Sun Aug 31, 2014 12:28 pm
I have posted some of these points in various places. Let me put them all in one post.
1. The fact that bizarre things happen from time to time (Hack Wilson goes 7 or 7 with 4 HR, Campy makes 3 miscues in a single game, Somebody with a lefty team in Penmar rolls 22 of 31 times on the 5-day Pedro card, one of your one injury rolls guys gets hurt 6 times in a season while two others go scot-free.) is clear evidence that the dice rolls are, in fact, random. If they were attempting to make sure that all the possible rolls came up in the proper ratio over a short sample, this stuff wouldn't happen. Please note that one of the tag lines on the Indians' broadcasts is something like, "you never know what you might see when you come to a game."
2. There are a lot of games played every night on this site. So weird things are going to happen from time to time, and because of the sheer number of games played something extremely odd is going to happen several times a week. But the vast majority of games don't see these things.
3. There are some things that the game company does not divulge. Among them are the mechanism for bunting for base hits, what happens when a pitcher ceases to be an F9 for a particular game, how it decides to use relief pitchers within the parameters of the pitcher roles we assign, how it decides whether to pinch hit, etc. We just have to deal with it. I am in a PBM league where we use the current game, and the computer manager available in the current game is vastly better than this one, but also vastly more time-consuming to program. If that CM was available here, I would consider it quite a burden to start more than one team a week. And it would completely baffle new users. So they continue to use the relatively simplistic version, to make the game more user-friendly. I think that's a good thing, we need more managers here, not less, even at the expense of a poor computer AI.
Finally, when I see someone start a new topic with the title "Who Ya Kidding?", I automatically consider that to be whining without regard to the tenor of the post within. Nobody is kidding. Random number generators sometimes cluster similar or identical results in a very small sample size. If it were otherwise, then the random number generator would not be random. I regard the failure to accept this mathematical fact uncomplainingly as extremely infantile. And I would love to play poker regularly with those of you who can't accept it - I could quit my day job.
