I mentioned way back at the start of this thread that one of my reasons for running the GTOAT tourney was to reacquaint myself with OOTP, and expand my enjoyment of it. Up 'til now, I've only used OOTP for fictional leagues.
Well, it has been damn fun running this simulation, in what has essentially been an "out of the box" fashion. But now the learning curve ...
I assumed I could count on the game to provide
mostly accurate lineups and pitching rotations. But as the Homer Hillebrand incident revealed, that's not the case.
After starting Pool 4, it was obvious one of the Dead Ball teams was getting an unfair advantage by elevating another Homer-like pitcher to the top of rotation. Taking a look around the pool, every team I looked at was doing the same -- elevating a pitcher who ranked sixth or seventh in starts to the top of a four-man rotation.
Well, hell.
So ... play will resume -- but only after making sure all rotations include pitchers who statistically belong there.
I found that by setting all teams to be controlled by me, and then clicking "GM-only users are always in control of lineups," the rotations remain static.
Then we'll see how the AI is cheating with lineups.
