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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
Just like real life, sample sizes and luck will matter. Just because a guy has a week of not hitting the ball hard doesn't mean that he's about to crash and burn.
As for the pitching stats, we do track every pitch. For stuff like the run values and x-stats, we do track and count them for each pitch, and add them up. There are some simplifying assumptions with them, sure, but our goal is to map things out.
And as I mentioned, we did spend some time to also make sure pitchers are throwing the right pitches in the right counts, and so on. There was also some of that before, but it was a simpler method.
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Excellent, Matt, thanks for your response. With your answers and today's video, I think we have a clearer idea of the usefulness of advanced stats. If the engine already operates at a certain capacity per pitch, adding a strategy slider for pitch usage for the pitcher would force the engine to follow a specific path.
I think it's something worth considering for future versions.