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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
I'm not sure offhand why this would be happening, but we'll look into it.
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I've been looking at teams in the minor leagues and it looks like it affects basically every team and their minor league pitchers. I'm not sure on the calculations, but for prospects who were only starting pitchers in the minors it is clear that the game is calculating the added ML service days as (GS x 6) or something equivalent. Relief appearances have some sort of fractional formula, roughly 2.5 ML service days per G appearance with some rounding somewhere. You can tell it is using some short hand formula to approximate instead of using actual days at a minor league level, because Grayson Rodriguez ML service days are stopped at 68 after he got hurt. (His ML service days is GS x 6 and then +2 for some reason)
I'm not sure why this calculation is being done at all or why it is going into ML service days, but this is what I have found. I would think whoever is managing the live start database is using some formula to approximate time in minor leagues to save time, but the calculation is also going to the wrong data field for pitchers. I would hazard a guess that it should be going into time as professional, but that data doesn't appear to be trying to be tracked at all from live start, as every player (even position players and major leaguers) starts at X years, 0 days.