MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

[kooch66]

I am in late Sept. in Franchise, and I have a pitcher who's first in the MVP vote but not even in the top 3 for the Cy. This seems weird to me. Anyone ever see anything like this?

[Factzzz]

Re: MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

I've seen this many times, happened to me a few times last year in SP RTTS, and i've seen it a couple times already this year. Doesn't make any sense.

[kooch66]

Re: MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

That's messed up. I'm in 2016 and the last 2 years were both fine. First year a hitter won MVP and the best pitcher won the Cy. Last year Darvish won both, but he probably deserved them both, with a 20-3 record and a million Ks. This year just doesn't make sense. My guy, Kyle Zimmer, a second year Royals pitcher, should br first or second for the Cy but isn't even top 3, and is first for the MVP. He's my best overall player, but not by a ton. I have 3 pitchers under 3era and a fourth slightly over 3. And we're winning the division by 20 games. Just doesn't make a lot of sense

[BlueJayPower]

Re: MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

I've seen this a lot. As good as this game is, the awards have been messed up for years in this series.

For the MVP, they don't factor in a candidate's position, OBP, steals, defense (I know that would be hard), and not really batting average either. It's almost entirely based on HR and RBI. For example, I see say David Ortiz win the award with stats like .269, 42 and 137 when Mike Trout hit .332 with 33 HR, 114 RBI and 47 steals or Cano hit .327 with 36 and 131 (that's just a general example not a specific one). This wouldn't happen in real life.

For the Cy Young, wins is almost exclusively the deciding factor. A guy will go (again just a general example) 16-5, 2.14 ERA with 230K in 219 innings only to lose out to someone that went 19-7, 3.78 ERA and 135K in 212 innings.

Now we all know examples of wrongfully awarded awards (Ichiro, Barry Zito anyone?) but this isn't the case here. It's the stats which are written in the game's code to determine the awards that need changing.

Another things that bugs me about awards is that only the top three candidates are shown. I'd love for that to expanded to at least top 10 if not 20, and letting us check candidates from previous seasons instead of just showing the past winners. Now all that would be make the game unreal.

[kev13dd]

Re: MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

Cy Young isn't overly win dependent- my closer currently sits at 3rd. Halfway through the season; only category he's dominating is ERA (sub .5). Only a handful of wins and top 10 in saves. Bizarre

Plus he isn't even top 3 for actual reliever awards...

K

[BlueJayPower]

Re: MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

Sorry man but I've been playing this series a long time and I strongly disagree. I tweak the rosters every year and in doing that I sim a lot of seasons to see how stats pan out. I always check the awards and the Cy Young is highly win dependent. Your case is a rare fluke occurrence and still stupid since your guy isn't in the top three relievers for the award.

[kev13dd]

Re: MVP Pitcher, no Cy Young (franchise)

Ugh my closer blew a save and fell out of the top 3. His replacement was interesting though...



K