Who a pitcher faced in real life and the park they pitched in is totally
irrelevant.

The simulator treats a game in PETCO Park against the Nationals exactly the same
as it treats a game against the Phillies in Citizens Bank Park.

Your post indicates that you believe that the simulator takes into account the
quality of competition a pitcher had in real life. It doesn't.



--- In scoresheet-talk@yahoogroups.com, Derek Hiemforth <derek@...> wrote:
>
> I agree. I also think people tend to forget that performance in the
> sim isn't just based on what your guy did in real life... it's also
> based on what the guys he's facing in Scoresheet did in real life. So
> Joe Pitcher pitched 8 innings IRL and only gave up one run while
> striking out 9 and walking 1. That's great. But if he was facing the
> Nationals IRL, and facing a lineup of hot hitters in Scoresheet, he's
> not necessarily going to get the same results.
>
> I mean, let's think about it... If he did... if Joe Pitcher performed
> in Scoresheet the same as he did against a weak-hitting real-life
> team, wouldn't that just mean the sim was broken in the other
> direction? As the owner of the team with the hot-hitting lineup, I
> could then turn around and complain, "Hey! My guys as a lineup had a .
> 400/.550/.800 line for the week, and we were all but shut down by Joe
> Pitcher! What gives?!?"
>
> There are just going to be times when a good performance IRL doesn't
> end up as good in Scoresheet, all because of the way the matchups
> break down...
>
> - Derek
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:26 AM, garthhewitt wrote:
>
> > Well, they get complaints that the outcomes and too random and
> > complaints that the outcomes are not random enough. The more I read
> > these complaints the more I believe the sim stikes a reasonable
> > balance.
>