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Originally Posted by endgame
Good comments, SteveP. Earlier in my season, I did dial down - drastically - the pinch hit for position players setting to Never or within three notches of Never across the league for every individual team, and saw the improvement I had been hoping to achieve. In addition - and everyone will have their individual styles with this - dialed up or down (usually down) the use of pinch running to never exceed the frequency with which the team's utilize the hit and run. I thought that somewhat indicative of the management's treatment of their team's speed. That's my rationale, at least.
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My objectives are pretty simple (I tend to fall into the KISS camp, anyway
): 1) to stop the AI clearing the benches almost every game with PHs and PRs, which just plain looked stupid; and 2) to drastically cut down on the fielding substitution problems when it did this. It drives me
crazy to routinely see OFs or INFs playing catcher in the 9th or 10th inning. I assume the game design made it so that anyone could play catcher for just this reason (and, OK, it did happen IRL when all of the astrological signs were lined up in just the right way), but I wish they had thought first to cut down on the PH and
PR so stuff like this wouldn't happen so often.
Anyway, I'm glad there are tools in the game that allow us to get a reasonably good fix ourselves. One of things that I really like a lot in OOTP, is that it will PH for top players when the game is a blowout, so that does add some variety to what happens. OTOH, as we all know, the game does not make adjustments at the end of a season, based on who is in a pennant race or not, or for post-season play, or the like. That's just the way it is. So, do it yourself. One possibility is at the time of roster expansion, up the PH/
PR a notch or two for teams who out of contention. Also up the PH/
PR a notch for teams in post-season. That's one idea, anyway. Otherwise, my inclination is to leave it alone, because it does not take much in the way of extra PH/
PR activity to trigger those dreaded fielding substitution problems.
