Biggest Problems with the gameplay engine

some of us complained enough and the rest of you sheep just went "baaaaahh" and took it.

We play by the game SOM wants to give us, not the game we want or expect. They've made that plainly clear that if you don't like it then leave. That's why Salty left.

I didn't say I'm leaving, but basically I've given up trying to get you fools to stand up and get them to fix the game. I will exploit what I can find along the way as well.

the two that get me are mauer and stenzel.

To make matters worse, Strat's stats for Stenzel are incorrect: baseball-reference has Stenzel with 525 at bats and 76 walks, not 522/ 75. I emailed them about it several months ago, and they acknowledged the discrepancy- but said that that they weren't going to do anything about it.

My gameplay related issues -- which are really more a part of the underlying game structure than the programming -- involve the distribution of defensive chances and ballpark singles. Finesse pitchers rely on their defense to a much greater degree than power pitchers, but Tommy John and Jamie Moyer have the same number of defensive chances on their cards as Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan. Also, groundball pitchers have the same breakdown of defensive chances as flyball pitchers. From a teambuilding standpoint, a team that gets 9 strikeouts a game would have more of an incentive to skimp on defense than one that gets 5 strikeouts a game, but the game doesn't allow for that trade-off.

Similarly, I don't understand why about 99% of the hitters, and maybe 95% of the pitchers have exactly five ballpark singles from each side- no more, no less. As a result, Ichiro's chance of a ballpark single is the same as Rob Deer's. Ballpark homers, by contrast, are more broadly distributed.

I can't imagine that this would be fixed, as it would require redoing (and then repricing) all the cards.

Trying to verify your concerns about pitchers like John or Moyer v. pitchers like Ryan or R.Johnson...what seasons' cards are you referring to? A quick check of 2001 Moyer v. '86 Ryan shows more x-chances on Moyer's card not to mention they occur in more of the higher probability rolls...that seems as it should be...am I missing something? I'm interested in your assertion as I'm always looking to understand and improve my strat play.

Trying to verify your concerns about pitchers like John or Moyer v. pitchers like Ryan or R.Johnson...what seasons' cards are you referring to? A quick check of 2001 Moyer v. '86 Ryan shows more x-chances on Moyer's card not to mention they occur in more of the higher probability rolls...that seems as it should be...am I missing something? I'm interested in your assertion as I'm always looking to understand and improve my strat play.

I looked at 2001 Jamie Moyer versus 1986 Nolan Ryan. They are the same on both cards. SS has 7 chances on both cards and CF has 3 chances on both cards as an example.