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Originally Posted by superdaws
.One, hard code a set of circumstances that would define what an ineffective outing is and then live with the fact that every time those circumstances occur the pitcher who got the win in the situation you had would not.
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How hard can that be? The game already scores the effectiveness of pitchers. Maybe it could be as simple as: the normal "pitcher of record" gets the decision, unless he is a reliever who (a) pitches 1 inning or less, with a score below a certain figure, and (b) is followed by another reliever who scores above a certain figure, or a certain margin above the preceding pitcher's score.
Of course, the actual MLB rules for assigning wins and losses to pitchers are kind of stupid to begin with, so maybe perfect accuracy in modeling them isn't the highest priority.