I'm ashamed to admit I don't know the intricacies of infield alignment nearly as much as I probably should, but I'm confused by this.
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Originally Posted by PaulH
... I have also noticed with the infield back and less than two out in a non force situation at the plate, the infielder will throw home more often than not on a groundball to him. The manager is conceding the runner at third scoring in exchange for the out at first, particularly on a ground ball to short or second. This happens with both the computer manager and the team I manage.
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Your first sentence here seems to say they're throwing to home in these situations, but the next you're saying the manager is doing the opposite? Which is it? And in any game situation? If it's early in the game, I'm wanting to get the outs (not getting outs can easily turn a bad inning into a terrible inning), but if it's late and a close game, then I'm more likely wanting them to save that run. Unless the likelihood that they'll save the run is very low, in which case just go for the easy out.
Do you feel like the game doesn't do different things in different game states? Do you want it to always do one and not the other, no matter the game state?
Even with as much as I play the game, I'm not super confident in this answer, but I think it changes it up on groundballs. My issue is with flyballs. I find the defense far too often hopelessly throws the ball to home trying to get out a runner that they seemingly have no chance of throwing out when what they should do more often than not in my mind is throw to second to prevent the batter from advancing.
I do think that there could maybe be a slider somewhere for how aggressive you want your manager to be with regard to preventing runs vs going for easy outs. Like for me, I like the idea of being aggressive, taking it to your opponent, but I also don't like the idea of being stupid aggressive so I'd probably want to place that slider somewhere near the center. But it'd be interesting if some teams were super aggressive or super passive in this.