Pitching Rotation

[Eckstein 4 Prez]

I'm not sure if this has been reported yet, but either way, here goes.

The game does not adhere to my settings for pitching rotation. In my deadball league, I've got the game set to a three-man rotation, yet 130-135 games into the season the major league leader in starts has 37 - about what I'd expect from a 4-man rotation setting. Is this a known issue, or what's the deal?

[Le Grande Orange]

Might it be your schedule isn't providing enough off days for the pitchers to rest in between starts? I would think that without a sufficient number of days off to rest, it's not going to matter what size rotation you select, as the teams are going to have to throw in other pitchers to fill in when the 3 main starters are tired.

For a "perfect" 3-man rotation, that is, each of the three starters gets 3 or 4 days off between starts EVERY time so that a spot starter need never be used due to fatigue, there can be only 5 games per week. Having games only on, say, Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday would work. Using this pattern of games every week means the three starters get 3 or 4 days off between every one of their starts.

On the other hand, it may be a bug, I can't say. I just thought I'd mention another possibility to consider.

[Eckstein 4 Prez]

Originally posted by Le Grande Orange
Might it be your schedule isn't providing enough off days for the pitchers to rest in between starts? I would think that without a sufficient number of days off to rest, it's not going to matter what size rotation you select, as the teams are going to have to throw in other pitchers to fill in when the 3 main starters are tired.

For a "perfect" 3-man rotation, that is, each of the three starters gets 3 or 4 days off between starts EVERY time so that a spot starter need never be used due to fatigue, there can be only 5 games per week. Having games only on, say, Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday would work. Using this pattern of games every week means the three starters get 3 or 4 days off between every one of their starts.

On the other hand, it may be a bug, I can't say. I just thought I'd mention another possibility to consider.

Good point, and I do have this disclaimer: I'm playing a 162-game schedule with a three-man rotation, which is utterly ahistorical, so I wouldn't be all that upset if I ended up with only 10 of so starters per league breaking the 50 start threshold (never missing a turn in the rotation would yield 54 starts). That's roughly what OOTP5 was giving me - this is another case of some change being made with OOTP6 that had unforeseen consequences - I don't know whether or not that's considered a bug by Markus, but it definitely detracts from my 19th century league.

[sporr]

I'm sure you are, but I assume you are using the deadball era?

I know that there were changes made to pitcher duration to prevent pitchers from being started too frequently, but I thought that the changes only affected the modern-era setting.