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Originally Posted by MizzouRah

You could go 25 with 8 men bullpens (or maybe like you do and tell it to have 24 players so the AI makes the choice to use a pitcher or fielder, but again, I'm not sure the AI is adept at choosing what's best for their current situation.. maybe you can shed some light on that?)...imho it's a must to have an 8 man bullpen.. unless you want a ton of position players pitching.

My guess is the AI has been tuned to make use of specialized pitchers more so in this version of the game, but that's just a guess. Couple that with the change in ratings and you have many SP that are just "average" and do not go more than 5 innings, at least from what I've seen. (it's like that in RL too)

I'm just trying to make it more realistic. The way you have it setup, how many position players have pitched in your league?

IRL, 26 position players pitched in 2016 and 35 in 2017 as of September of that season. I had 37 in July.. So maybe it's not that far off, but I want it almost non-existent in my league. Most of those IRL pitched during blowouts but in my MLB league many pitched in close games due to an exhausted bullpen not a blowout. Not to mention that last pitcher many times get abused and left in because they are exhausted and give up 4-8 walks because they can't hit the strikezone, it kills their stats.

It's cool we can makes changes though, this is the first OOTP game I've ever done something like this and for me it's made the game more enjoyable for me, but I can understand many of those who want the RL setting of 25.

After making this change to a 26 man roster (13/13) not one position player has pitched a month later. What my hopes are going forward is to only see a handful next season and those would be only in blowout games vs close extra inning games.

The problem with the 8 man bullpens are more directed at teams which use the DH.