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Originally Posted by Bobfather
9th inning or later, the player who drives in the winning run is the POTG.
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Always? What if that player committed an error earlier in the game that resulted in unearned runs, and those unearned runs are why he was in a position to now "win the game"? It's a nice "he made up for his mistake" story, but I'm not so sure I want to reward him for it.
Pitcher goes 9 innings, one unearned run allowed. Pinch hitter drives in the ghost runner in the top of the 10th to win the game, closer comes in to finish it off. Who is POG, Pitcher or pinch hitter? 90% + of the time you may be right. But there are way to many variables to make that a blanket decision IMHO. To be fair it would probably leave us with fewer questionable POG results. But it would/could also leave us some bad calls too.
Not defending what OOTP does now as there are many "huh?" results. Just not sure 100% "if x happens then Y is POG" results are the answer. I don't think this has been tweaked for quite some time. My thought would be they'd try making it better knowing there is always going to be some questionable outcomes.