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Originally Posted by x McLovin x
I respect your opinion but for me personally, I disagree. There have been plenty of hall of famers or borderline hall of fame caliber talents that had to settle for more marginal roles at the tail end of their careers. It’s just part of the cycle of a baseball player’s career. A lot of “average” players get pushed out of the league a little earlier, but those aging hall of fame caliber players often manage to find success in platoon roles, etc., at the end of their careers. I’m a Yankees fan so a few recent examples that come to mind are Andruw Jones and Eric Chavez. Amazing careers, both arguably hall of fame worthy, but they were just role players that sat on the bench more often than not towards the end of their careers. Some other examples a little further back are Darryl Strawberry and Tim Raines. They happily accepted smaller roles in an effort to get a ring. Is it not possible that some of the players you’re referring to in your case are following a similar path?
Mariano Rivera is one of those very, very few players that was elite for essentially their entire career, including when they were at the point of retirement. Expecting the same treatment for every player who had a good career is irrational. And “Respect” has no place in a statistically driven simulation engine.
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Some teams do hit sunk cost fallacy really, really hard though, and while I agree that implementing this in the game would make the AI easier to beat, it also strikes me as useful errors. For example, by the end of his Angels career, there was absolutely nothing keeping Albert Pujols in their lineup in OOTP terms: he’d had like 4 straight years of below average hitting as a DH only type. Any manager in OOTP would have benched him at least a year earlier, and yet he stuck around.
I personally would like to see more AI mistakes like this but I also get why a lot of people disagree with me. I also think scouting is kind of all messed up and nobody, not the AI or anyone, should have ratings calibrated so tightly, especially on a veteran player, that they could actually tell a 49 from a 48. In real life when players are that close, the decision on who to use comes down to other criteria.