Actually, I did, and after the first 2 or 3 sims, I changed both teams' strategy settings to quicker hooks for their starters and bullpen pitchers, but it didn't seem to make a major difference. Bumgarner did enter a few of the sims in relief, though, and actually blew a couple games, so he was there. (And one guy on Twitter sent me a lengthy critique of the sims, telling me this wouldn't have happened, or that wouldn't have happened. He felt I should have controlled both teams, but I didn't have the time for that, nor did I want to try to guess what Bochy and Yost would do. Better that people second-guess the AI than me.
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And I thought for a couple minutes there Bumgarner might blow it last night, and I could say, "Hey, OOTP was right!" Ah well. Still, we initially said the series would last 7 games and would be really close, and it was, even though most of the games had wider margins of victory than we expected.
I will definitely refine this for next year. Markus said that there is a "big game" aspect of the AI in OOTP, so it knows how to treat playoff games, but that part of the code isn't used in exhibition games and in the sim module. However, he said he could add that to those parts of the game as an option, so you can set up an exhibition game to mimic a Game 7, or sim an entire series in the module and have the game treat it like a playoff. (And it would be an option, so you could also just run an exhibition game like a regular exhibition game, or sim a regular series in the module.)
I added a PT for that, so maybe it will be in OOTP 16.
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Originally Posted by TribeFanInNC
Guess you forgot to put Madison Bumgarner in the SF bullpen and set the strategy for Super Duper Lightning Quick Hook.  |