Umpire Personalities

[baseballsim]

I'm assuming all umpire's still have their own personalities? In Diamond Dynasty (online head to head - PS4), there are only 4 different possible home plate umpire's in the rotation.

I know there was a wiki (now expired) and also a thread (in last gen.) that helped with umpire scouting. Has anyone attempted doing this on their own? I gave it a try but it seems like all umpires more or less turned out to be similar in the end.

Here's a couple (online head to head) games where I tried to take notes on missed strike calls:

Ed Drummond
vs rh: low inside, high inside,outside,low outside
vs lh inside

Mike Fillmore
vs lh high
vs rh: low outside four times,low,inside two times, high

I never tried it but I imagine the same note taking could be accomplished in a CPU vs CPU simulation.

[nomo17k]

Re: Umpire Personalities

There was a discussion on this long time ago in the last-gen subforum.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...es-thread.html

Not sure the tendencies have changed since MLB 12, but I actually tallied up the Strike % for all the umpires from CPU vs. CPU games (with the variable strikezone activated) and those numbers really didn't change all that much.

I do think there are differences in the consistency of strike zone on the black among umpires on botched calls once in a while, but I feel the inconsistencies are not magnified enough (or no umpires in the game are "consistently inconsistent") for us to notice strong tendencies.

Especially I don't really see any umpire's zone systematically offset (as in, many MLB umpires are very lenient on calling strikes on outside pitches). There might be some implication in why this isn't desired in the game, since the farthest PCI can move is on the edge of strike zone.


Another issue is I'm not sure how all these fit in with the way strike zones have become more consistent recently with all the tools MLB now has. Well at least strike zones used to be much less consistent before PITCH f/x and all...

[Knight165]

Re: Umpire Personalities

I would love more and more extreme(I guess only to a point) umpires and their tendencies.
I would also like to either have a preview of the umpires somewhere before the game on what kind of game he calls....(maybe just a description in the pause menu)...

M.K.
Knight165

[WaitTilNextYear]

Re: Umpire Personalities

I would love more and more extreme(I guess only to a point) umpires and their tendencies.
I would also like to either have a preview of the umpires somewhere before the game on what kind of game he calls....(maybe just a description in the pause menu)...

M.K.
Knight165

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[BeatArmy]

Re: Umpire Personalities

Or a slider, going from 1 to Laz Diaz.

Here's some interesting info...

Only if the pitching stamina slider is labelled from La Russa to Dusty Baker.

[kaptainkarl76]

Re: Umpire Personalities

I just wish the ump would stop adjusting his mask after every single pitch..

[Armor and Sword]

Re: Umpire Personalities

Clyde Washington and Woody Keller can kiss my grits.

I dread that crew......just dread them. They are blind.

[JayD]

Re: Umpire Personalities

I just wish the ump would stop adjusting his mask after every single pitch..

I notice that they mainly do that when they miss a strike call.

[kaptainkarl76]

Re: Umpire Personalities

I notice that they mainly do that when they miss a strike call.

I seem to notice it after almost every pitch..almost..not every time..but almost lol

[Russell_SCEA]

Re: Umpire Personalities

I just wish the ump would stop adjusting his mask after every single pitch..

I'm pretty sure we changed that a year or so ago.

[kaptainkarl76]

Re: Umpire Personalities

You might want to check again..Happens quite often in 15 PS4