Is it just me, or is the CPU a real strike machine?

[metal134]

I've only very lightly dabbled in DD in the past, but I wanted to play it a little more this year. However, I've been playing some Conquest and a few full games against the CPU on mostly All-Star and I'm noticing the CPU pitchers absolutely pounding the strike zone. I just played a game against the Reds where Luis Castillo pitched a complete game with only about 70 pitches. Not because I was being impatient, but because there was not reason not to swing. Almost everything was in the heart of the zone. I looked at his grouping after the game was over and only 10 pitches were out of the zone. This seems par for the course in all the games I have played so far. It's not like this when I play RTTS or exhibition.

[dougdfc]

Re: Is it just me, or is the CPU a real strike machine?

I haven't noticed that, but I have noticed that hitting seems completely different this year. There's about 3x as many Good-timing-Good-contact hits that are just softly hit to outfields. Happened 9 times in the last game I played

[metal134]

Re: Is it just me, or is the CPU a real strike machine?

You aren't kidding about that. In that same game I described, I lost count of how many good timing, good contact results I got on pitches that were down the middle or damn close to down the middle that were weak fly outs.

[themuel1]

Re: Is it just me, or is the CPU a real strike machine?

I don't know if it's just selective memory but first inning it seems to be nothing but strikes, a lot down the middle, by the third it's far more of a mix of balls and strikes and I get easy walks.

On the flip side I'm finding the cpu strike out chasing everything in the first inning and by the third has the plate discipline of a machine chasing nothing outside the zone. Had multiple occasions where a perfect pitch, a tv inch outside the zone and low is hit for a game tying home run by the cpu in the third.

[PRBoricua]

Re: Is it just me, or is the CPU a real strike machine?

I don't know if it's just selective memory but first inning it seems to be nothing but strikes, a lot down the middle, by the third it's far more of a mix of balls and strikes and I get easy walks.

On the flip side I'm finding the cpu strike out chasing everything in the first inning and by the third has the plate discipline of a machine chasing nothing outside the zone. Had multiple occasions where a perfect pitch, a tv inch outside the zone and low is hit for a game tying home run by the cpu in the third.

This is the problem that I'm seeing ... kind of.

Instead of not chasing anything outside the zone, they will indeed swing, but many of the CPU AB's go for 5, 6, 7 pitches because they make contact and foul off EVERYTHING.

It's not uncommon for my starter to have thrown somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 pitches by the 5th inning

[Vomitus]

Re: Is it just me, or is the CPU a real strike machine?

I play on legendary, better odds for gold drops. I notice the CPU mixes in lots of balls and strikes. My walk count is a lot higher, compared to when I played on All-Star.