Relief Pitchers in Roster Updates
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Over the years I've begun to notice that SDS doesn't seem to pay as much attention to replicating what we're seeing at the present time in real-life into their game and that's disappointing. It's something I have to overhaul whenever I start a new Franchise as it bothers me that they just don't give relievers the same treatment as starting pitchers and position players.
I understand the reason for this is likely that relievers are so volatile year-to-year -- heck, even month-to-month -- and that makes it difficult to rate them in accordance to their whole weighing the past three-years into their attributes and overall. Personally, I think SDS should make exception to that system and try to keep the ratings more in line with how each reliever is performing at that given time. I will admit that they have gotten a bit better at doing this in recent years but it's still not at a satisfactory place, in my opinion.
For example, we've all seen how dominant Alex Reyes has been this season in every category except the amount of batters he is walking -- which is well represented in his Live Series card with a BB/9 of 18. Where the problem lies for Reyes' Live Series reflection of how he's performing is his HR/9 which is at a 64 despite the fact that in 33 innings pitched this season, he has only allowed two home runs. Obviously, this is just one example -- but I could probably find dozens just at first glance if I wanted this post to be even longer, which I don't and more than likely, neither do you.
So what do you guys think of this? Do you agree with me that they should ditch their "three-year average scale" in determining a player's overall just for relievers for the sake of accurately representing how a reliever is performing in the current season or do you like that SDS really makes them earn their ratings over a much larger sample size, even if it sometimes flies in the face of realism?
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Also they need to make it so LS relief pitchers aren’t ALWAYS playing down.
Usually for no reason other than, “limited data but doesn’t favor him” type stuff.
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I feel like this topic needs to be bumped. They did do one thing I wanted -- which was updating the control, break and velocity for Live Series SPs -- and that's nice but they didn't do enough with relievers again.
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