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  • cubby blue
    Pro
    • Mar 2012
    • 620

    #1

    Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

    Is there anything you can do about this? Maybe fire the third base coach? Any selections you can make to conservative?

    I'm 19 games away from finishing my season. 5.5 games behind the wildcard. Just got through playing a game where a stupid send to home probably cost me the game. There's at least 5 games that I would have won because my third base coach sends the runner too many times when he shouldn't. I know there's going to be poor baserunning decisions in baseball, but I'm really fed up. Just too many mistakes made.

    I guess I just need to learn how to run the bases manually.

    I'm probably not making the playoffs!!!!
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  • dehn44
    Rookie
    • May 2013
    • 5

    #2
    Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

    Originally posted by cubby blue
    Is there anything you can do about this? Maybe fire the third base coach? Any selections you can make to conservative?

    I'm 19 games away from finishing my season. 5.5 games behind the wildcard. Just got through playing a game where a stupid send to home probably cost me the game. There's at least 5 games that I would have won because my third base coach sends the runner too many times when he shouldn't. I know there's going to be poor baserunning decisions in baseball, but I'm really fed up. Just too many mistakes made.

    I guess I just need to learn how to run the bases manually.

    I'm probably not making the playoffs!!!!

    Here's a tip: Don't use auto baserunning.

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    • cubby blue
      Pro
      • Mar 2012
      • 620

      #3
      Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

      Originally posted by dehn44
      Here's a tip: Don't use auto baserunning.
      I probably will in the future. The show can't get this aspect of the game right.
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      • nova91
        MVP
        • Oct 2009
        • 2074

        #4
        Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

        The 3rd base coaches are just stupid in this game. He does send entirely too many runners to home. I play a lot of RTTS and I can't count how many times I've seen him send a player home only to get thrown out at the plate on plays that aren't because the OF has a cannon for an arm or the throw is just that good but because he sent someone home when he shouldn't have.
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        • p00p1
          Pro
          • Aug 2002
          • 987

          #5
          Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

          I've been playing the Show for 2 years and for the life of me I can't control the baserunners. So about halfway through my first season in 2015, I changed to auto baserunning and have been pretty happy to have that mess out of my hands. The only thing I seem to be able to do is queue up steals.

          It would be awesome if they let me override the auto baserunning decisions, I hate having runners go for triples when they hit second base as the cut off man is catching the ball. Anyone know if that is possible? I know it defeats the purpose of CPU controlled actions, but it would be a huge plus. Next time it happens, I'm going to try to pause the game and switch back to manual controls, hopefully that works.

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          • CaseIH
            MVP
            • Sep 2013
            • 3945

            #6
            Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

            I use auto baserunning, started using it a few years ago, because baserunning has always been a issue with MLBTS, but now because of meds that make my thinking and reactions not quick enough I have no choice but to use it. So what I do is basically chalk it up to bad baserunning when it happens in the game, and I don't see a big difference in the mistakes on the bases in this game from real life, as you do see bad baserunning actually quite often IRL. I do wish the game did it a little better, but Id definitely rather see some mistakes than it be perfect, because that's realistic.
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            • cusefan74
              MVP
              • Jul 2010
              • 2408

              #7
              Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

              I see it once in a while, more then I want to, but 75% of the time it works out ok for me.

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              • DarthRambo
                MVP
                • Mar 2008
                • 6630

                #8
                Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

                Yes it really sucks. Also hate when they are thrown out by a mile at third. I continue to use auto base running because I feel it's fair since the cpu has no choice. That and I'm not good at manual.

                Nonetheless, the base running needs major work. In the five years I've played this game the base running has been this way. And I've never once seen a runner caught in a pickle.

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                • mlblover15
                  3X MLBTS Champion
                  • Dec 2004
                  • 4144

                  #9
                  Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

                  ok first off...

                  are any of you using the default rosters or adjusted rosters with different player ratings?

                  are you using along with default player roster settings default sliders?

                  or

                  are you using a default rosters with a adjusted slider set that lowers base running speed?

                  are you using a adjusted roster that has maybe lowered certain players base running numbers?

                  whenever you have these issues folks these are the questions you need to ask yourself. go in and check all this out...

                  i play with default rosters and sliders and have had very little issues with this...

                  i still dont see how (no offense to roster makers on this site) anyone can determine any of this for any player.. do you all have a secret stat cast account none of us do? do you all work for stat companies secretly?

                  i feel the default rosters are fine out of the box, each players ratings are good...

                  remember if default sliders are 100% of that players ratings and your only going down 10 clicks to 0 each click in reality it taking away 10% of that players ability to do what he is supposed to do.

                  So if you have say a player that in real life is a speed burner like a Billy Hamilton and he has a speed rating in the game of 95, and you adjust that base running speed or whatever it is down 1 click you just took him down to an 85 or around that...

                  when you lower speed sliders s you slow them down from what they were meant to be out of the box...

                  just like another one i never understood... the boost in fielder reaction...

                  each player has a built in ratio for this... when you put it up over default (100%) you are giving him super human ability to anticipate any ball headed his way...

                  Does anyone really put any thought into any of this when they mess with player ratings and or sliders.. seriously...
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                  • tessl
                    All Star
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 5683

                    #10
                    Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

                    Prior to the patch it was a problem. I haven't noticed it as much since the patch.

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                    • p00p1
                      Pro
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 987

                      #11
                      Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

                      Default player ratings, default sliders.

                      I don't mind if it makes sense in the game for players to gamble, but a few games ago Joe Panik got thrown out going to third on a ball that didn't reach the warning track. Was the bottom of the ninth, 1 out, down by two runs, and he rounded second as the relay man caught the ball, out by a mile. I went and checked his ratings, and his baserunning aggressiveness was like 16.

                      I'm happy with the auto baserunning like 90% of the time. For that other 10%, I just wish there was an option to override the cpu decision and take control.

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                      • cusefan74
                        MVP
                        • Jul 2010
                        • 2408

                        #12
                        Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

                        Originally posted by p00p1
                        Default player ratings, default sliders.

                        I don't mind if it makes sense in the game for players to gamble, but a few games ago Joe Panik got thrown out going to third on a ball that didn't reach the warning track. Was the bottom of the ninth, 1 out, down by two runs, and he rounded second as the relay man caught the ball, out by a mile. I went and checked his ratings, and his baserunning aggressiveness was like 16.

                        I'm happy with the auto baserunning like 90% of the time. For that other 10%, I just wish there was an option to override the cpu decision and take control.

                        What's his baserunning rating? Aggressiveness is one thing, but if he just is a bad baserunner and makes dumb decisions that's another. I'm sure it doesn't matter, it's just one of those things that happen with auto baserunning.

                        I have seen a few guys trying to stretch doubles into triples thrown out, but never a guy going first to third.

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                        • sl8b
                          Rookie
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 307

                          #13
                          Re: Anybody else using auto baserunning and tired of the stupid sends to home

                          Originally posted by mlblover15
                          ok first off...

                          are any of you using the default rosters or adjusted rosters with different player ratings?

                          are you using along with default player roster settings default sliders?

                          or

                          are you using a default rosters with a adjusted slider set that lowers base running speed?

                          are you using a adjusted roster that has maybe lowered certain players base running numbers?

                          whenever you have these issues folks these are the questions you need to ask yourself. go in and check all this out...

                          i play with default rosters and sliders and have had very little issues with this...

                          i still dont see how (no offense to roster makers on this site) anyone can determine any of this for any player.. do you all have a secret stat cast account none of us do? do you all work for stat companies secretly?

                          i feel the default rosters are fine out of the box, each players ratings are good...

                          remember if default sliders are 100% of that players ratings and your only going down 10 clicks to 0 each click in reality it taking away 10% of that players ability to do what he is supposed to do.

                          So if you have say a player that in real life is a speed burner like a Billy Hamilton and he has a speed rating in the game of 95, and you adjust that base running speed or whatever it is down 1 click you just took him down to an 85 or around that...

                          when you lower speed sliders s you slow them down from what they were meant to be out of the box...

                          just like another one i never understood... the boost in fielder reaction...

                          each player has a built in ratio for this... when you put it up over default (100%) you are giving him super human ability to anticipate any ball headed his way...

                          Does anyone really put any thought into any of this when they mess with player ratings and or sliders.. seriously...
                          That is why I also use default rosters with no changes to the sliders.

                          To the original post, I have seen the same issue when playing MOM and it drives me crazy. I have switched back to playing the game most of the time because of that. I haven't tried since the latest patch, but maybe I need to.

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