Here's the scenario,

Bottom of the ninth, two outs and a runner on second. I am up one run. For the next batter, my marquee closer intentionally walks the potential game winning run! Two batters later, he's crossed home plate and I've lost.

To me, this is a no brainer: this was a mistake by the Sim, so I sent in a ticket with the link to the game.

http://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=22495715&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10

Not only did support say it was not a mistake, they seemingly scoffed at me, telling me "this is a common tactic" used in baseball.

Have I lost my damn mind here? Or is WIS putting forth the same effort in customer support as they have with the rest of their product?

What is your intentional walk setting at? I never put mine higher than 1 because I have seen some screwy things with intentional passes in the past.

I'd be slightly annoyed if it happened to me, but then I keep my Intentional Walks setting on 1 and my teams typically issue about 5 IBB's a season.  In your example, I think a lot depends on your IW setting.  Is it 3 or more?  If so, I can see why an IBB was issued to a batter with an AVG# of .302 to get to a batter with an AVG# of .245.

I never changed it so it was at three.

Also, the reason I was given was not for batter matchup but to create an opportunity to get a forced out at second....

Understood, but if the on deck batter had had a much higher AVG# than the batter at the plate, I'm not sure the IBB would have been issued. 

When you take into account the opportunity for a forced out, the differences in AVG, and the IW setting of 3, I don't think the IBB was an unreasonable call.  It didn't work out for your team in this instance, but them's the breaks.

Also, you got a response to your ticket!  And to go by the date on the boxscore, in a timely fashion, too!

Yea, it shocked me when they responded and the game doesn't really matter. I just can't get over intentionally putting the game winning run on.

And this is another SIM lesson in "Why you never, ever, ever let your IBB setting be higher than 1."

And if that's the lesson, consider it learned!

I just felt like I had gone crazy because they acted like "duh, of course you walk the potential game-winning run in that situation" and that is so far from what my years of playing baseball tell me.

Posted by billyho1515 on 6/3/2014 2:59:00 PM (view original):
And if that's the lesson, consider it learned!

I just felt like I had gone crazy because they acted like "duh, of course you walk the potential game-winning run in that situation" and that is so far from what my years of playing baseball tell me.

Yeah, you have to remember, this is SIM baseball. Not real baseball. 
WIS doesn't care that their games don't resemble the real thing even if it is something as basic as keeping the winning run off base.

walking Joyner (.303) with the tying run at second to get to Vaughn (.239), with Justice (.244) to follow, does not seem like an overtly stupid move...but like everyone else says, I always set my IW to 1.