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Originally Posted by Brian41
As far as realism OOTP can't even begin to compare with Diamond Mind. I was tired of paying the $20+ per season, but I guess what you pay for. I filled a legal size notepad with AI issues in OOTP that were simply absurd within the first hour of playing. 79 Tigers rolling through 75 Reds and 73 A's, horrible BP mgt, marginal starting pitchers throwing 8 innings of 2 hit ball on a routine basis, lineups all out of whack etc. Where to begin.
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So you're saying that bad pitchers can't ever pitch good games in reality and that bad teams never beat good teams?
If you think "realism" means that all mediocre pitchers allow 5-6 runs every start, never having good games or good stretches and that a decent but not great team could never beat a top team in a series or two (just look at any WS winning team's regular season results, all of them lost series and even season series against far, far inferior teams) then maybe the problem is more with your expectations than it is with OOTP.
That's not to say there may not be some valid criticism's of OOTP that are possible, there certainly are. But if you actually think there's an issue with the game and want to see changes made, you're going to have to step up your own game as far as identifying and explaining any genuine issues. If you can do so, Markus, Matt and all the folks at OOTP will certainly be more than happy to make adjustments where needed, that's their hallmark after all.
Clarification on what you mean by "horrible BP mgt" and "lineups all out of whack etc" would be a good place to begin.
It also helps if you understand that Diamond Mind and OOTP have different intentions. Diamond Mind is intended to replay single seasons so that you get almost exactly the same results as happened in reality. OOTP is intended mostly for multi-season replays and for careers and includes more variability built into the model in recognition of the fact that if we were actually somehow able to replay a season, simple variability and randomness would result in different results than happened in the first time playing through the season i.e. "history".
That model may not be your preference and that's fine if so, but it doesn't make the model any less realistic.