4-man rotation

Cras · 07-19-2009, 12:33 PM

I am playing a historical league but with fictional players, and has the game update the general strategies, creation modifiers, total modifiers, etc, I modified the fincancials so that it makes more sense.

The one thing that does not make sense to me is the use of the 4-man rotation. I am in 1896, and teams are already using 4-man rotations. This seeems ridiculously early for this sort of thing. Am I right on this? And if so, is there a file that can be altered to fix this? I looked around and cant seem to find it.

Any help will be appreciated.

Cras

RchW · 07-19-2009, 01:26 PM

You can set the rotations in the strategy page under league set up.

Pronkytonk · 07-28-2009, 06:59 AM

I'm not sure about 1896, but 4-man-rotations were definitely used in 1901. IMO the change from 3- to 4-man-staffs did not come in one specific year for every team around but rather had some teams go with 3 and others with 4 starters if you take a closer look at the pitchers' stats of that era. Plus if the game decides to use them, it should be OK since a lot of guys who know a lot more about baseball worked on these things (btw thanks a lot for all your work !)

SteveP · 07-28-2009, 12:17 PM

This is true of other eras, as well. There was no defining moment when teams went from 4-man to 5-man rotations. Plus you can get teams even now who will use a 6-man rotation sometimes. Plus teams IRL can shift from one style to another during a season, for a variety of reasons.

However, the AI in OOTP is not sophisticated enough figure out when to use one style or another, based on a given team's pitching staff, so the game uses simple rules for the AI in all cases. Just something we have to live with in playing a computer sim.

07-19-2009, 12:33 PM	#1
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07-28-2009, 06:59 AM	#3
Pronkytonk Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 168	I'm not sure about 1896, but 4-man-rotations were definitely used in 1901. IMO the change from 3- to 4-man-staffs did not come in one specific year for every team around but rather had some teams go with 3 and others with 4 starters if you take a closer look at the pitchers' stats of that era. Plus if the game decides to use them, it should be OK since a lot of guys who know a lot more about baseball worked on these things (btw thanks a lot for all your work !)

07-28-2009, 12:17 PM	#4
SteveP Moderator Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,109	This is true of other eras, as well. There was no defining moment when teams went from 4-man to 5-man rotations. Plus you can get teams even now who will use a 6-man rotation sometimes. Plus teams IRL can shift from one style to another during a season, for a variety of reasons. However, the AI in OOTP is not sophisticated enough figure out when to use one style or another, based on a given team's pitching staff, so the game uses simple rules for the AI in all cases. Just something we have to live with in playing a computer sim.