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Originally Posted by Cork55
I actually just managed to win my fictional leagues championship after 16 years of playoff frustration. The difference this time was that my team was not the best team going into the playoffs. They were the number 3 team and had a 92-70 record.
-Cork55
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I have simmed hundreds of seasons with just the AI running teams in various alignments and something that is a common theme in those leagues is that the team that scrapes by in its division with ~85 wins is able to handle the top teams over and over.
I also see many many times where dynasties naturally occur and have a single team win 5 championships in 7 years, etc...usually they are playing the 85 win teams in the championships.
So there may be something to this...or it may just be human perspective tainted by the magical 100 win vs. barely .500 team.
I don't think that there is anything inherently biased against the human managers because I see the same things over and over in my offline leagues. My 2 longest running leagues have had one of each honestly...I had a league with 110+ wins in 162 game schedule for 20 years straight with 16 championships. The league that I just stopped playing...I fluctuated a good bit more, but averaged 105 wins for 25 seasons. In the playoffs....different stories all the time...spent 5 seasons not being able to buy a World Series bid. Then next 7...won 5 of 7 with essentially the same core guys, but a couple pitchers that developed into all stars. Then the aging cycle hit...and while my 2 studs, Faro Ramirez and Shinsaku Kosaka, were early and mid thirties(4-5 yrs age difference) were still productive, but occasionally injured I had some seasons that ended with a straight 12-0 playoff sweep and others that ended abruptly.
Now maybe I should try to create a 10-20 season streak of 85 game winners and see how they fare....NAH!
I rather enjoy adjusting my teams to remain good as long as I can.