@ThaSultanOfSwag said in SDS you really sure reconsider RP stamina:
@vox_pestis said in SDS you really sure reconsider RP stamina:
I think the RP stamina curve shouldn't be flat... you should diminish during an inning more slowly but then take a one time drop between innings. Real life relief pitchers can handle a 30 pitch inning better than 20 pitches over three innings, time and cooling down between innings is also a factor. This would reduce both unrealistic 3+ inning relief appearances and also push back on people who put a different starter in the second inning. They'd pay that stamina penalty every inning.
I'm not sure if they already do this, or if its a linear calculation, but it feels linear.
This is one hundred percent wrong. Real life pitchers are better able to handle 3x 15-pitch innings than they can handle 1 28 pitch inning. a 28 pitch inning means you likely are facing 5-6 better meaning you are probably throwing half of those pitches in high intensity, max effort, energy draining situations. Also 28 consecutive pitches without rest is far more taxing on your arm than 50 pitches with adequate rest between innings.
I always advocated for having pitchers regenerate energy between innings ever so slowly, but enough so that if you have a long inning at the plate it actually helps your pitcher as well and inversely a 3-pitch inning makes it so your pitcher never gets a break and hurts his energy far more as that is completely realistic.
Interesting. I’m glad you actually supported your point instead of just saying mine was wrong.
A better way to look at this is probably fatigue and strain. Fatigue is familiar to everyone... Lactic acid build up causes soreness, and the between inning break let’s that process progress. This effects a pitchers whole body, and a lot of pitching happens in the legs.
But pitchers are different than most that they actually injure themselves. Pitching is an awkward movement for the arm which causes micro tears in your elbow and rotator cuff mostly. I’ll call this strain for lack of a better word.
Fatigue, I believe, matters more during a game, but repairing the micro tears caused by strain comes into play between starts. For me, this was so bad I had to stop pitching by age 18. I didn’t have the genetic makeup to heal and was just getting destroyed.
I may have been over emphasizing some analytics I read in baseball prospectus about “stress pitches” not really existing.