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Originally Posted by Dyzalot
No not this. The game has evolved over time. Maybe if you said all MLB managerial decisions for the last ten years I'd agree. And when the AI has a marginal decesion then he should default to what is standard in the current MLB. Again, I play this game to simulate modern MLB not to play a video game and min/max my optimal decisions.
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Simulate is not recreate really there is an element of algorithmic variability which creates playability if you want perfection re-read the box scores. The game has to be playable and replayable - in almost every conceivable historical context which is what it has achieved and continues to perfect on. Tweak by tweak it gets better, patch by patch release by release. It is not a simple math equation to plug into Excel and get a 3-2 score on May 17th 1967 when history told us it was 3-2. It might be rained out. That wasn't historical either, hell we can argue about weather patterns and El Nino in 1967 then, that's not the point - its a monument to baseball sim in much the same vein as any other wonder of the world.
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