Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:14 pm
Here's an excerpt from the post from FrankieT on 9/05/20 that suggests a relationship between pitcher fatigue and rolls landing on hitter's card. Yes, it does contradict what is stated about PCF in Wikipedia (pitchers' @ changing to hits). but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Wikipedia discussion of PCF in SOM 365 is misstated, or, at least, misleading. On the other hand, maybe the Wikipedia discussion is correct and the game engine incorrectly assigns roll outcomes for those fatigued pitchers possibly to the wrong categorization. It's a black box to say the least. My belief is "black box" rolls of fatigued pitchers are arbitrarily categorized under "hitter rolls" in an effort to aid the manager in identifying weakness in how his pitching staff is being managed. If that's true, then, they should have listed a third category called "Black Box table lookup" instead of misleading us into thinking all rolls are purely either "pitcher" or "hitter".
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"Maybe someone with knowledge of the game engine can poke in about the card lookups gradually switching to the hitter card as pitchers get to F0 because I can no longer find it. I don't think I dreamed it, but...
Had a newer player encounter this last year and he had all R1 relievers on most of his teams and was wondering why all his pitchers' split rates of hitter cards was so high--well his relievers were always coming in at F0. Once he fixed that by adding an R3, they no longer came in tired and his card splits corrected.
The way it worked--to my understanding--was this way:
Since PCF results were not just limited to SINGLE**, in the case of a fatigue-inspired hit from the @, the engine first determined what the result was. (Black box--lookup table not available anywhere)
Using that result, it would find the corresponding value (ie walk, single, double etc) on the hitter card and code the play by play outcome that way.
The point is--we don't know what that PCF function looks like."
Last edited by FrankieT on Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:16 pm, edited 3 times in total.