Pulling Starting Pitchers

[endgame]

I'm certain all of the algorithms change with the new setting, but with regard to starting pitchers a variable would be an additional change of pace. That is, currently, really regardless of the strategy settings 5 runs seems to be the number than tilts the scales and prompts a decision to bring in a reliever. This magic numbers seems to be the "shelled" figure; very predictably the point where the pitcher is retired.

Maybe a bit of variance in relation to what slow and quick hooks really mean to the individual AI manager rather than the more global approach commonly used.

[Sublimity]

Somewhere, someone made the suggestion of having AI managers with different styles, so you could have an Ozzie smart-ball style (once anyone figures out what it is) or a sit back and wait for the home run approach. I think this would fit right in with that. Go with a Dusty Baker leave them in there until their arms fall off, or a quicker hook? Someone willing to watch his pitchers struggle through, or someone who goes to the bullpen quickly? I like the idea of the modifiable manager style, and this could be a nice part of it.

[endgame]

We're on the same page but, as I mentioned, even the modifications we're using now don't seem to offer enough variance. If the styles are offered in 2006 the tendencies need to broaden a range, like moving ratings from 1-10 to 1-100 so that settings of 3-5 all don't generate the same results. Even better would be to have a coupling or mitigating effect with regard to the pitcher in question. That could make for a Favorite Son status for one of the starters, or a No-Breaks Jake status for one of the more unpredicatable relievers.

[Eugene Church]

I sure wish the AI would pull pitchers quicker.

I see where a pitcher will give up 8 runs before he is pulled...when he has given up 4-5 runs and then allow more men on base...pull him.

Lately I have seen an ungodly total of walks by a single pitcher...Dizzy Dean, with good control, walked 10 batters in six innings...another pitcher walked 12 in seven innings...no manager would go that long with a pitcher.

After 5-6 walks in 5-6 innings, please AI, pull him.

[kq76]

I wish the team and player strategies were more descriptive. That is, instead of "slow", "fast", or somewhere in-between hooks, it would show the # of runs or whatever when the player would be pulled. Better yet, I'd rather see those #s just be inputtable with a default. That way we'd have a better idea of what exactly we'd be telling the game to do instead of just hoping or thinking that hook X means pull the pitcher when Y happens. This goes for as many of the strategies as possible.