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Old 05-29-2022, 01:27 PM   #14
uruguru
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Originally Posted by Ty Cobb View Post
5 of the 21 guys since 1900 who threw perfecto's are basically losers (Larsen, Humber, Robertson, Braden, and Barker). Mike Witt is a .500 pitcher.
Yes, and that's what OOTP currently simulates -- random pitchers getting lucky and getting no-hitters. No one is denying that happens in OOTP or real life

But there is a certain class of dominant pitchers, rare company admittedly, that are for whatever reason not reflected at all in the OOTP sim.

And it's not like the baseline luck of no-hitters modeled (properly, imo) in OOTP will instead anoint some other pitcher to get a long string of dominant games - instead of Ryan/Koufax throwing the multiple no-hitters its Johnson/Clemens/Seaver/Carlton or someone else.
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