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Originally Posted by md40022
All of my running is done via the R&H and my success rate in OOTP25 is 62.5%, which is not particularly good at all.
I play with the real Cubs roster. There's not a lot of speed there, admittedly. And like I said before, I am probably more aggressive than the average manager meaning maybe I run on a pitcher / catcher combo that I shouldn't run on a little too often...... 62.5% is not a good success rate though.
You're at 91.9%. You do have a much faster team. Knowing that we both use the R&H as our only method of running, would I be at 91.9% and be able to steal on demand too with a faster roster? I don't know. But I will say for a fact that I absolutely do *NOT* consider the run & hit button to be a cheat code in my experience hahaha.
You mentioned you're still playing OOTP22..... maybe this is something that was specific to 22 and/or got cleaned up a little bit at some point after 22?
Obviously we can all play however we want, but if I was seeing your results I would be looking at a different ways of playing - whether it was changing modifiers to make stealing harder or just simply limiting myself with it. Personally, if I found a cheat to the game I would do everything I could to avoid the cheat.
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If you run & hit with anything below 65 steal rating, they will suck and it won't be worth it. Baseball analytics showed long ago that low success rates cost runs, so I almost never run & hit with anyone below 65.
My original question for you was whether there were ANY pitch outs on 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 2-2 or 3-2 in version 25. My second question was whether run & hit and steal had same success rate. I sincerely hope that both of these were somewhat adjusted in 25 (especially the second).
If not, I strongly suspect that any 70 steal rating guy can steal left and right at an 80-90% clip if you run & hit on one of those counts above and it is still a cheat code. You just may not be exploiting it.
Like I said, I wouldn't control stealing (or perhaps even play out games anymore) if I started a new sim. I do like making pitching decisions, though, so I probably still would play it out.