pinch hitter's name starts with "H"?

[vgp100]

I just happened to be on this site that gives cheats for various games. I looked up RBI Baseball to see if they had anything on it.
http://www.gamewinners.com/nes/RBIBaseball.htm

It says that if you pick a pinch hitter witht he last name beginning with the letter H, you have a better chance of getting a hit.  What the hell?

[sucka free]

this looks like a bunch of shit

[GDavis]

we've heard this one before.  its a load of crap.

[nightwulf]

It's impossible to say for sure, since we don't have the exact algorithm used to determine what happens once a ball is hit.

My best educated guess? "a bunch of shit," as sucka so succinctly put it.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

Shit....  It seemed to propagate to a few cheat sites out there, a bunch of those NES tip pages simply copy from each other....

[SmokedUBad13]

I wouldn't shut out the notorious "H-factor" so quickly.  If you think about it, there is some truth behind it.  Didn't we agree awhile back (thanks to nightwulf and some meticulous ROM hacking) that the substitution of a pinch hitter boosted that player's power ranking for that particular at bat?

So wouldn't it kind of make sense that people would believe in such a theory if you consider the fact that the first two of the 4 "H-players" (Hendrick, Henderson, Heath, & Heep) have solid batting averages and homers?

Overall, I feel that it's a bad rumor.  Yet, if you combine the extra boost received with the "Sub-factor" and the fact that Hendrick & Henderson are good players (largely my opinion), I think you can begin to see how this myth may have started.

SmokedUBad
www.dee-nee.com/rbi/mbeales - The Official R.B.I. Baseball COTUT

[fknmclane]

Check out the big brain on dvldog.  You a smart motherfucker.