Sim Algorithms Way off from early years

[Vapier]

Been playing 26 now for a few weeks, and have noticed the player strategy settings are not being picked up, and the sim logic is not near as realistic in previous versions.

Major case in point for player strategy have had all stealing and base running maxed for the players that have over 100 in speed/stealing. it's Friday season almost over and a couple of those guys set to max have not tried to steal base 1 single time. WT?

Also the latest game I have "Team Chemistry" for Red Faber to like 13% the guy for that year only gave up 10 home runs in s a full season, and is also considered "Ground Baller" meaning rarely gives a fast ball down the middle to even try to hit a home run. BUT the last game alone he gave up 3 home runs in 1 game 9 innings when his base line for 350 innings pitched is 10 home runs. WHAT THE heck is going on did you guys just go complete RNG for PT 26? I know there can be some odd games here and there but it just seems the sim engine has went koookooo ka chooo this year....

[Big Poppy]

cwhitman has a strategy video on speed stealing here. aggressiveness rating? https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=363157

[zevus]

Yeah, seems pretty hit or miss. I've done an override and set starter hook to max and starter will still be pulled w/o getting rocked & just pitching a normal amt of pitches.

I really wonder if some of these sliders do anything at all, like defensive settings (shifts, guard lines, infield in, etc), individual player settings for pinch hitting, etc.

There appear to be two sources of feedback as to when the AI is deploying these slider settings, those being Jack and ****

[Hwilensky]

Originally Posted by zevus

Yeah, seems pretty hit or miss. I've done an override and set starter hook to max and starter will still be pulled w/o getting rocked & just pitching a normal amt of pitches.

I really wonder if some of these sliders do anything at all, like defensive settings (shifts, guard lines, infield in, etc), individual player settings for pinch hitting, etc.

There appear to be two sources of feedback as to when the AI is deploying these slider settings, those being Jack and ****

Seems like they do not mean anything this year as they have in years past. It seems the AI picks and chooses when to use them. Just seems the last two years, since they were bought out that the parent company has ruined the game.

[Torgonius]

One thing I have noticed is that if I set a reliever to be benched for 2 or more games, and lock his strategy, the next game, he is back at 0 games benched, but the lock icon is still on.

[Torgonius]

I can confirm that benching a pitcher is completely broken.

Set the pitcher out for non-zero x days, lock strategy, submit, exit that tournament.
Go back into that tournament, strategy is still locked, but days benched is 0