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Old 10-20-2009, 10:53 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Hopefully the game itself (AI) really gives a damn what pitches are thrown and that it has some intel. Perhaps not throwing a breaking ball with bases loaded, full count, the game on the line and to boot that pitcher has a very bad breaking ball.
How is this unrealistic? Did you see Atlanta's Mark Wohlers throw a slider instead of his 100-mph fastball to Jim Leyritz, who had 2 strikes on him, during a critical at-bat in Game 4 of the 1996 World Series? This crap actually does happen in baseball.

Loopy decisions get made in baseball all the time, so an occasionally loopy AI is quite realistic. Now, if the AI was perfect and didn't do something randomly loopy in OOTP, that would be unrealistic. Even Earl Weaver did loopy stuff on occasion.
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