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Man, I dunno...these player quirks scare me a little. I really hope they can be given and, perhaps more importantly, taken away by us.
Performs better when team is behind; performs better in 9th inning or later; good at driving in runner on 3rd with less than 2 outs...these are all versions of that folksy intangible people call "clutch," the existence of which is debatable.
http://www.fangraphs.com/library/misc/clutch/
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/why-w...-about-clutch/
To me, a quirk is more something like "pitcher throws to first more often/doesn't throw to first very often," "first strike swinger," etc.
Goodness, I hope not.
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Do we even know if the quirks give attribute boosts?
I wouldn't think so. I believe these quirks are "under the hood" attributes that these players have anyway. I believe the dev team just gave us these quirks to allow for more variety and differentiation between players. Now we can see what sets some players apart from others and we can now construct our lineups/rosters based on certain types of players that we might be trying to fit with our teams.
Regarding Rizzo's "2 strike hitting quirk", I believe in past versions of the game, he would still have similar contact/clutch/etc ratings for 2 strikes as he does in this year's game. We just weren't aware of it because we didn't have the "quirk" or badge in the previous games to let us know that. I don't see them giving attribute boosts in addition to the existing rating just in those scenarios.
I think some here are believing the quirks will cause some of the player's attributes to be boosted to where they are overpowering to an advantage. I don't think that's the case. It seems to me the dev team just gave us notification of these players special abilities in certain situations to give more player variety and team building variety in our franchise.
I could be totally wrong on this but that's how I see how the quirks are implemented into the game this year. I think it's a great addition and I have been hoping for something like this in The Show ever since 2K's badges system was introduced. Adds another layer of strategy in franchise.
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