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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
Did someone say knuckleballers?  |
I'm a newb here, so pardon my asking, but are you the man himself?
Well, while I can see type-pitch effectiveness as a strong aspect of a fictional league, I think it would totally blow any historical league to hell and back. And be impossible to harness.
You can't have Koufax throwing a knuckler or some lame offspeed and not have him with a killer fastball. So what do we do for ALL the historical pitchers? It's just not feasible, at least not to me. And then you have to design a system for pitch effectiveness, and see how different historical pitchers make out under that system...
(he said 'pitchers making out'....)
But in a fictional game you could roll the dice and whatever a pitcher produces as stats - who can argue that? There is no historical basis for evaluation. So it's easy to implement in a fictional environment, but basically impossible to implement in a historical environment and maintain credibility.
I believe this is why both PSBB and OOTP (and perhaps others) essentially came up with the pitching system abstration. It makes me sad, but I don't think this type of pitch-effectiveness system will ever see the light of day. I dream of it, but only so much.