Posted by milest on 9/16/2019 8:42:00 PM (view original):
Posted by redcped on 9/16/2019 3:11:00 PM (view original):
I guess I've never understood the complaint that the game is out to get anyone. It just defies everything I understand about the world to believe that a company would program in losing in order to upset people. The simplest explanation is almost always right, even if you don't like it. It's a simulation. Each and every outcome is based on data and some randomness that over a large enough sample produces results that more or less meet reasonable expectations.
I never said the game is 'out to get me'. I just said it's not any fun. I insinuated that it is ridiculous for a team that is 54-35 to lose 12, now 13 in a row. I'm not arrogant enough to think the machine is out to get me. Take my comments at face value and dont add words I didn't say.
I apologize. I wasn't simply responding to your post in specific, however. I play another sim game where I've heard similar complaints, too. Mostly that people think that game punishes the teams with the best records in the playoffs. The problem generally is we as people are prone to noticing the slips but not balancing them against the times when we succeed. Again, not pointing specific fingers here. I just think we are more likely to feel the frustration if a great team doesn't win than we are elation if it does, as we expected it to all along. Nor generally do people complain when their underdog team beats the odds and knocks off a couple better teams in the playoffs. I mean, aren't we all just playing what is literally a zero-sum game? For each success, there must be a failure. And nothing is likely to convince me there is anything other than the resolution of each single game as a unique entity, and streakiness is nowhere in the code.