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Originally Posted by Carlton_Willey
I"ve played CM in earlier versions and, of course, OOTP, so I'm familiar with the numeric health ratings you're referring to.
Once again, the differences in the sports is why the percentages are not needed (with one obvious exception). In soccer, players go all out in each game and rarely play more than two games/fixtures per week. That's because they get exhausted from 90 minutes of running. No baseball player runs for 90 minutes during a game. Soccer players aren't expected to play every fixture on the schedule. Baseball teams often play a game every day, and lots of guys play every day. So they recover much faster than a soccer player. Even by noon of the day following a night game, most starters are out there again, if need be. So there simply is no need for an 'exhaustion' factor for position players.
In CM, players drop from 100% fitness levels to 75 or so at the end of the game. They shouldn't be used again until they recover to 100 after a few days. As I mentioned above, in OOTP every postion player not injured would be back at 100% by the next morning, so there's no need for the rating.
The exception is pitchers. They need to rest after throwing. Starters usually rest at least four days between starts and relievers need rest too. The game does show which pitchers are available and which are too tired to perform at all.
As to morale, again not using it for baseball is a difference in the sports. Getting pumped up is more a football matter--both American and the rest of the world. Baseball is more low key, and getting hyper usually inhibits performance and rather than helping. Again, the morale ratings of CM aren't useful for baseball where players are expected to start every game.
So those two differences plus the statitistic issues already so well-addressed are why the games are so different.
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Thank you for the explanation.
I am very new to the game of baseball, but aren't there some positions in which the fatigue factor force the player to play less games then others? Like catchers. They use to rest more games then, say, a 1B, don't they? And even a healthy player doesn't play all the 182 games, isn't it?