Another pitcher editing...thing

dewelar · 03-29-2019, 12:58 PM

This came up in relation to the issue I reported yesterday. I have noticed that any time you set a pitcher to Retired, his role becomes Reliever, even if he was previously a Starting Pitcher previously.

Brief explanation: The league I run uses a manual draft that uses players from throughout history. I have imported the best season of every player in the main database (along with selected Japanese and Negro League players), but have set all those not currently on a team to Retired. When a player is picked, I then adjust their ratings to reflect the settings for my league (currently 1977 -- which means that, e.g., for today's pitchers I have to throttle down their Velocity and Stuff and dial up their Stamina, and do the reverse for Dead Ball Era pitchers) and Unretire them. This is why I wind up having to change pitcher roles so often

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dewelar · 05-26-2019, 05:52 PM

OK, so this is worse than I thought. It appears that when I set a pitcher's role manually in the editor, when I save the game the role reverts to the previous role. For instance, if there is a pitcher whose role is Reliever, and I manually set it to Starting Pitcher, as soon as I save the game his role becomes Reliever again. Note that this only happens if the player is a free agent -- players on a team, or players that get drafted before the next time I save the game keep their roles. This is VERY frustrating!

03-29-2019, 12:58 PM	#1
dewelar Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 276	Another pitcher editing...thing This came up in relation to the issue I reported yesterday. I have noticed that any time you set a pitcher to Retired, his role becomes Reliever, even if he was previously a Starting Pitcher previously. Brief explanation: The league I run uses a manual draft that uses players from throughout history. I have imported the best season of every player in the main database (along with selected Japanese and Negro League players), but have set all those not currently on a team to Retired. When a player is picked, I then adjust their ratings to reflect the settings for my league (currently 1977 -- which means that, e.g., for today's pitchers I have to throttle down their Velocity and Stuff and dial up their Stamina, and do the reverse for Dead Ball Era pitchers) and Unretire them. This is why I wind up having to change pitcher roles so often . Last edited by dewelar; 03-29-2019 at 12:59 PM. Reason: Eliminate the redundant redundancy

05-26-2019, 05:52 PM	#2
dewelar Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 276	OK, so this is worse than I thought. It appears that when I set a pitcher's role manually in the editor, when I save the game the role reverts to the previous role. For instance, if there is a pitcher whose role is Reliever, and I manually set it to Starting Pitcher, as soon as I save the game his role becomes Reliever again. Note that this only happens if the player is a free agent -- players on a team, or players that get drafted before the next time I save the game keep their roles. This is VERY frustrating!