Thanks for making it real - Page 2

Pelican · 08-19-2022, 04:21 PM

Could this be a TCR issue? I don’t even pretend to understand talent change randomness settings, even with lots of insight from the online crew, so I leave it at default. I gather that a higher setting could yield too many surprises like this, or at least a lower setting would make it less likely, more like Strat or APBA purports to be.

I personally don’t play hoping to mimic actual results, in part because I am usually trying to improve a bad team; but also because I like to try out “what if” changes like giving the poor teams more money (or the rich teams a hard cap), just to see what happens. But I gotta have sympathy for anybody counting on a stud reliever who just loses it.

Sweed · 08-19-2022, 06:03 PM

Way too much thought is going into this.

Please stop feeding..

Marinersfan51 · 08-19-2022, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Pelican

Could this be a TCR issue? I don’t even pretend to understand talent change randomness settings, even with lots of insight from the online crew, so I leave it at default. I gather that a higher setting could yield too many surprises like this, or at least a lower setting would make it less likely, more like Strat or APBA purports to be.

I personally don’t play hoping to mimic actual results, in part because I am usually trying to improve a bad team; but also because I like to try out “what if” changes like giving the poor teams more money (or the rich teams a hard cap), just to see what happens. But I gotta have sympathy for anybody counting on a stud reliever who just loses it.

It's not a TCR thing, the underlying talent of Diaz hasn't fundamentally changed, it is just the inherent volatility of relief pitching, especially relievers with dominant stuff and less than elite command. Essentially this exact thing has already happened in real life with Diaz a couple years ago and it has happened with Craig Kimbrel, Greg Holland, Blake Treinen, Adam Ottavino, Dellin Betances, and dozens more. Sometimes they bounce back, sometimes they don't.

tejdog1 · 08-20-2022, 03:08 PM

By the way... as a capper for this thread...

Guess who this is

Pelican · 08-21-2022, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by tejdog1

By the way... as a capper for this thread...

Guess who this is

Bellinger?

tejdog1 · 08-30-2022, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Pelican

Bellinger?

Kelenic in 2019 lol

Baconi · 08-31-2022, 12:33 AM

People really need to understand sample size, not just in OOTP but in real life baseball. Baseball is probably the most random sport on a game by game basis, hence why we need so many games in a season. Also why playoffs seemingly make no sense so much of the time. If you put the worst team in the league into the playoffs, they'd still have a feasible chance of winning the World Series just through luck and good timing, which is probably not true of most other sports.

08-20-2022, 03:08 PM	#24
tejdog1 All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Danbury, CT Posts: 1,651	By the way... as a capper for this thread... Guess who this is __________________ It's amazing How you make your face just like a wall How you take your heart and turn it off How I turn my head and lose it all And it's unnerving How just one move puts me by myself There you go just trusting someone else Now I know I put us both through hell ~Matchbox 20, "Leave" Everyone knows it's spelled "TRAID", not trade

08-19-2022, 04:21 PM	#21
Pelican Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Wilmington, Delaware Posts: 3,066	Could this be a TCR issue? I don’t even pretend to understand talent change randomness settings, even with lots of insight from the online crew, so I leave it at default. I gather that a higher setting could yield too many surprises like this, or at least a lower setting would make it less likely, more like Strat or APBA purports to be. I personally don’t play hoping to mimic actual results, in part because I am usually trying to improve a bad team; but also because I like to try out “what if” changes like giving the poor teams more money (or the rich teams a hard cap), just to see what happens. But I gotta have sympathy for anybody counting on a stud reliever who just loses it.

08-19-2022, 06:03 PM	#22
Sweed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Iowa Posts: 6,768	Way too much thought is going into this. Please stop feeding..

08-31-2022, 12:33 AM	#27
Baconi Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 218	People really need to understand sample size, not just in OOTP but in real life baseball. Baseball is probably the most random sport on a game by game basis, hence why we need so many games in a season. Also why playoffs seemingly make no sense so much of the time. If you put the worst team in the league into the playoffs, they'd still have a feasible chance of winning the World Series just through luck and good timing, which is probably not true of most other sports.