RTTS - Decreasing ratings and OVR?

[Madden's Jowels]

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All contracts are 1 year deals, until you accrue 6 years service time and reach FA. Until you reach arbitration your team just automatically renews your contract for another year as stated by Madden's Jowels.

And what I meant by defense was your actual attributes, not your stats. If your reaction/fielding/speed attributes aren't high enough that seems to have an affect on call ups. So it doesn't seem to matter how your stats relate to the other players, but how your attributes compare.

But yes, as Madden said, you're in for a long ride. The RTTS logic still needs to be refined and sometimes it doesn't matter what your numbers are like. If the game decides you're blocked, you're blocked.

All correct except for one point: your aren't strictly stuck with 1 year contracts. Your team can offer you longterm deals and they often do, even in the minors, they just don't have to. When I was in the offseason between year 1 and year 2, the Astros kept offering me 4, 5 and 6 year deals worth a little under $1m a season (I simmed the offseason a bunch of times hoping they wouldn't cut Springer, but every single time, they did). Anyways, I didn't want to forgo my arbitration years, so I kept countering with a 2 year deal, they wanted to lock me down long term and kept declining, so I just never accepted a contract and let them renew me. They renewed me for like 550k though rather than the bare minimum.

[m3lover1]

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All correct except for one point: your aren't strictly stuck with 1 year contracts. Your team can offer you longterm deals and they often do, even in the minors, they just don't have to. When I was in the offseason between year 1 and year 2, the Astros kept offering me 4, 5 and 6 year deals worth a little under $1m a season (I simmed the offseason a bunch of times hoping they wouldn't cut Springer, but every single time, they did). Anyways, I didn't want to forgo my arbitration years, so I kept countering with a 2 year deal, they wanted to lock me down long term and kept declining, so I just never accepted a contract and let them renew me. They renewed me for like 550k though rather than the bare minimum.

Similar situation. Just finished my first full season in the MLB for the Giants (2015), leading the league in wins, ERA, and WHIP and winning the CY Young award. Offseason they offered a 7 year 9.1 million contract, which is about 1.2/1.3mil per year. I countered with a 2 year deal and they kept refusing so I finally signed a 3 year deal at about $1.4mil per year and miss the first year of arbitration, but get in the second year.

[Mitchrapp]

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I played a half a season, year 2, and I got 5 years for just over 4m. I'll take 3 years but they won't go lower than 4. If I decline with they then sign me on a one year deal?

[Madden's Jowels]

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I played a half a season, year 2, and I got 5 years for just over 4m. I'll take 3 years but they won't go lower than 4. If I decline with they then sign me on a one year deal?

Yes they'll just renew your contract at whatever price they want basically.

Since the money in the game has no actual use it's no big deal. You'll get your big contract during arbitration and then when you're a free agent

[canucksss]

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Yes they'll just renew your contract at whatever price they want basically.

Since the money in the game has no actual use it's no big deal. You'll get your big contract during arbitration and then when you're a free agent

it would be fun if you could buy stuffs...like house etc....then have the IRS hunt you down

[rjsuperfly66]

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Some of the old 2k games had the crib which was a cool concept. Newer 2k games at least incentivized contracts, giving you player development points in addition to what you earned during games. Those are some of the aspects where 2k14, despite a scripted feel, does beat the Show. Gameplay wise, the Show is better. But 2k was nice with that feel that you have to do certain things to be the best, the advertisements, the press conferences, the rivalries, etc.

As for roster management, it is all over the place which is disappointing. As I detailed previously, my guy became a bench player despite having a fantastic season, and the guy at AAA was a 48 new guy to the organization. So I play out the first month and a half, getting action every 3 or 4 days. My power was up (6 or 7 HR), but my average was down. The guy starting ahead of me was actually putting up terrific numbers, so when I talked to to Gm about starting, the quote was "Not at the moment, Ramirez is playing too well but well work on it." At least the quote matched the production. Yet, middle of May, I get the call up to AAA. Just wacky.

[canucksss]

Re: RTTS - Decreasing ratings and OVR?

Some of the old 2k games had the crib which was a cool concept. Newer 2k games at least incentivized contracts, giving you player development points in addition to what you earned during games. Those are some of the aspects where 2k14, despite a scripted feel, does beat the Show. Gameplay wise, the Show is better. But 2k was nice with that feel that you have to do certain things to be the best, the advertisements, the press conferences, the rivalries, etc.

I agree...the press conferences, advertisements, the "leeches" that trying to skin you of your money to do some bogus projects, etc. BUT please don't include the "nose" and "pass the ball"....hated it.

[bxphenom7]

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Anyone know exactly how long it takes for your attributes to decrease if you're not updating them? I remember it being six weeks I think on previous versions, but that doesn't seem to be right in mlb 14.

[aukevin]

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Anyone know exactly how long it takes for your attributes to decrease if you're not updating them? I remember it being six weeks I think on previous versions, but that doesn't seem to be right in mlb 14.

I think you get a month to 6 weeks before the yellow arrow shows up warning you, and then a week after that before it turns red and you lose a point.

[MLB Bob]

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I recently looked into this because my player had yellow arrows. It varies by attribute. and you can even go a few games to more than a week with a red arrow before you actually lose a point. I ignored the arrows until I actually lost a point and before the next game I added points to get me back to where I was so I didnt have to spend much at all to level back out. I was pretty high in ratings, some were 99's already and some were high 90's so I didnt want to increase but just not regress

[cardinalbird5]

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I do use guess pitch. I guess fastball upper outside until first strike (never swing unless that's the call), and guess fastball outer half for rest of at bat. Sitting fastball makes it easier to project and crush. As long as I don't swing at a ball, putting a great swing on the ball, hard out, gap, or home run. Always contact button swing, no analog stick for me. My baseball is still stuck in the 90s.

There was no GP in the 90's son.