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Originally Posted by Rain King
They are saying the players have split differences. They just seem to think the differences are not large enough.
IMO, the bigger question is what the stats play out to. Can anyone show issues league wide with actual platoon splits? Unfortunately, I don't think it is easy to get those numbers league-wide within the app...would probably need to export stats and do some work in excel.
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that's interesting, it may like you said actually work out statistically. But when playing the games out when a LH is 8/7/7 against lefties and 8/7/6 against righties (and pretty much every pitcher is like this, one of the attributes is only 1 point different) it really doesn't make you feel like there's much difference in your decision making for platoons.
If you go into the player editor and run real life players actual stats over 3 or 5 year runs and create ratings based off of those for lefty and righty you see wildly divided split attributes for many pitchers. many pitchers end up with all star caliber ability vs their better side and average quality against their worse side.the game rarely (or never from what i see) gives you anyone like that, let alone many players that have big split differences in ratings.
For instance, for historical sake: Miguel batista in a 2007 game with 3 year ratings. His control is a 5 both vs L and R.
In real life over the 2006-2008 seasons his walk rate was 13.5% vs lefties, 7.7% vs righties
The hard ratings for his control are 345 vs L and 347 vs R
His stuff only has a 5 point diff and his movement a 6 point diff.
Maybe there are limits with historical to do this right but in fictional it would be nice to see real life split abilities, in batting as well and people having some crazy differences on the mound or at the plate like Adam Lind and Lou Whitaker did in real life (but they also have ratings that dont indicate they are that much better in historical games)