About setting pitch counts in a historical league

italyprof · 04-22-2021, 07:14 PM

I always manage a team when I play historical leagues including when I play random debut leagues.

I find that if I set pitch counts, when I finally decide to stop playing out each game and sim through a week at a time, it seems to help performance and to reduce injuries to pitchers if I have set pitch counts.

But my pitch count setting is completely unscientific: I look at the year of the player's age, see how many games they pitched in, see how many innings they pitched, divide, and then multiply that number by 15 essentially (15 pitches is the average for an inning pitched).

So a pitcher who pitched 30 games and 150 innings is 5 innings times 15 = 75 pitches and so forth.

Since I use a five-year recalc, though, I should probably be averaging out the five years - maybe?

And it gets worse with relief pitchers. The stamina ratings for all relief pitchers are single digits, which leaves one wondering if they can even pitch two innings at a time, on top of which I am not even sure if the stamina rating relates to in-game pitching or only the number of innings pitched or pitches thrown or batters faced over the course of a season.

Does anyone else here who does manage a team playing historical leagues set pitch counts? If so, on what basis?

04-22-2021, 07:14 PM	#1
italyprof All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 1,024	About setting pitch counts in a historical league I always manage a team when I play historical leagues including when I play random debut leagues. I find that if I set pitch counts, when I finally decide to stop playing out each game and sim through a week at a time, it seems to help performance and to reduce injuries to pitchers if I have set pitch counts. But my pitch count setting is completely unscientific: I look at the year of the player's age, see how many games they pitched in, see how many innings they pitched, divide, and then multiply that number by 15 essentially (15 pitches is the average for an inning pitched). So a pitcher who pitched 30 games and 150 innings is 5 innings times 15 = 75 pitches and so forth. Since I use a five-year recalc, though, I should probably be averaging out the five years - maybe? And it gets worse with relief pitchers. The stamina ratings for all relief pitchers are single digits, which leaves one wondering if they can even pitch two innings at a time, on top of which I am not even sure if the stamina rating relates to in-game pitching or only the number of innings pitched or pitches thrown or batters faced over the course of a season. Does anyone else here who does manage a team playing historical leagues set pitch counts? If so, on what basis?