, having pitchers who are exclusively relievers prior to 1925 doesn't reflect how pitchers were actually used in that era. If OOTP can't get realistic league stats without producing unrealistic individual stats, then maybe the whole pitching model needs to be reexamined. |
I still want OOTP to at least offer us the option to use a pitching staff (we choose the number) with no bullpen whatsoever. For example, let us have a pitching staff of 7 pitchers. Let us select how many of those seven will be the primary go to starters, say 4 or 5 etc. Then allow us to use the Always start the highest rested feature and have the game stick to the our choice for the most part but have the option to use the other staff pitchers as starters as well when fatigue dictates. This way the starts will be spread over 7 guys and the entire staff will have relief appearances as well.
I get mad right now when you try and set it to a 6 man rotation, Always start the highest rested, because the game wants to spread the starts over 5 guys with the occasional start by #6. This too severely limits the number of starts by the teams 2 best pitchers.