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Originally Posted by Cork55
What bothers me the most is that my key starters suddenly stop being aces and get pounded. My teams offense also dips as the opposing 2 star pitchers suddenly become Cy Young.
I wonder if the game resets something after the regular season ends that introduces the chance for a lot more variation in player performance. This would be akin to how players perform at the start of spring training.
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Originally Posted by Cork55
The thing that I really notice in the playoffs is how many opposing average pitchers seem to be come 5 star aces and how fast my 4 star pitchers start looking like 1 star duds.
As others have said many times in this thread, something just feels "off". To me it seems like the players are getting reset to the beginning of the year and that their season performances are forgotten. This might explain how great teams suddenly come up flat while lesser teams come up huge time and time again.
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Originally Posted by Cork55
Since the game does not differentiate between regular season games and post season games, there should be a reason why certain players repeatedly compile excellent regular seasons year after year, but suddenly get hammered in the playoffs year after year. Why are these players not getting hammered a lot during the regular season?
It's almost like clockwork with my team now. I could go 110-52 and dominate every statistic in the league and once the playoffs start, suddenly my team starts playing completely different against the same teams they dominated during the regular season. I could understand this a bit more if the game differentiated regular season and post season, but for a game that takes place 2 days after the regular season ends, it does not make sense. It's like the game wipes all player performance and goes into spring training mode where you always see good players perform badly because they are rusty.
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Cork, I am repeating these statements of yours in order to lend my support to them. Well said, and very descriptive of my own experiences and impressions. Frankly, I am hoping for some mention of an adjustment for this in the final patch changelist.
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Originally Posted by injury log
I agree that the game should be changed so that all teams are on equal footing.
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I'm not sure if this is correct. While every team in the playoffs
should have a chance to win it all, the dominant team(s)
should win most of the time. There should not be artificial parity introduced in the playoffs to create an equal footing that should not exist. I hope that is
not the case.*
*EDIT: The more I think of it, the more I believe this
is the case. If season-long trends are allowed to continue into the playoffs, then the dominant team(s) continue their domination and win it all too often to be exciting. Why? Because a computer cannot simulate a wild-card team heating up if it continues for up to 19 playoff games (MLB format) the patterns that caused the wild card team to be inferior to the front runners during the season. No, I suspect that Cork is right and something is reset in the playoffs to create an artificially level playing field.