Pitching rotation

[phantomshark]

So the game 'randomly' starts one of my top 2 pitchers 95% of the time. My 3rd best, Jack Morris, has gotten 2 starts and my 4th and 5th, both of whom I need to have start to complete missions, have never been picked. This is in about 40 DD games so far. If I put 2 crappy pitchers in my rotation in place of my 2 stars, will the other get picked more?

[848]

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I'm having this issue too, it seems that if there's a mission I need to complete that pitcher NEVER gets picked.

[dougdfc]

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I had an issue of almost never getting Impact Veteran Phil Hughes starting once his challenge was unlocked. I dashboarded for over an hour trying to get Hughes to proc and instead got to suffer through a couple dozen rolls of Jeff Samardijza and Jerad Eickhoff

[FluffyTonka]

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it really gets me how bad the SP pitching is with the random generator.

it couldn't be too hard to program into the game, once a SP has pitched a game, his fitness won't return until after 4 more games have been played.

it would totally add another layer to DD. Having to use and also getting to face other more hittable pitchers than catfish hunter.

[mikeq672]

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Starting pitcher selection is 100% not random. Whatever formula they use to pick a starter is broken, has been for years. I pitch with the same pitcher everyday for a bunch of games until I have to physically remove him from my rotation because I am sick of pitching with him.

[PhilliesFan13]

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I have pitched with flashback J.A. Happ literally 95% of my DD games. I don't understand how he can possibly be picked that much randomly.

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[BusDriver]

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I'm with ya. I cannot even get 3 of my guys to ever pitch. One guy has pitched once. It's usually 2 guys that pitch. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Also, why did they remove seeing what pitcher the other guy is using pre-game? IRL, teams know who they're facing and adjust with righties and lefties. I think I may actually like the way it is now, I am just not sure. I was mainly curious about why they dropped this programming.

-Bus

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Also, why did they remove seeing what pitcher the other guy is using pre-game?

They dropped it this year because people were backing out of games as soon as they'd see that their opponent was using a left-handed pitcher, IIRC.

As far as the "random" starting pitcher issue goes, I think Tyson Ross is something like 9-1 for me, whereas no other starting pitcher I have in my rotation has more than 2 starts.

[FloorGeneral]

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The thing that I seem to have happen a lot (in both Conquest and Play vs. CPU games) is I'll put some lefties in my lineup that are playing up, and a good 80% of the time the team I'm facing will magically start one of the 1 or 2 lefties that they have. I was playing Colorado the other day, and probably saw Tyler Anderson 4 or 5 times in a row. After the 3rd time, I said screw it and pinch-hit for one of my lefties in the 1st and ended up hitting 2 HRs with JD Martinez.

[Iceman9214387]

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I'm very curious to find out if they "randomly" pick 1-5 or based on overall. Last year, I had a typical 1-5 rotation and it seemed like #4 or #5 was always getting picked. When I made my rotation random, it seemed to help to randomize who was getting picked. This year, it has been better, but mostly 2-3-4 being picked.