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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
If you're playing with morale and personalities on, then some players might get a bonus for the day for high morale. But those are relatively small factors.
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This is another great point that I total forgot about! Now this story takes place in OOTP 24 but maybe still holds true in 25?
In one of my online leagues, I had a pretty mediocre pitching core. During the off-season, I went out and just hired a bunch of coaches that got along with each other really well, and they became ecstatic, their ratings were not the best but, they were all happy with each other. Then I traded off some disruptive and outspoken players, and that helped boost the morale of my team. My overall teach chemistry was ecstatic, everyone had high morale.
All of a sudden, a team that was a little over 500 with some ok, pitching started to play over their ratings. Yeah I had an ace, but the rest of my pitchers were mid to upper 50 pitchers. Pitchers were very limited in this league for some reason. However, I made one trade at the deadline, and my team, that should have had no reason playing how it did and where it did, won the World Series. I beat teams that had way better records.
But yeah when you said that Matt, that took me back a few years and it is amazing how good cohesion and team morale can change how a team plays and even individual players themselves.