An INSANE amount of choppers in front of homeplate

[Mike Lowe]

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Tracking this in my daily franchise, through 50 games, my starting C leads all Cs in assists with 43. Next highest are 2 guys w 35, one of which is the Perez from the Royals whom I've played 6 times (likely inflated due to my team also having too many of these ridiculous groundouts.

[OhioCub]

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This is probably my biggest gripe with the game over the years. I understand that if you top the ball it's gonna go straight into the ground. The problem is, in real life, because of the velocity of the pitch and the spin of the ball they almost always end up foul and they'll continue bouncing/rolling rather than suddenly losing all the velocity from the pitch and sitting there for the catcher to pick up.

[Seancefc]

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The only time I hit bloopers on pure analog is if I'm using the left stick to set a direction I want to hit the ball in, varies the type of ball I hit.

[Bobhead]

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If you guys are interested in a slider fix for this... lowering the Timing slider helps a ton. It shifts more of those hits foul, so that you don't waste as many at-bats.

[Greencollarbaseball]

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I dont see this at all. I have noticed a significant lack of location-related foul balls (as opposed to fouls caused by late/early timing), though. So I absolutely believe you... I'm just saying I don't personally see it.

On Hall of Fame (where I bat), the PCI and timing window are small enough that it doesn't happen.

Have you started to see it, now that someone has brought it up? Like how you never see a certain car until you buy it and then they're all over the road.


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[Bobhead]

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Have you started to see it, now that someone has brought it up? Like how you never see a certain car until you buy it and then they're all over the road.


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Haha... not really. But I think that's because I play with Zone, and 90% of the time, if I miss, I miss below the ball, not above it. So while we might be experiencing the same underlying problem, you're seeing choppers and dribblers, and I'm seeing pop-ups and weak fly balls. That's why I stressed that I wasn't refuting the possibility.

[eric7064]

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Way to many. It's ridiculous. Like OP said they don't happen often In real life. Also, I've noticed an insane amount of foul pop fly outs.

[OhioCub]

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Way to many. It's ridiculous. Like OP said they don't happen often In real life. Also, I've noticed an insane amount of foul pop fly outs.

Yep, I see the foul outs too. Seems as though alot of balls that would go out of play irl stay in play in the show.

[KBLover]

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If you guys are interested in a slider fix for this... lowering the Timing slider helps a ton. It shifts more of those hits foul, so that you don't waste as many at-bats.

Would Foul Frequency impact this? I've had this at 0 because of the "creating foul balls" language it uses ("increase fouls on balls that would have been just fair"), which...I do not want (if it's just fair, it's just fair).

I'd be more apt to try your Timing suggestion, but just wondering if my minimal Foul Frequency also contributes to the issue.

[Bobhead]

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Would Foul Frequency impact this? I've had this at 0 because of the "creating foul balls" language it uses ("increase fouls on balls that would have been just fair"), which...I do not want (if it's just fair, it's just fair).

I'd be more apt to try your Timing suggestion, but just wondering if my minimal Foul Frequency also contributes to the issue.

Reducing foul frequency would definitely exacerbate this issue by a significant amount. Some of those choppers are balls that would have gone foul on default.

I think you're misunderstanding the foul slider though. It doesn't force pitches to "magically" adjust foul mid-trajectory, nor does it cause balls to be incorrectly "called" as foul or fair. It adjusts your entire range, plate coverage, and timing window, so that more or fewer foul balls are naturally created based on your timing and swing location.

So a ball that is 4 inches away from your PCI with the slider on default might be hit foul out of play.
With the slider on 3, that ball might still be foul but catchable
With the slider on 0, that ball might stay in fair territory.

[HolyStroke3]

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Just lost a perfect game with 1 out in the ninth on this!!! My catcher stands straight up and doesn't move, by the time my pitcher fields the ball and throws to first the runner is safe. The next hitter got a legitimate hit so I'm not that mad, but still very frustrating.