[markmcghee]

Can someone refresh my memory on what OOTP does with pitchers who only pitched a few innings in a given season? I understand that the feature in question was designed to prevent the over utilization of guys who, for example, maybe pitch 10 inning and had a .87 ERA by drastically adjusting their ratings downward. Does it also apply to pitchers in the middle of their career who, in real life, sat out an entire year due to injury?

For example, I'm playing the 1938 Cardinals. One of my starters, Si Johnson, pitched only 15 innings in 1938 due to injury. He'd pitch, on average, 150-200 innings before and after 1938. Is OOTP going to slash his pitching ratings in 1938 due to his sparse number of innings? Or does the engine's career arc smooth over the missing season by interpolating an "average" season's ratings for the year missed by injury? Or for a year missed by military service, for that matter.

Same question for batters who only have a handful of ABs due to injury.




And the same question for rookies with fantastic ratings but who worked only a handful of innings in the year in question.

I used to know how this worked. Forgot.

Edit: I meant for my question to refer to the "Weaken Pitcher if Less Than X Innings" feature. In my example of 1938 Si Johnson, due to the fact that he only pitched 15 innings in 1938, will he be "weakened" even though before and after 1938 he was a mainline starter?