MLB 09' Game Engine???

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChiefsRox10

also there was 08' stats listed when the cpu batted).

Just a side bit of info, that's likely the glitch that carried over from 08. If you played an exhibition game prior to starting your franchise (meaning without shutting down/resetting in between) you'd end up being stuck with the overlays from exhibition, rather than ones for the current season.

[rondoman]

There was one game I played where the CPU walked 4 straight guys of mine all on 4 pitches each.

Thought that was kinda weird, only a one time thing, but odd nonetheless.

[Woodweaver]

Quote: Originally Posted by thdudeabides

I don't know about the game engine thing, but along the lines the the OP's comment, something I've noticed is that variable events, that you would see happen over a course of a season seem to often come in "bunch's". For example my team will go four five games without a homerun, then hit four or five in one game against a pitcher with high confidence, and it doesn't seem as if I'm "seeing" the ball any better. Errors too, go a week without one and then you'll get into a series where the CPU and User teams make a couple a game. These of course could be explained away as "streaks". The most odd example was a game where Tom Gordon hit two of my batters in one inning, then two more in his second inning. Seemed like the "event"' just got stuck for a couple innings.

Quote: Originally Posted by rondoman

There was one game I played where the CPU walked 4 straight guys of mine all on 4 pitches each. Thought that was kinda weird, only a one time thing, but odd nonetheless.

If you were flipping a coin and it suddenly came up heads 4 times in a row, would you think that some one magically swapped coins out on you mid-flip?

[fistofrage]

Quote: Originally Posted by Woodweaver

If you were flipping a coin and it suddenly came up heads 4 times in a row, would you think that some one magically swapped coins out on you mid-flip?

Bad example, flipping a coin and it having it come up heads 4 times in a row is alot more common than a pitcher throwing 16 straight balls. Let alone the AI pitchers in this game. A 4 pitch walk is about as common as a real yeti sighting, especially on Legend.

[rondoman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Woodweaver

If you were flipping a coin and it suddenly came up heads 4 times in a row, would you think that some one magically swapped coins out on you mid-flip?

NO, because that is a 50/50 occurence.

A pitcher walking 4 straight batters, on 16 consecutive balls: that has way less than a 50% chance of happening.

[nomarhits400]

Quote: Originally Posted by rondoman

NO, because that is a 50/50 occurence. A pitcher walking 4 straight batters, on 16 consecutive balls: that has way less than a 50% chance of happening.

No, there is a 6.25% chance you will flip a coin and get heads 4 times in a row.

[countryboy]

Sometimes the best explanation for why things happen the way they do in baseball is well, its baseball.

Baseball is a funny game.

IMO, instead of trying to figure out why things are happening, just play thru/accept the things that are happening. It seems that people are concerned with having predictable outcomes emerge from an unpredictable sport/game.

[strickzilla]

im thinking its just baseball in my oakland franchise Jack just had 12 HR in the first 20 or so games, at the all star break he has 15.

i think i see what the op is saying but i think (for baseball) its too small a sample size to attribute to weirdness or a "ghost in the machine" if you will.