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Originally Posted by akw4572
Who's your manager, Bobby Cox?
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Over the course of the last dozen seasons, I've tried everything:
* Doing exactly the same thing I'd done during the season.
* Doing things differently than I'd done in the season.
* Using 7-Day lineups and micro-managing.
* Letting the AI run the team.
* Starting the players that did best against my opponents.
* Starting the players that did worst against my opponents.
NOTHING has worked.
BTW- In the majority of those playoff series, I had a winning season record against my opponents.
In that 2004 appearance, I lost my all-star Closer to injury in game 6. I had benched my lefty setup guy because he had gotten pounded in two previous appearances. In game 7, I'm leading in the 9th inning with 1 out. The AI then decided to put the benched lefty in to close the game. (Ignoring the guy I had set to be my Closer.) Good-bye ballgame and series as he got pounded yet again.
In a later series, I went against a team that had a rotation consisting of 2 stars and 2 mediocre starters (with losing records). (Think "Spahn and Sain and two days rain".) Well, one of the two stars was injured and couldn't play. So what happens: Those two mediocre SPs pitched the best games of their careers against me.
It happens every year: My hitters can't get a hit off a t-ball; my pitchers get used for batting practice; my solid fielders make inexplicable errors. I've lost playoff games to wild pitches/passed balls/errors that were the first for the player all season.
I've come to the conclusion that the game hates my team. (Which by the way is Team 9: I have a pet theory that Marcus has coded in a bias against Team 9. That's why I changed the team name that one season- to test whether it was the name "Bree" and/or "Cheese". But nope. That was the year I was up 3-0 and ended up getting swept the next four games. So it's definitely Team 9 ... Or my Commish trying to drive me more insane than I already am ... But I'm not paranoid or anything...)