Yeah yer right about that. Just cuz I'm laid off doesn't mean everyone else is too. Hey, I went to the gym though...got rid of some stress.
As an aside, I can't believe I had handed a resume in somewhere and it said that I had been a teacher. I don't know how the heck that got on my resume. :shock:
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by zonachoke » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:25 pm
As to the realism of * SP, goredsox is half-right... no one in real life goes regularly on 3 days rest.
However, almost every team will skip the turn of a #4 or #5 starter if it means getting their ace an extra turn on 4 days rest but with just 3 [b:6eabe72578]games[/b:6eabe72578] rest.
Back to SOM, the online version does not have "off days". In real life, a player on the 15-day DL will miss 13-14 games (less with rainouts).
MLB's 162-game season takes place over about 180 calendar days... or about 9 games every ten days. To better simulate MLB, SOMO should consider inserting off days after every-third 3-game series... counting the day as a day of injury rest and pitching rest... allowing teams with 5-man rotations to skip the turns of the bottoms of their rotations. Then it would be realistic to do away with *SP (or reserve the * for the very few SP who actually pitch at least once on just 3 days rest during the course of the season).
However, almost every team will skip the turn of a #4 or #5 starter if it means getting their ace an extra turn on 4 days rest but with just 3 [b:6eabe72578]games[/b:6eabe72578] rest.
Back to SOM, the online version does not have "off days". In real life, a player on the 15-day DL will miss 13-14 games (less with rainouts).
MLB's 162-game season takes place over about 180 calendar days... or about 9 games every ten days. To better simulate MLB, SOMO should consider inserting off days after every-third 3-game series... counting the day as a day of injury rest and pitching rest... allowing teams with 5-man rotations to skip the turns of the bottoms of their rotations. Then it would be realistic to do away with *SP (or reserve the * for the very few SP who actually pitch at least once on just 3 days rest during the course of the season).
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by bleacher_creature » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:07 pm
Plus SOM tries to match up to the historical aspect of the game to a large extent. And as Earl Weaver once said, "it's easier to find four good starters than five."
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