Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:33 am
All the owners that I know that have ridiculously bad records with 100+ win teams, and/or have experienced a significant drop in winning percentage in the past two years, despite a positive increase in run differential, combined with a ever increasing poor performance of wins vs projected Pythag — all meet the following criteria:
1) they have played STRAT since the early days
2) they have had over 1500 teams minimum
3) they have a on overall winning percentage of over .525
4) they have a playoff winning percentage of over .520
5) they normally have 8-10 teams going at any given time
Outside of 2 or 3 exceptions, Of the owners that I know, they have all either left the game or are
In the process of doing so. Which calls to mind the line in Goldfinger about happenstance….
So is it possible that the results these particular set of owners have experienced is just a fluke of probability?
Of course.
Is it possible, that in order to keep new owners involved in the game, and buying new teams,— that programming modifiers are being used to give newbies an edge? ( at the expense of long term owners that have thousands of teams and a good many rings )
That is also possible.
There is talk about how that in the game engine, given each players card has a huge variable of dice results, that it would be very difficult to program modifiers.
Undeniably. However, there are a number of results that are calculated on top of the game engine— things that in the board game were a split card result——- BP home runs, fielding results, injuries etc— these kind of results would be far easier to modify. Possible but unlikely.
But there will never be a way to know that for sure, so in the scheme of things my thought is to play the game as long as you enjoy it.