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Originally Posted by wodi
Another thing I've noticed over the years is the randomly generated players usually fall into the same categories.
We see a lot of extreme ground all pitchers but really no fly ball pitchers, I've never seen a made up player with a ground ball ratio lower than 40% but constantly see many with ones over 70%.
Additionally there are a lot of batters with very high avoid k ratings. This clearly suppresses the pitcher strikeouts as more randomly generated players enter the league.
Finally, there are way too many starting pitchers and not enough amateur relievers. This is one factor for cpu bullpens made up of mostly former starters.
I understand the budgets aren't gonna be exact. And that is totally fine. It's just a little odd to give all teams so much extra cap room in addition to their payroll.
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Everything mentioned here works as designed.
1) The number of GB / FB pitchers is carefully balanced.
2) The player creationg / development is designed to mirror the modern era (1993-2014), and not just the latest trend of high K numbers.
3) In real life almost all MLB relief pitchers started their pro career as SP but had to switch to the bullpen eventually because they couldn't develop a proper third pitch or were not consistent enough.