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Originally Posted by ColumbusJets
A few things to consider. The devs didn't respond in the linked thread. Answers in the thread are anecdotal. It is near impossible to test because there is so much noise in the signal. Something the devs have repeated said is that outcomes are determined per PA not per pitch. In a recent discussion about pitch location the majority of the people involved said it was irrelevant and the devs didn't post to contradict this.
Nothing conclusive here but taken as a whole it seems somewhat more likely than not that the feature isn't functional.
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I think it's functional, but not in the way people think. There are pitch around sliders, so I imagine that this is basically overwriting the that those sliders would also influence. I imagine that one of the inputs to deciding an output outcome is whether or not it pitches around or to batter.
So I think this has two options. One, pitch by pitch uses the first input and just delays the outcome. Or two, you actually get an outcome at each pitch (ie you select pitch around, it says ball 1, but that's actually just showing what the first pitch of an already decided 3 run homer is), and then when you decide what pitch 2 is going to be it actually recalculates the whole thing again and gives you a different outcome (so maybe it's now 1-1 on an outcome that will be a 1-2 double play ball), if this makes sense.