Most broken HAL move ever - TURN OFF CLUTCH

I don't know a lot about clutch or why it is the way it is but I do like to have positive clutch and it seems very hard to get it. I don't understand why the best players in history have poor clutch in most cases. I guess it's to prevent the cards from being too strong? Not sure why that can't be reflected in the price like everything else.

Maybe to manipulate the RBI totals of leadoff hitters that had 200+ hits and ~70 RBI IRL?

so what does HAL do if you have a couple of hitters coming up with positive clutch?

HAL makes an IBB decision based on comparing the curent hitter to the next hitter. Positive clutch is not treated differently than negative in that way.

HAL is simply playing the odds--if it is a clutch situation, he will choose to face the hitter with less chances of success after accounting for clutch if it applies, but the decision threshold for pitch/IBB is moderated a bit by your selected settings in team strategy and pitcher settings.

So as Max said, if we could just de-program HAL to stop walking people due to differential clutch, it would be less bothersome. Or at least make it on par with normal IBB situational decisions. Right now it has an outsized influence on HAL's decisionmaking.

Clutch results don't directly affect outcomes often and it affects many cards, so in a relative sense among those with negative clutch, it is not a significant performance differential.