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Originally Posted by uruguru
Why would I fabricate a claim like that? I have put thousands upon thousands of hours into this game. The purpose of my post was to sort of warn my fellow OOTP'ers that this kind of AI behavior was possible.
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No, sorry. I'm not saying that I don't believe that it's happening in your game. I 100 percent do. But my gut says it's a result of the fact that you don't have any pitchers in the closer, setup or stopper roles, so the AI is getting confused.
What I mean by hard data is some testing that shows what's happening to you happens on a regular basis in multiple games over multiple seasons, and particularly when a bullpen is set up in a traditional manner with a closer and setup men defined in the bullpen roles.
I understand that's a lot of work and don't expect you to go out and do that. My point about all the other users who are playing OOTP is that they are essentially doing that research for us and over multiple years since the avoid high leverage setting was added to the game, you are the first person to report a problem. I would think that if it's a widespread problem, others would have reported the same thing or at the absolute very least they'd be jumping into this thread to say, hey, this is happening to me, too.
There might be some improvements that could be made, but I don't think the blanket statement that avoid high leverage actually increases the chance a pitcher will be used in high leverage situations can be considered accurate in all situations.