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Originally Posted by RonCo
And, just to be clear...
Big changes to League Totals cause big changes to output in ways that are predictable by the Log5 equations. This is pretty solid evidence that the game has not clamped output to any specific level. There does not appear to be any counter-weight to ensure numbers fit into an overall "expected" number. If there is, it is completely ineffective.
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Yeah, see that was my whole point from the beginning. I was questioning whether there was some other "element" going into the equation other than the standard odds of a particular at-bat. When I read your lengthy, (and very, very good and informative posts about the log5 and league totals and how they interact), it helped me understand how the particular odds are calculated, but it still didn't answer my overriding question was whether or not there was another factor in final outcome.
Like I said, I always suspected not. And I understand AI is weak, always have. And like I said further if I had seen this once only, it wouldn't have caused concern. But I've seen it at least three times myself, and each and every time the AI pulls this stupid trick, the pitcher got a hit.
EVERY TIME. I'm not making that up. So, while I now see you've answered my question (no, you don't believe there's some other calculation involved once an at-bats odds are determined), I hope you'll understand why at least I was asking. If you played them all out like I do, and saw the AI make stupid moves (which it does all the time) but then in this one particular stupid move have it succeed EVERY TIME you've seen it, wouldn't you at least question it too?
And, like I said, after I posted, well read the first two or three responses. I'm not the only one. It really got me questioning.
Yes, my biggest concern for the game has always been AI. And I wish that would be worked on at the cost of everything else. But, when this was happening and it got me wondering about the possibility of this possible "internal regulator" if you will, then that became my biggest concern. If some "internal regulator" governing calculations was keeping up with league totals on the fly and "adjusting" odds to make final stats be within some pre-set range, then that's not a baseball sim I want any part of.