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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
No they aren’t though. Even if a batter has identical ratings vs lefties and righties, the pitcher has splits as well and so in turn, unless they’re playing someone with reverse splits (most notably pitchers who throw the circle change but also screwballers), they should have small splits in practice.
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that is understandable, but the pitchers have no splits really. or at least incredible minute splits under 10 points difference in their raw ratings. so a 7 for the batter regardless of handedness should play as a 7 assuming neutral handed park factors as well.
if we are talking a world where in the game pitcher splits exist and are more than minute differences in their ability then yes obviously that matters and that is what im saying i want to see. Pitchers to have proper splits (miguel batista having the exact same raw rating for control despite being twice as likely to give up walks against one side doesnt make sense) and batters to also have splits and then needing to make an informed decision based on both's abilities vs each side.
Currently that is not really the case from a ratings standpoint. The way it is explained It currently feels like i need to assume against a right handed pitcher who is a 6/6/6 against both LH and RH batters that my RHB with a 7 contact is less likely to get a hit than my LHB with a 7 contact in a neutral park. That just doesn't make sense to me and feels like it defeats the point of even displaying ratings.
But this is all way off topic. The original point of everything is just to see pitchers and batters in fictional games actually have any kind of splits like real life. Batters are all identical from both sides in fictional games. Sounds like it is being looked at so that is a victory.