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Even if the game allowed for inducing a rain delay or making it so you could end a game after 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 innings due to rain, it'd serve my purpose the same way.
I don't want the code base to be changed to reflect this idea AT ALL. ONLY the functionality to shorten games because IN THE REAL WORLD baseball games DO NOT ALWAYS go nine innings and in OOTP they ALWAYS do because rain delays exist, but no games end with rain.
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That was what I was thinking about by saying "do it badly." It would be nice to have rain-shortened games and rainouts, and if they put that in they could just make an option where you choose to force a rain-shortened game or somesuch. You'd have to do fiddling with the usage settings to get the AI to respond remotely rationally to the situation. (Were I a manager suddenly put in such a league, I'd probably go to a more-or-less all-bullpen approach; nobody ever pitches more than 2-3 innings at a time; obviously the AI would never do that)
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Originally Posted by darkcloud4579
The origin of this post is, if you know anything about cricket...you know that there are different forms all based on time. The most popular at the moment is Twenty20 cricket which is a limited amount of overs and outs.
I have a theory that baseball would regain popularity and would be better if games were shorter.
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I can't possibly imagine this being true. It's possible if you were starting from scratch people might like that better; but at this point the 9 inning standard is deeply, deeply embedded in people's understanding of what "baseball" is.
I refer you to what happened in the 80s when Coca-cola tried to reformulate their soda based on what people said they wanted. There was a lot that went into that fiasco, but a huge part of it was failure to appreciate the fact that once a brand is well established, people have very strong expectations for it to keep being what they are used to, and tend to have negative reactions to change -- even if that change is, by some objective metric, an improvement.
Pace of play is a much, much bigger issue than game time, IMO. I think most people want to keep the same amount of baseball and reduce the stalling and scratching and the nine pitching changes.