Re: Base Stealing Viability
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:00 pm
There are some owners who always set their stealing setting to conservative or very conservative, because they "don't want to run into outs". They may also apply that to baserunning.
I am not so sure that that equates. A successful steal, puts a runner in scoring position, and avoids the double play, those are not insignificant factors.
If you have a team with a majority of 1-17, 1-16, 1-15 runners, then going for the XTRA base makes eminent sense.
Someone suggested that it would be great to have individual base running settings, ---i.e. so your 1-9 catcher doesn't try to stretch a double. Thats a great idea. Maybe it does not have to be individual, but the setting could be based on a cutoff for runners such as this:
1-14 and higher:
Below 1-14:
High speed teams, like base stealing teams, put runners in scoring position and take the offense out of DP sitches.
There has to be an equation that determines the numeric advantage/disadvantage, but I flunked math so I wouldn't even know where to start...
I am not so sure that that equates. A successful steal, puts a runner in scoring position, and avoids the double play, those are not insignificant factors.
If you have a team with a majority of 1-17, 1-16, 1-15 runners, then going for the XTRA base makes eminent sense.
Someone suggested that it would be great to have individual base running settings, ---i.e. so your 1-9 catcher doesn't try to stretch a double. Thats a great idea. Maybe it does not have to be individual, but the setting could be based on a cutoff for runners such as this:
1-14 and higher:
Below 1-14:
High speed teams, like base stealing teams, put runners in scoring position and take the offense out of DP sitches.
There has to be an equation that determines the numeric advantage/disadvantage, but I flunked math so I wouldn't even know where to start...