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banditelvis721
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, ago
Ok gotcha, but here is the issue, i used pennantchase.com 2 years ago, jacob degrom, pitched i think like 60 innings in real baseball, the owner was able to pitch him all year, he had over 200 plus innings, i think there should be a warning when someone like that goes over his innings, and if the owner continues to put him in, his stats would deteriorate, there is no way he should be able to keep it up, do you understand? that would make it very real!
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perry
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Hi Perry, good question!
The game doesn't put a hard limit on how much a player can play based on his real-life stats, but the computer manager does try to keep things reasonably close to what actually happened.
For batters, the default lineups take into account how many games a player started in real life. A guy who started 155 games is going to play almost every day, while bench players get their opportunities when starters rest, pinch hit, or get injured. So your 200 AB player should end up somewhere around that number, but he could certainly go over or under.
Starting pitchers work a little differently. The computer manager keeps track of how many starts each pitcher has made compared to his real-life pace. If someone gets about 25% ahead of that pace, the manager gives his next start to a spot starter who hasn't been getting enough work.
Relievers are handled similarly. Once a reliever gets about 25% ahead of his actual pace, plus a couple of appearances, the computer manager stops using him in relief. So a guy who threw 66 innings might throw more than that, but you generally shouldn't see the computer manager running him out there for 150 innings.
As for injuries, those have nothing to do with a player's actual playing time. They're random, influenced by age, and only happen if you have injuries turned on. The game isn't going to injure someone because he's played more than he did in real life.
Now, all of this applies to the computer manager and the default lineups. If you're managing the team yourself and want to start a bench player every day or pitch someone more often than he actually pitched, you're free to do that. The game won't stop you.
The idea is to keep things reasonably close to history while still letting the season play out however it plays out.
Hope all that helps and makes sense. Let me know if not.