Realistic settings for WP/PB

mytreds · 04-25-2020, 08:42 PM

I play out every game, and every game has at least 1 wild pitch or pass ball. If this were the minors, I'd understand, but in the majors, it doesn't happen everyday. Regardless of people opinions, I'm not here to discuss the rate of WP/PB IRL, but simply asking how to tune these occurrences down in game for my personal taste when playing. Cheers!

henry296 · 04-25-2020, 08:56 PM

Last year there were 0.43 wild pitches/passed balls per game or about 2,000 for the season. Check your league statistics and see what your total looks like and if your team is in the lead by a wide margin on the Team Statistics Page. If you want to change it go to the Stats & AI section of the League Settings.

NoOne · 04-25-2020, 09:08 PM

first, have a target... then start tracking WP/PB each year... larger the sample the better, so don't split it per sub league, unless some non-modifier rule/setting i can't think about would cause a major difference in these stats.

adjust the League Total Modifier for each.

one note about these 2... they aren't highly resolved... you could change an ltm many points and see no change beyond normal volatility.

i used to run 100+ year sims to hone down some baselines for modifiers / target stats. the modifiers couldn't hit my taget, so i had to have one +30to50 and one -30to50 to make the pitching mistakes add up to the right total, if the individual stats did not. i don't recall if it was both or just one... but every .050 to .1000 points (a large gap) it would change by a large chunk... it's not a proportional change to the modifier like most other stats.

no other modifiers should really impact these too much. so, if you want to reduce 10% or increase 10%, do that to the current modifier and it should translate well even if you change other modifiers at the same time.... likely have to move it significantly more or less for this particular modifier, and don't expect to hit a target -- which you won't really know without a ton of seasons.

figure it'll swing +/- 10% of the current total even if you keep the same Modifier in any given year with 30T and 162gp.

unless something else you modifiy changes # of pitches thrown per game in some drastic way. this should remain proportional to that regardless of most other factors.

04-25-2020, 08:42 PM	#1
mytreds All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2019 Posts: 1,183	Realistic settings for WP/PB I play out every game, and every game has at least 1 wild pitch or pass ball. If this were the minors, I'd understand, but in the majors, it doesn't happen everyday. Regardless of people opinions, I'm not here to discuss the rate of WP/PB IRL, but simply asking how to tune these occurrences down in game for my personal taste when playing. Cheers!

04-25-2020, 09:08 PM	#3
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	first, have a target... then start tracking WP/PB each year... larger the sample the better, so don't split it per sub league, unless some non-modifier rule/setting i can't think about would cause a major difference in these stats. adjust the League Total Modifier for each. one note about these 2... they aren't highly resolved... you could change an ltm many points and see no change beyond normal volatility. i used to run 100+ year sims to hone down some baselines for modifiers / target stats. the modifiers couldn't hit my taget, so i had to have one +30to50 and one -30to50 to make the pitching mistakes add up to the right total, if the individual stats did not. i don't recall if it was both or just one... but every .050 to .1000 points (a large gap) it would change by a large chunk... it's not a proportional change to the modifier like most other stats. no other modifiers should really impact these too much. so, if you want to reduce 10% or increase 10%, do that to the current modifier and it should translate well even if you change other modifiers at the same time.... likely have to move it significantly more or less for this particular modifier, and don't expect to hit a target -- which you won't really know without a ton of seasons. figure it'll swing +/- 10% of the current total even if you keep the same Modifier in any given year with 30T and 162gp. unless something else you modifiy changes # of pitches thrown per game in some drastic way. this should remain proportional to that regardless of most other factors. Last edited by NoOne; 04-25-2020 at 09:11 PM.

04-25-2020, 08:56 PM	#2
henry296 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Baltimore, MD Posts: 514	Last year there were 0.43 wild pitches/passed balls per game or about 2,000 for the season. Check your league statistics and see what your total looks like and if your team is in the lead by a wide margin on the Team Statistics Page. If you want to change it go to the Stats & AI section of the League Settings.