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Please make the hot\cold system optional. 3 months of a player being "cold" is too much.

Most of the time it doesn't seem to work anyway. Hot players can't buy a hit and hot pitchers can't seem to get anyone out.

Always please make a toggle for the creepy "here we go now" guy.

You've actually seen this? 3 months?

You can usually manage a hitter out of a cold slump by just playing him in very favorable match ups. Sit him until you match up against a good L vs. R split and/or an opposing starting pitcher who isn't particularly good and you can usually snap a hitter out of a cold streak within a few games that way.

Same thing with a relief pitcher. Only use him in a really favorable situation, facing the opposing team's 7,8 9 hitters or something. 2 or 3 times of doing this and you can usually get him to bounce back.

Starting pitchers are admittedly a little more tricky if you just keep rolling them out there every 5th day..... Again though, if you have a decent long reliever maybe incorporate him as a 6th starter and/or incorporate the long reliever into a spot-start to try and situationally get your cold guy into a more favorable matchup.

A lot of how long a cold streak lasts falls on the manager.

I've never experienced anything near 3 months, even when doing absolutely nothing about it. Especially then. I'm not saying players don't have crappy years, but as far as the game signaling that they are habitually underperforming (not sure how much that status truly means).

Very impressive outlier, though I imagine crazy annoying.

Another tip for a cold starting pitcher..... if you can get 4 or 5 good innings out of him during a given start, pull him right then and there. Don't let him go through the batting order again and get hit a little bit by leaving him in a bit too long. Take those 4 good innings and get him the heck out of there. You're going to get him out of the cold streak with 4 IP, 0 ER faster than you would with 5.1 IP, 3 ER

Being an "old school" mentality guy who tries to push his starters deeper in games than the more current mindset was a big problem for me with trying to get starting pitchers out of cold slumps.... but I've learned you have to adjust the way you manage a bit when trying to use those guys.

This topic does normally come up year to year and the devs have confirmed an uptick or downtick in ratings when a player is in a hot or cold status.... so there is actual meaning behind it.

Yes, Starlin Castro (2015 Cubs) went cold in late April, all of May and June, and now two weeks into July. If he gets a couple of hits and the cold symbol goes away, as soon as he makes an out in the next game, he goes cold again.