by Valen » Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:27 pm
Difference in what voovits did and what I did was he filled the card with strikeouts while I filled it with double plays. Figured the double plays would give the max advantage as it would create extra outs from lucky singles/walks off hitters cards early in innings.
But note either method of creating the ultimate pitcher resulted in a large number of HRs and BBs.
Yes his method produced a high number of stikeouts. That should not be surprising. The model does allow for extreme strikeout performances as you can add additional strikeouts to even the best pitcher cards out there just as you can add additional HRs, hits, or BBs to a hitters card to provide for ever greater record hitting seasons.
What cannot be replicated by the 50/50 method is historic lows in BBs, hits, HRs given up by a pitcher. Once you have 0 of these on a card it can get no better. Thus whether against allstars or regular single season lineups extreme pitching performances cannot be replicated.
If perfect cards such as I created and voovits created going against ordinary hitters are going to give up walk totals in the 40s neighborhood and HR totals of 10 or 20 it should be no surprise that even the best of ATG pitchers are giving up 50 or 60 per year.
The point is not to call for radical change to the strat model. I know that is not going to happen because it would cause compatability problems playing any newly generated cards with older already published cards. Mainly trying to illustrate one reason we see great hitters matching or even exceeding their real life numbers while our HOF pitchers never come close except in leagues that weed out all decent hitters via theme or salary cap. And to provide an illustration why pitchers could use the help of pitcher clutch.