[BaseballGOAT]

Originally Posted by dcordash

Just a couple takeaways from this post. Yeah, this thread has gotten off on some tangents. I've always attempted to keep it on track with the theme of the post in general..things that "take you out of the game".

This turned into all sorts of different replies and me (in my defense) trying to defend in totality what the gist of my subject line read. Yep it has gotten lengthy, but I'm still defending my initial statement. Just evolved from the Contreras trade..which it should of..to encompass all the other things that lead to my personal decision to shelf the game for the year.

Wasn't just this trade and everything that logically and realistically wouldn't have happened. And we all know it. Anyone with an agenda can create a rationale that it was perfectly normal..but it wasn't. But, that's beside the point.

This trade, amigo, was initiated with me using the good 'ol "shop player around" tool. Some of the offers were just ridiculous. I took this offer because I needed another starting pitcher that wouldn't cost a ton. Started into the negotiations and did what any negotiator would do..reached for the sky. Also needed a good young reliever and Caleb Ferguson (whom I hadn't hear of but had 3/4 rating) looked enticing. I asked for him too. "No problem" said Dodgers owner. I stopped there, because it was already an unrealistic/ridiculous transaction and I felt like I was cheating to the nth degree. Made the trade and felt somewhat guilty.

Of course, the 'ol statistics engine quickly raised it's ugly head and Gonsolin went .500 for me the rest of the season and raised his era over 1 full point. Ferguson, meanwhile, became lights out. Actually thought of using him as my closer in 2023 but, instead, decided to pursue Edwin Diaz. Added a bit of that history also in this thread.

This, mon ami, was a "microcosm" of what most of us experience out here.

In less than a full season timeframe I saw some of the most unlikely and, frankly, amateurish results I could imagine. Those were just the highlights. I'm not even going to get into all the other stuff that really doesn't make a lot of sense that also happened. 'Cause, I know, the gatekeepers are going to rationalize "Oh yeah, that all could/should happen because you screwed up a setting or you have to look at the big picture here, or just blah, blah, blah for the sake of clinging to a defense of the game results like a drowning man reaching for a straw on the deep lake's surface.

I've already replied to one of the Developer's and noted anyone trying to support this game has an unenviable task. It's all over the place and trying to reel it all in is not going to likely happen without a rewrite. Just my opinion.

I was a programmer and it's sort of a brethren thing. I can at least have empathy for those supporting this code.

But, folks like you that just start insulting my intelligence I have no empathy for. And won't be absolutely kind to.

Hey champ...
Let's be clear, if I was insulting your intelligence... I would come right out and do it in a way that was clear to you and everyone else on this board lol... if I'm insulting anything... it would be your motives. You want to attack the unpredictable nature of Ootp. I'd say you are lacking considerably in your overall understanding of the game of baseball then. Baseball is a very unpredictable game. Loads of things can easily influence a player's results in both the game and in real life. You mention how it's a conspiracy that once you got Gonsolin his numbers got worse... did you consider he's now in a hitter friendly park for any home start? Or that he's playing for a worse team? I mean come on... you can't cherry pick your arguments and ignore logic. We all get it by now... you've got an agenda against Ootp and no matter what's said against that agenda... you just change your arguement. All I can say is if you continue to purchase and/or play this game then in the words of my fellow southerners "You get what you get and can't pitch a fit"