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And since no one seems interested in this big reveal... I figure I'll just give it away anyways.
As many of you may have known... for as long as RP have been in OOTP... they have a problem with... endurance. Anything under a '5' endurance was shunned to the bullpen as most pitchers under that mythical 5 endurance couldn't put up more than 50 pitches in an outing... well my friends... with the release of OOTP 9, Markus has completely re-wrote how endurance works for pitchers.
And I'm here to tell you, regardless of what your pitcher is in endurance... they ALL can now throw 80 pitches in an outing.
This is HUGE news. And i'm not sure why this hasn't been talked about... or discovered until now.
I accidentally discovered this while messing with RP's in a test league with the base Major League rosters.
Now... to show that I'm not making this up... I've been taking screen caps to show my findings.
Prospect A: Jose Vallejo
I basically created this guy to see what would happen... I set his endurance to a 10/250... as to give him a true '2' in endurance... I then maxed all of his ratings to 250 as to give him a chance to reach his true pitch limit.
What I've found is... regardless of how well Vallejo pitches, he hits a 'wall' at 80 or so pitches... sometimes he'll throw 75, sometimes he'll throw 90... but it in the end... he averages out at 81 pitches a game.
Of note... he threw two 100 pitches efforts, and two 90 pitch efforts.
He averaged about 5.5 innings per start.
Here are two screen cap of Vallejo:
Prospect B: Esteban Chavarria
This guy, I followed the same process as Vallejo but instead I made sure he was a '3' in endurance. The results become even more promising!
Chavarria averaged 87 pitches per start.... as well as 6.13 innings per start.
What's more encouraging is that Chavarria kept his K rate strong throughout finishing with 208 K's in 202 innings.
He threw two 100 pitch games and 17 90 pitch games which is a huge improvement over Vallejo.
His highest pitch count was 120 pitches.
Here are two screen caps of Chavarria:
Prospect C: Wilson Montoya
For my last test, I went through the same steps as with Chavarria and Vallejo but this time I chose a pitcher with '4' endurance.
For Montoya, he averaged 92 pitches a start and a solid 6.4 innings per start.
He threw four 100 pitch games and 18 90 pitch games.
His highest pitch count was 145 pitches (complete game)
His K rate was an outstanding 1.17 which is amazing when you consider he threw nearly 200 innings. (He's not wearing down in later innings)
Here are two screen caps of Montoya:
So, what does all this data mean? It means, no longer does a RP have to stay a RP because they can only throw 20-30 pitches a contest... with OOTP9 it appears as if endurance has been rewritten so that any pitcher can now reach 80 pitches in a game, regardless of their endurance level... something I whole heartedly agree with.
Hopefully you guys can use this information to your advantage.
As many of you may have known... for as long as RP have been in OOTP... they have a problem with... endurance. Anything under a '5' endurance was shunned to the bullpen as most pitchers under that mythical 5 endurance couldn't put up more than 50 pitches in an outing... well my friends... with the release of OOTP 9, Markus has completely re-wrote how endurance works for pitchers.
And I'm here to tell you, regardless of what your pitcher is in endurance... they ALL can now throw 80 pitches in an outing.
This is HUGE news. And i'm not sure why this hasn't been talked about... or discovered until now.
I accidentally discovered this while messing with RP's in a test league with the base Major League rosters.
Now... to show that I'm not making this up... I've been taking screen caps to show my findings.
Prospect A: Jose Vallejo
I basically created this guy to see what would happen... I set his endurance to a 10/250... as to give him a true '2' in endurance... I then maxed all of his ratings to 250 as to give him a chance to reach his true pitch limit.
What I've found is... regardless of how well Vallejo pitches, he hits a 'wall' at 80 or so pitches... sometimes he'll throw 75, sometimes he'll throw 90... but it in the end... he averages out at 81 pitches a game.
Of note... he threw two 100 pitches efforts, and two 90 pitch efforts.
He averaged about 5.5 innings per start.
Here are two screen cap of Vallejo:
Prospect B: Esteban Chavarria
This guy, I followed the same process as Vallejo but instead I made sure he was a '3' in endurance. The results become even more promising!
Chavarria averaged 87 pitches per start.... as well as 6.13 innings per start.
What's more encouraging is that Chavarria kept his K rate strong throughout finishing with 208 K's in 202 innings.
He threw two 100 pitch games and 17 90 pitch games which is a huge improvement over Vallejo.
His highest pitch count was 120 pitches.
Here are two screen caps of Chavarria:
Prospect C: Wilson Montoya
For my last test, I went through the same steps as with Chavarria and Vallejo but this time I chose a pitcher with '4' endurance.
For Montoya, he averaged 92 pitches a start and a solid 6.4 innings per start.
He threw four 100 pitch games and 18 90 pitch games.
His highest pitch count was 145 pitches (complete game)
His K rate was an outstanding 1.17 which is amazing when you consider he threw nearly 200 innings. (He's not wearing down in later innings)
Here are two screen caps of Montoya:
So, what does all this data mean? It means, no longer does a RP have to stay a RP because they can only throw 20-30 pitches a contest... with OOTP9 it appears as if endurance has been rewritten so that any pitcher can now reach 80 pitches in a game, regardless of their endurance level... something I whole heartedly agree with.
Hopefully you guys can use this information to your advantage.
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