MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

[shark547]

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Maybe I am the only one, but, I don't care for the increasing difficulty on RTTS levels affecting pitch speed. Not very realistic for a 95 mph fastball to be faster in MLB than in AA.

Pitch speeds should be constant thru all levels. I am all for increasing the abilities to make those levels harder. Just not things that don't really make sense.

Another thing I would like to change is if I make a pitcher in RTTS he shouldn't be so slow that I can't ever turn a play where the pitcher covers first. As it is now my pitcher can't hardly ever get to first base in time even on the slowest runners.

[Lovesports]

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What about competitive balance picks?

Let me ask you this, when is the last time a balance pick was traded and how often does it actually happen? I don't think it's needed. If we're able to make trades with up to 5 players and possibly a 3 team trade, I would be absolutely ecstatic.

[Stroehms]

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I wish Online games had full/Hybrid presentation.



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[HypoLuxa13]

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I've tried posting this elsewhere, but I feel it's going ignored.

I'd love a simple auto-save or manual save function in the middle of Fantasy Drafts, similar to what Madden does with their fantasy drafts.

I like to completely mix up the players, teams, and prospects (with OSFM) and have an alternate universe thing go on (since I don't like my baseball to mimic reality too much), but one thing that constantly gets in the way are hardware or software crashes.

Point is, I've lost so many drafts to crashes that come out of nowhere, with no warning that it was about to happen. Some of these drafts can take hours, and it's always tremendously disappointing to have it happen when I'm just getting satisfied with how things are.

Just a save button. That's all I ask for. Or an auto-save at the end of each round. Or something. Anything.

I kind of remember the Draft crash in either MLB 15 or maybe MLB 14 on PS3. But I seem to remember it being patched and not an issue since then. Did you experience it in MLB 16?

[HarlemYankee]

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But spring training doesnt actually mean anything in real life, its glorified practice. There is no correlation from spring training performance to regular season performance. Veteran pitchers are hitting the back 9 before the game is even over.

That's not entirely true... How many times have you seen someone come from seemingly nowhere and win themselves a spot in the show due to a strong Spring Training? And how many times have you seen a roster spot decided by a ST positional battle? Whether it's a 5th spot in the rotation, 4th OF, backup 1B, backup C etc... Spring Training matters for the unproven players. I mean, if Gary Sanchez didn't get only one hit during ST last season, Austin Romine would never have made the team.

[HarlemYankee]

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Not a new feature, more of a fix of a current feature. Fix the check swing referals so they actually call it a swing every now and again. It's currently just a waste of time as 99 times out of a 100, if not more, the 1st/3rd base umpire says no swing. It's genuinely a complete shock if they do call it a swing, I think I've seen it maybe twice?

It's normally called a strike if you are trying to check with a power swing. You have to barely tap square in order to have it called a ball...

As far as analog goes... I'm not sure

[tessl]

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Let me ask you this, when is the last time a balance pick was traded and how often does it actually happen? I don't think it's needed. If we're able to make trades with up to 5 players and possibly a 3 team trade, I would be absolutely ecstatic.

I'm not the person you were addressing the question to but my comment on trading competitive balance picks is the show does not represent milb or the draft IRL - and I'm glad. The vast majority of draft picks never make MLB. The game also doesn't replicate international signing system - and I'm glad.

As it is the developers struggle in franchise mode to keep the game realistic in future years. It would be a complete mess if they had to exponentially increase the number of players in the game and exponentially increase the difficulty of having a balanced game in future years.

Regarding trades - I use strict self imposed trade restrictions to limit my ability to rob the cpu in trades. Ability to trade a compensation pick would only serve to add more complexity to the already difficult trade AI and that is time better spent on other things. Ability to trade 5 players would be "realistic" but would force the developers to spend countless hours reworking the trade AI and who knows what that would produce.

I don't like to be the one to pour cold water on someone's idea but I see more downside than upside in this proposed change.

[Greencollarbaseball]

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That's not entirely true... How many times have you seen someone come from seemingly nowhere and win themselves a spot in the show due to a strong Spring Training? And how many times have you seen a roster spot decided by a ST positional battle? Whether it's a 5th spot in the rotation, 4th OF, backup 1B, backup C etc... Spring Training matters for the unproven players. I mean, if Gary Sanchez didn't get only one hit during ST last season, Austin Romine would never have made the team.

All this stuff can happen now. You just have to do it manually. YOU have to put in that 4th outfielder if you want to get a look at him. YOU have to start that 5th/fringe starter. The user has to actually PLAY ST games if they want to have position battles. If you play a bubble guy in ST and he does well, then, have him break with the team. If he does poorly, then you send him down. All of this is already in the game, it just requires you to actually play.

(This post isn't meant to be condescending or even directed at you. I've just read several posts on here about people complaining that ST doesn't mean anything when it actually can and does if you want it to.)


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[mrCPUgeek]

MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

All this stuff can happen now. You just have to do it manually. YOU have to put in that 4th outfielder if you want to get a look at him. YOU have to start that 5th/fringe starter. The user has to actually PLAY ST games if they want to have position battles. If you play a bubble guy in ST and he does well, then, have him break with the team. If he does poorly, then you send him down. All of this is already in the game, it just requires you to actually play.

(This post isn't meant to be condescending or even directed at you. I've just read several posts on here about people complaining that ST doesn't mean anything when it actually can and does if you want it to.)


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I always play out my spring training games. That is probably one of my favorite times of my franchise. I actually make a spreadsheet and pre-assign the lineup for all of spring. Same with the pitchers down to how many innings, etc. it's a great way to get a look/feel fit your young players.



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[xBravesx]

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Obviously collisions would be nice to see, but if that is not possible, how about outfielders and infielders having to call for the ball on a fly out or pop out to prevent "confusion" among the defense. If they do not "call off" other defenders positioning to settle under the ball, perhaps catch ratings could be effected. Therefore, this would make defensive ratings even more necessary while at the same time involving the user with a button press to "call off" another player(s) on the field. Could be good to be further involved in the defense.

Any thoughts?

[legacyme3]

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I kind of remember the Draft crash in either MLB 15 or maybe MLB 14 on PS3. But I seem to remember it being patched and not an issue since then. Did you experience it in MLB 16?

I had it happen on three separate occasions, and each time sent a bug report with video through the PS4. It was really disappointing, because the main reason I was so hyped for 16 was because they fixed it, supposedly. :/

Instead of drafing the rosters into the way you want them, have you considered taking a roster and setting it up the way you want it through Player Movement, then taking that roster into franchise mode without a draft? I know it's less than ideal, but it could conceivably work until (if ever) Sony gets the bug fixed.

I'd considered it, but every time I get to doing that, I just lose interest, because I don't like the way the interface is set up for that. To handle it that way, I'd essentially have to get the entire player list, hold the draft on my computer with a spreadsheet, and search through the player database to find lesser prospects I'm not quite as familiar with on a name basis.

Basically, we're looking at a week-long process for me, instead of a night-long process. I just don't have that much patience, honestly, so it's not at all efficient for me. At that point, I'd almost rather just enter fantasy draft, and auto-draft completely random teams (which still isn't what I want, but it's better than spending a week on something I should be able to do in a single night).

It's something I hate complaining about, because I have no complaints with the game itself. It's wonderful, and I plan on buying it day one, like every year since The Show came out, regardless of whether or not they address my concerns.

Would just be neat to have a simple save button there.

[HarlemYankee]

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All this stuff can happen now. You just have to do it manually. YOU have to put in that 4th outfielder if you want to get a look at him. YOU have to start that 5th/fringe starter. The user has to actually PLAY ST games if they want to have position battles. If you play a bubble guy in ST and he does well, then, have him break with the team. If he does poorly, then you send him down. All of this is already in the game, it just requires you to actually play.

(This post isn't meant to be condescending or even directed at you. I've just read several posts on here about people complaining that ST doesn't mean anything when it actually can and does if you want it to.)

You're not wrong, but I think what I was getting at is to have the Spring Training games actually decide certain situations. IE - if a player has a strong Spring, they get a ratings boost to actually make them a respectable Major Leaguer. How many times in real life do you see someone who was previously thought of as an organizational depth-type player get a jump of like 15-20 points after a strong Spring/April? Just pulling from the most extreme case in the recent past... Yangervis Solarte probably wasn't even in the game in 2013, but once he was added to the ST rosters and he raked, he undoubtedly raised his Overall Rating in the game from around a 55 to a 75...

[Sip_16]

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You're not wrong, but I think what I was getting at is to have the Spring Training games actually decide certain situations. IE - if a player has a strong Spring, they get a ratings boost to actually make them a respectable Major Leaguer. How many times in real life do you see someone who was previously thought of as an organizational depth-type player get a jump of like 15-20 points after a strong Spring/April? Just pulling from the most extreme case in the recent past... Yangervis Solarte probably wasn't even in the game in 2013, but once he was added to the ST rosters and he raked, he undoubtedly raised his Overall Rating in the game from around a 55 to a 75...

With that thought there are numerous times where a guy has had a hot spring and forced the teams hand in keeping him, yet when the season started they were garbage, because they weren't great players just had a hot streak during games that don't mean anything. Simon Pond for the Blue Jays in 2004 comes to mind, the guy hit unbelievable in spring and hit about .160 during the regular season. Yes some guys continue and be a nice surprise but if guys are getting boost from exhibition games you have players maybe over performing what is realistic for probably most of them.

[HarlemYankee]

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With that thought there are numerous times where a guy has had a hot spring and forced the teams hand in keeping him, yet when the season started they were garbage, because they weren't great players just had a hot streak during games that don't mean anything. Simon Pond for the Blue Jays in 2004 comes to mind, the guy hit unbelievable in spring and hit about .160 during the regular season. Yes some guys continue and be a nice surprise but if guys are getting boost from exhibition games you have players maybe over performing what is realistic for probably most of them.

While you're disagreeing with me, it's kind of my thoughts exactly... I think if something like this were to be implemented into a game, there would be an element of randomness... For every three or four players that truly make that quantum leap forward from flawed player to superstar (think Encarnacion/Bautista), or complete unknown to respectable Major Leaguer (Solarte) there are the majority that just happened to have a hot streak during the Spring and fall back to earth.

Maybe I'm just talking about the ratings system more than Spring Training, so I digress haha

[enyc718]

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Not sure if this has been mentioned, but i wish the availability of the game logs would be available after you exit the game and go to the calander.