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Originally Posted by uruguru
Great question!
The top vote-getters for NL starting pitchers, with their national popularity:
1. Sandy Koufax: 369,400 "Extremely Popular"
2. Dick Ellsworth: 262,898 "Well Known"
3. Turk Farrell: 256,226 "Well Known"
4. Jim O'Toole: 252,345 "Very Popular"
5. Ken Johnson: 251,199 "Extremely Popular"
Koufax as the leading vote-getter gets an automatic selection. I find it difficult to accept that the #2 vote-getter also gets an automatic selection, considering how poor his season has been. I mean, if Ellsworth were a borderline selection (let's say, the 10th best starter in the league), then maybe it will be ok. But he's clearly the 3rd best starter on his team, and the two guys above him weren't selected.
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Originally Posted by Pelican
I have seen this same thing in All-Star selections, and wondered why. Popularity seems to be the driving factor. (I attributed it to previous year stats, or career stats, but I think those things affect popularity. It's as if fans without current knowledge are voting based on reputation.) I don't like it, because it inevitably prevents a deserving player from making the All-Star team. And it could be his only chance.
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FWIW there is a setting to turn off popularity in all-star voting. The descriptor in the popup box says "How much popularity should factor in to performance when determining All-Star starters". Though maybe that is just the way it was typed up during the development cycle and it applies to how the game selects some of the subs too?
Going by what I see in my game sometimes high vote getters get in and sometimes they don't. I've never looked deeply at popularity, vote totals, or stats to try to understand why they were chosen. However I've seen enough questionable selections that I don't think it's the requirement that "every team needs to be represented". Like in the original post, some of these guys are from teams that already have a player on the roster. So, again like the OP, if their stats aren't great why are they there? I wrote it off as popularity, and since it didn't bother me? I left it at that. And let me add that because it doesn't bother me, I'm not saying it shouldn't bother anyone else. We all have different thresholds on what we tolerate.
Might be worth the time for uruguru to check his settings and see what it is?
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