Starter ERA vs Reliever ERA

[jlech1805]

I've ran this sim several times and continue to see this pop up as a subtle problem with default rosters and the league totals locked.

League ERA: 4.19
2018 ERA : 4.15

Starter ERA: 4.32
2018 Starter ERA: 4.19

Reliever ERA: 3.96
2018 Reliever ERA: 4.08

It would be neat if we had modifiers allowing us to adjust total on reliever vs starter. I know it is only 3% on either off, but early in the actual 2019 season we've actually starters have a better ERA than relievers.

[jlech1805]

At first this didn't seem to bother me too much but it just lingered on and forced to kind of bump my own thread .

While each cohort might be off ~3% the fact that they go in opposite directions makes the results worse. Last year relievers had an ERA 3% below Starters and the sim results I am getting are consistently around 9% lower despite league ERA matching 2018.

Oddly enough, this season Starters are out-performing relievers in ERA.

After more testing I continue to think reliever ratings are too high in this game. My guess is that the pitching in relief bump in the in-game engine isn't being factored in enough when creating stat based ratings for players.... or something along those lines.

I was able to replicate 2018 MLB Starter and Reliever Stats using the following:

1) All pitchers above 100 stamina receive 10% boost to pitch ratings, control, movement and +1 for velocity

2) All pitchers below 100 stamina are pushed down 10% in pitch ratings, control, movement, and -1 for velocity

3) Switch lineup selection to Sabermetric

[NoOne]

that there is a rabbit hole