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Originally Posted by funkadillo
I appreciate you pointing these scoring mistakes out. I notice them as well, and they irk me a bit. Once an error is charged in an inning it's like the game will take every opportunity it possibly can to not charge the pitcher with any earned runs. Even when they clearly would be in real life.
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Thanks, and I think that's exactly what the game does. This is perverse because the modern trend in scoring is to make sure the pitcher ends up with the earned run if at all possible.
Anyway, here's another super-irritating version of the earned run bug I just saw. Runners on first and third, one out. Batter singles to center field. Center fielder flubs the pickup, so the batter ends up on second and the runner on third. The game scored the runner who came in from third as an unearned run.
In reality, not only is that an obvious earned run, but I know from experience that both the batter and the runner who is now on third will be counted as unearned runs by OOTP, no matter how they score. This includes, for instance, if the next batter hits a home run.
In reality, the runner on third would probably be scored as an earned run even if he scored on a sacrifice fly, since it's not unusual for runners to go from first to third on a single. Almost certainly, that's how modern scorers would do it, although there is some discretion there.
The batter would be an unearned run only if he (a) ended up scoring from second in the inning and (b) would not have scored from first in the inning. This is the type of "too hard to model" unearned run that the powers that be don't want to bother worrying about. Part of what I'm trying to focus on here is the fact that the vast majority of incorrect unearned runs aren't even in this category.