Manage Only Mode Thread

[My993C2]

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I was going to post this in an existing "The game hates me" thread, except the thread I found was locked. Regardless, the game clearly hates me.

I am playing MoM games in a Season mode and the first three weeks of the season controlling the Boston Red Sox, things were looking very very good. I was in 1st place with a record of 14-5. But since then the wheels have fallen off the bus as I have lost 7 of my last 8 games and I am not losing close games. I am getting blown out in every one of these recent losses. I can't pitch (starting pitchers are tanking big time and all the relievers are all gassed due to the high work load they have had to do during this losing streak), I can't hit. Well not 100% true. Mookie Betts and Xander Boegarts are hitting. But everyone else is an easy out and my players can't field either. If I was controlling the players you could say that I just suck. But I am playing MoM games here and I do sit players when they are tired or cold. But when almost the whole team is cold, who do you sit?

So yeah the game hates me. I am sure it won't hate me all season long. I am sure sooner or later this constant losing will come to an end. But right now I am losing my mind. I have to give the real world managers credit for not going postal when their players tank.

Edited to add: make that 8 losses in the last 9 games.

[Grinder12000]

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Lost 8 out of 9 here also. Game hates me. Seriously - so many tiny things go wrong. I was only a .500 club anyway but man it's getting frustrating. I don't mind losing but geez.

I think there most be an AI cheat code in there LOL

My 2ND has 89 ABs and is batting .097 LOL Bullpen sucks.

[armymule]

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Is anyone else getting an insane amount of strikeouts, complete games, and shutouts in MOM and CPU vs CPU games? These things are ruining the game for me and I can't find any combination of settings that fixes it.

[miamikb2001]

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Is anyone else getting an insane amount of strikeouts, complete games, and shutouts in MOM and CPU vs CPU games? These things are ruining the game for me and I can't find any combination of settings that fixes it.

I have seen lots of stikeouts,but not alot of cg's or shutouts.But i play Qc only and use some sliders based off some of Nomo's early testing.I might actually be getting too much hitting lol.

[My993C2]

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Lost 8 out of 9 here also. Game hates me. Seriously - so many tiny things go wrong. I was only a .500 club anyway but man it's getting frustrating. I don't mind losing but geez.

I think there most be an AI cheat code in there LOL

My 2ND has 89 ABs and is batting .097 LOL Bullpen sucks.

My present losing skid is likely a direct result of myself temporarily adjusting my sliders to bring more offense into the game and bring the BAs up across the league. Like most people I started the season with close to default slider settings which resulted in very low scoring games and low BAs (I did this for the first 3 weeks of the season). To date I have been able to play every game as either a MoM game with my team and as CPU vs CPU games with Fast Play and QCs enabled for the rest of the league. BAs across the league are still not where they should be, but I did succeed in bringing them up across the league where the majority of the players are now in the mid to low 200s whereas many were below 200 prior to bumping up the sliders just under 2 weeks ago. I was hoping to play with the accelerated sliders a littler longer. But I think it is time to tone them down and I am leaning towards trying Nomo's 4/30 set as my MoM games appeared to be effected more with the accelerated sliders settings than the CPU vs CPU games (though some of the CPU games were very high scoring). What's weird is that the accelerated sliders appeared to effect my team more than they did my MoM opponents. The accelerated sliders rocked my starters into performing poorly where they were constantly behind and it resulted in me having to bring relievers in often very early in my games and after two weeks playing with these high offensive sliders my entire pitching staff is gassed with low energy levels and low confidence.

So even though I claim "The game hates me". I kind of did this to myself. LOL ...

That's okay. I may have fallen out of 1st and into 3rd place in the division. But I am only 2 games out and it's still only the first week of May. Hopefully Nomo's 4/30 recommendations stabilize not only my MoM games but also the CPU vs CPU games. But I did need to do something about all those low BAs. It's just not right seeing half the league batting below 200.

[Grinder12000]

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How we doing out there in MoM land.

I'm 33 games in, averages and scores are moving up as the weather get warmer. One thing I have noticed is it seems the game does not understand temperature in the northern stadiums as it is always a little on the below average side.

also BE CAREFUL bunting with 3 balls on you because if you miss that ball 4 bunt the game locks up and you have to start all over by rebooting.

My temperature sliders seem to be working and I'm keeping track of runs scores with the every game slider tweaks

[My993C2]

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How we doing out there in MoM land.

No improvement with my team's losing trend. I did manage to win a few games a few days ago, but the team is back in their losing ways. My batters and fielders aren't exactly doing well. But the cause of the losing trend is my pitching staff which is well on it's way to becoming one of the worst if not the worst staff in the league. They just can't throw strikes. They only throw 1st pitch strikes about 30% of the time. 2-0, 3-0 and 3-1 counts are not the exception, they are the rule. My pitchers usually are throwing 20+ pitches every inning. 25 or more pitches in an inning is not the exception, it is the norm. Right now the pitching staff is 28th in ERA, 30th in strike outs and 30th in walks. I am not sure if there is a league wide stat for wild pitches, but they have to be near the bottom of the league there as well and on hit batters. On the opposite end, my batters like swinging on the 1st or 2nd pitch of their plate appearances. 0-2 counts are not the exception, they are the norm. When you only get a hit 20% of the time and you are swinging on 1st or 2nd pitches and making contact, well it's usually an easy day for the opposition starter to go 7+ innings.

I am not sure what is going on. I do rest players when they get tired and get cold. I do mound visits when the pitcher's confidence takes a hit in the game. But little seems to be working these last 3 weeks as the team has managed to win only 6 of the last 20 games.

[mannyt55]

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I just caught up to real life with my MoM Mets franchise. (Not counting tonight's real life game).

Through 34 games here is how they compare to each other:
Franchise Mets
21-13 - 135 RS - 96 RA - 41HR - .235AVG - .307OBP - 2.72ERA - 322K - 93BB

Real Life Mets
21-13 - 143 RS - 103 RA - 51HR - .237AVG - .319OBP - 2.86ERA - 303K - 73BB

Very much so enjoying the franchise. Matz and Wheeler (I started with OSFM V2 real injuries off) are struggling for me. Harvey and deGrom are dominating. Thor is striking out everyone he sees. It's Championship or fail for both Mets.

[miamikb2001]

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I just caught up to real life with my MoM Mets franchise. (Not counting tonight's real life game).



Through 34 games here is how they compare to each other:

Franchise Mets

21-13 - 135 RS - 96 RA - 41HR - .235AVG - .307OBP - 2.72ERA - 322K - 93BB



Real Life Mets

21-13 - 143 RS - 103 RA - 51HR - .237AVG - .319OBP - 2.86ERA - 303K - 73BB



Very much so enjoying the franchise. Matz and Wheeler (I started with OSFM V2 real injuries off) are struggling for me. Harvey and deGrom are dominating. Thor is striking out everyone he sees. It's Championship or fail for both Mets.

Stats look really good What sliders are you using if i may ask? And also Qc or regular Mom or both

[mannyt55]

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Stats look really good What sliders are you using if i may ask? And also Qc or regular Mom or both

I started with Grinder's MoM sliders and made adjustments after every few games. Where it's at, I feel pretty damn happy with it. I've had 1-0 games, 8-0 blowout wins, 11-1 blowout losses. Pretty awesome. Only thing I can't fix is the stolen bases. It's more that my guys always slide feet first into 2nd, which is damn near a guarantee out. Also, never QC, I go full game.

[Grinder12000]

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Yea - I've made a few tweaks and continue the temperature sliders which is pretty fun (for me).

I'm running into a small problem where my starting pitchers are not getting 100% rested after 4 games off. Is this normal? They are getting maybe 85% rested on this 17 game without a day off streak.

[mannyt55]

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I noticed that on a few occasions during long stretches but it always happened to a pitcher that went deep into the pitch count the previous start.

[Grinder12000]

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Being a weather geek I have been keeping track of the game time temps and they are low in all ball parks. I might have to adjust my "temperature sliders" up 10 degrees for each game.

[My993C2]

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Apologies if this question should not have its own thread (let me know where I should ask if that is the case), but are there are any improvements to this mode this year? Thanks

Sacrifice bunting and pickoffs at 1st base have been improved.

In past years when you instructed your batter to lay down a sacrifice bunt, the batter would attempt to bunt the ball no matter how much the pitch may have been out of the strike zone. This would always result in a strike on bad pitches. This year, the animation still makes it look like the batter is attempting to bunt. But if the pitch is well out of the strike zone, the pitch will be called a ball. Not quite where we would like it to be, but definitely an improvement.

Pick offs to 1st base are back in the game. Now I have yet to pick off a base runner at 1st. But I have caught the base runner in a run down on at least two occasions when I threw the ball to 1st and on another occasion it appeared that the base runner was caught in the run down. But the guy I had on 1st base was just a sub and he never threw the ball to 2nd. Was this a bug not throwing to 2nd? or was it a case where the bloke playing 1st base was a substitute with minimal fielding skills? Either way, like the bunting, it's not quite where we would like it to be. But it's still an improvement over previous years.

[Grinder12000]

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But the stat screens are all f*cked up. If I would have known you could not get team totals I would not have purchased '16. You can't even see LHB/RHB averages for pitchers unless you are in the game.

There is good and bad.