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Originally Posted by swampdragon
Face gives up a three run shot in the 9th inning of the opener to blow a save, and his ERA goes to 27.00. It will take 8 perfect innings to get back to 3.00, and in real life he likely won't get there until June, even if he pitches consistently well. If 8 out of 10 converted saves is OK, and 6.5 out of 10 indicates a problem, you need a huge sample size of save opportunities before you can safely say there's a problem. Second, OOTP has no clutch rating. It doesn't know Lee Smith from Joe Borowski. Accordingly, any ability a pitcher may have to bear down with men on base and get the results he needs is not accounted for beyond raw statistics.
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swampdragon,
The way Face is going, he won't get his ERA down till next spring training.
By the way, I'm not using any non-stat-based features of SOM. I want the results to determine who's clutch, not artificial sweeteners, so the OOTP engine will be fine for me.
Thanks for the deeper explanation.
Geoff