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Originally Posted by dishnet34
First of all, you're right; I should've been a little more empathetic. That's my fault, and I was only really reacting to the tone of the post you made and calling the game "Yahtzee" when it really isn't. There's just a lot of people on these forums that just go "This game/mode sucks!!" all the time, and I am just not a fan of that stuff, and I sometimes do over-react to that. With that said, I do genuinely feel your frustration, and I've had my fair share of bad rolls too this year and in the past (I have a history with Tom Hall and Satchel Paige). Bad rolls suck, no doubt, and I'm with ya on that one.
As far as defense goes, yeah, the defense might be a bit of an issue; not sure if you're playing infield shifts frequently or not, but I have that set all the way in my strategy settings, and while I'm not sure if it makes a difference or not, my defensive stats are kinda in the middle of the pack in High Diamond this week with Collins/Lajoie-Lindor/Morgan-Lajoie/Wagner around the horn on the IF and Aaron/Charleston/Parker in the OF.
Maybe infield shifts may be worth a shot to try to help the defense a bit potentially? I'll admit I'm not the most strategy-brained person out there, but that could help a bit. I also have Guard Lines about 3/4 of the way up, OF shifts a bit above the middle and Shift OF Depth around that same area too.
As far as pitching strats, I've relatively kept things in the middle and haven't really touched much, but maybe playing the matchups a bit more could help? I'm not sure.
Again, it's probably just some bad luck or something this year, and I know it sucks to say that, but that just might be the case for you. Hopefully some regression to the mean happens for ya and you can turn your season around.
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Update: Sheets and Fernandez have seen improvements at 4.18 and 3.88 ERA respectively, but neither can seem to finish quality starts, as they are 11-9 and 10-8 respectiovely (and my oWar is 3rd in the league, so my offense isn't the problem, my bullpen is 4th, and my defense is 3rd).
However, Sutcliffe sits at a 0.0 pWar and a 5.40 ERA with 22 starts (and a 5.38 FIP, so defense isn't the problem). As usual, my Chris Sale is the worst in the league at 5.43 ERA with 17 starts. I tried tossing Dazzy Vance in there for 1/2 of the season since he's rocking for every other team (but has never had a sub 4.9 ERA for me), but he's now the 2nd worse pWar in the league out of 34 Dazzies. Pat Dobson was playing well in the bullpen at 32 games played and 1.9 ERA, so I tossed him into the rotation for 4 games, and he lost all 4 games and gave up around 5 runs each game (about 5.2 innings per game).
I don't understand why pitching in PT is so absolutely volatile. I sold my Sabathia after 2 seasons when he first came out because his ERA was around 6.00 both seasons and my base Dave Steib was playing better.
My strategy settings are competitive and comparable to yours. My primary catcher is Pudge and secondary is Darrell Porter for his lefty bat. So catcher influence isn't an issue. This is HG (although I've seen my same pitchers soil* the bed for the past few seasons in LD and HD as well), so quality of opponents should actually make these awesome cards more awesome, but it doesn't.
The start of this topic months ago was because we were talking about a possible hidden field, seasonal modifier, or something. And just seeing the same braindead performances from the same players each season (players that play well for other teams) keeps pointing to something other than repeated random chance. If it's not strategy, it's not catcher, and random chance seems less and less likely, a smart person is going to start using logic and look at repeated patterns to make assessments here. And I'm at that point. Heck, I was at that point months ago when we started this thread, gave it more time, but these performances continue to stack and provide further evidence for that point.