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Originally Posted by Argonaut
I don't know, and I don't think anyone knows outside of the devs, in which order the dice are rolled so to speak. Maybe they just roll them all at once somehow?
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I'd say it's likely they're essentially "rolled all at once." Ever see one of the old dice baseball table games? Those didn't check walks, then K's, then HR's or anything...they
had to be rolled all at once.
OOTP (and computer sims going back to Earl Weaver Baseball) I'm sure are more sophisticated as to how, as the old dice games had to have separate cards for batters and pitchers to roll on, so extremes couldn't be in the game (a pitcher who only walked 1.5/9 innings would walk more because it's either on the batter's card or the pitchers, where computers could combine and get their own probabilities).
But it's probably something like the formula determine the percentage chance of each outcome, including very rare outcomes like triple plays, and then the "dice" decide which, all on one scale.