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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac
This doesn't stop people campaigning for it to be changed though. If the game does indeed work like that (and I personally believe it does) then it would probably require a rewrite of the whole stats storing part of the database to work correctly. Is that possible? Of course, but it's not something that can be fixed overnight. It's probably something to aim for in OOTP 12 at best.
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Yeah, folks will still campaign for it. And I don't really blame them, after all, it would be nice to be correct. But I just wanted to point out that all the effort in the world isn't going to get it 100% right as long as the game insists on characterizing it the moment it scores.
But I'm ok with it. Heck, I've never seen a computer game yet that gets it 100% right. And it's the same for everybody in my league. So even though it gets some wrong, it does so for all the teams. So comparing my (perhaps incorrect) ERA to the other teams/players (perhaps incorrect) ERA is still a valid comparison.
The game also seems to have a problem with an error that technically "gets erased" and seems to keep the error intact. For example, a batter pops up in foul territory, and the 3rd baseman drops the ball. Ruled an error, the batter gets new life. He strikes out. For all intents and purposes for the rest of that inning, that error is now completely meaningless. But I've seen examples where that batter went ahead and made an out (thus "erasing" that error) and then later in the inning the team scores and the run(s) be incorrectly marked as unearned. Perhaps those types of things could be fixed without a total rewrite.