I'm doing some data logging right now to see how often the AI will sub in. I'll post updates the farther along I get. The league is based on a 1901 league, no injuries, all substitutions are set to VERY RARELY, including pitchers which I'm not counting.
Here's the stats so far, after 217 games
- 8.5 Innings
- 80 games, average of 5.038 subs, standard deviation of 2.91
- 9 innings
- 112 games, avg 7.018 subs, stdev of 3.904
- 10 innings
- x>11 innings
What does this mean? There's an overall average of 7.24 subs/game regardless of the number of innings. Based on this small sample set the biggest problem is jumping into extra innings. As long as the game stays in regulation, the number of subs seems okay for a normal setting. Still, IMO "very rarely" should mean just that, and 3-4 subs per team per game doesn't seem very rare to me.