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Originally Posted by Tinkerman
Almost as soon as I said this, my team's homerun production went weird and unreliable. Go figure.
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I know it's frowned upon, but besides the impact of team chemistry (
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=356080), I am convinced that there are hidden factors impacting team performance - on both the hitting and pitching side, and possibly even game outcomes directly. The variances are so wild that players lose all semblance of what their ratings say they should perform like.
This season is only halfway done, but the outcome is already clear again, as my hitters are experiencing another collective off year. I am leading the league in ERA, and somehow even have a run differential of +42, but like last week, I have no wins to show for it (.500 record, -5 wins Pythagorean difference.) Last week I ended up with -8 wins based on Rdiff while having the best Pitching and 7th best Hitting team in the league.
You mentioned BABIP in a previous post, but like literally what does any rating mean anymore? It's all over the place, with low BABIP rating guys having high actual BABIP, and vice versa. Same with CON and AVG, POW and ISO, etc.
There's something deeply wrong with this year's 'simulation'. It might all be down to Chemistry, it might not, but it sucks either way.