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scorehouse wrote: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.