Coincidence?

Ratbelly · 03-03-2014, 12:24 PM

I started a new 2013 with updated September rosters. I am the GM of the dodgers. I played probably the first 25 to 30 games and was absolutely atrocious. I was about 10 games under .500 and my team was dead last in hitting with .221 batting average. Pretty much every statistical in hitting I was dead last.

My owner was outraged so I was thinking that I was going to be fired, so I started simming one day at a time and suddenly my team started hitting. I am now 4 games over .500, my average has crept to around the .250 range and I am at about the 58 games played mark. Anyone see this. I know it isn't a large sample size, but I found it very curious that as soon as I stopped playing the games, everything changed.

Ratbelly · 03-03-2014, 12:28 PM

Oh and to add on to that, it wasn't my pitching. I had the top ERA in the league and was rated #1 in defensive efficiency whatever that means. I was literally getting shut out every other game by average pitchers for the most part.

RchW · 03-03-2014, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Ratbelly

I started a new 2013 with updated September rosters. I am the GM of the dodgers. I played probably the first 25 to 30 games and was absolutely atrocious. I was about 10 games under .500 and my team was dead last in hitting with .221 batting average. Pretty much every statistical in hitting I was dead last.

My owner was outraged so I was thinking that I was going to be fired, so I started simming one day at a time and suddenly my team started hitting. I am now 4 games over .500, my average has crept to around the .250 range and I am at about the 58 games played mark. Anyone see this. I know it isn't a large sample size, but I found it very curious that as soon as I stopped playing the games, everything changed.

Coincidence. I think most would agree that actually playing out games is advantage human. The AI in OOTP is good but it still makes in-game decisions that humans might dispute.

Now it could be that you are just a lousy manager, but we don't want to go there right now.

sandman2575 · 03-03-2014, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by RchW

Coincidence. I think most would agree that actually playing out games is advantage human. The AI in OOTP is good but it still makes in-game decisions that humans might dispute.

Definitely agree. When I'm simming games and start to go on an extended losing streak, I start managing the games myself. It's not because I'm Joe Maddon that I'm able to get the team going in the right direction again -- it's just because AI manager can't measure up to a reasonably competent human manager.

Not knocking the game AI -- it's really quite good imo. Sounds like OP's experience is fluky, and I bet if he continues managing games himself, he'll start getting better results than simming.

Lukas Berger · 03-03-2014, 12:49 PM

Sounds pretty much like how the real Dodgers season went. That's baseball.

le receveur · 03-03-2014, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by lukasberger

Sounds pretty much like how the real Dodgers season went. That's baseball.

they started winning when the GMs stopped meddling?

03-03-2014, 12:24 PM	#1
Ratbelly Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 175	Coincidence? I started a new 2013 with updated September rosters. I am the GM of the dodgers. I played probably the first 25 to 30 games and was absolutely atrocious. I was about 10 games under .500 and my team was dead last in hitting with .221 batting average. Pretty much every statistical in hitting I was dead last. My owner was outraged so I was thinking that I was going to be fired, so I started simming one day at a time and suddenly my team started hitting. I am now 4 games over .500, my average has crept to around the .250 range and I am at about the 58 games played mark. Anyone see this. I know it isn't a large sample size, but I found it very curious that as soon as I stopped playing the games, everything changed.

03-03-2014, 12:28 PM	#2
Ratbelly Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 175	Oh and to add on to that, it wasn't my pitching. I had the top ERA in the league and was rated #1 in defensive efficiency whatever that means. I was literally getting shut out every other game by average pitchers for the most part.

03-03-2014, 12:49 PM	#5
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 22,179	Sounds pretty much like how the real Dodgers season went. That's baseball.