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Originally Posted by battists
OK, you're going to have to help me out. I'm not much of a historical simmer, so you're in totally alien territory to me.
1. How, specifically, have you set up this league? Was it Lahman? If so, what year? Or, is it just a fictional league? What are the league rules?
2. Are you saying that teams in that era had just 1 pitcher on their rosters overall? If so, how would you suggest the game should behave in this scenario?
Thanks,
Steve
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I set my league up using the Lahman Database starting with the year 1871. In that year, and for maybe fifteen years afterwards, teams usually only had one pitcher and that guy pitched every game. A few times a position player would step into the pitchers role, but the majority of the time it was the one lone hurler.
The game should just accept this as normal. I mean, we have the option to set pitcher endurance to very high. In historical terms (and this was once confirmed by Christy Mathewson himself), this means that pitchers weren't throwing as hard as they do today, meaning they could pitch more often with no adverse effects (at least no visible effects). We also have the option to set use of relievers and closers to "very rarely". This means even with three pitchers of the roster, the #1 pitcher in a one man roster very, very rarely gets replaced.
So the game can handle a single man pitching roster (as opposed to rotation). Since most historical simmers initially start with injuries turned off (or at least set to very low), the chances of that lone hurler getting hurt aren't there.
Plus, it is a pain starting in 1871 and having to turn position players into pitchers just to play the game.