My effort to look at what makes for authentic gameplay is not about season or career stats, except indirectly. It's about how closely individual games played during a season in OOTP compare to how games were really played in that season. Also, I am not posting these to raise issues or complain about game design (unless, of course, Markus decides to take more of an interest in gameplay at this level
). My primary objective is to see what can be done with the available tools to get more authentic gameplay.
One of the main themes of this thread is that having pitchers automatically sac bunt with men on base is both substantially unhistorical and boring -- as is position players rarely sac bunting in these situations. The good news is that this can be much improved with the available tools, for people like myself who care about what happens in individual games. I hope readers will regard this and similar threads in that spirit.