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Old 03-22-2024, 10:10 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by jcard View Post
Does the batter / pitcher matchup history provide any marginal predictive value? Even as shorthand for things like platoon and pitch mix effects, the sample sizes will generally be so small that using the data would imply a belief that the idiosyncratic matchup effects are quite large to make any findings worthwhile.
Unless something has changed OOTP has code so some batters do have more success against some pitchers, and vise versa. I'm don't recall if it was pitcher/batter types or individuals? Like many OOTP things under the hood, it may be small, but it is there. Again unless something has changed.
This is something that was talked about a very long time ago. Could be it was even v6.5 and before. Long enough ago I couldn't really say.

If that were to have changed the removed batter v pitcher information still did provide immersion, and would be nice to have again. IMHO.
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