HR rate in Playoffs increased ten fold - what could cause this?

[HubichYercocov]

I've been playing the playoffs in my Franchise as the Orioles and have hit over 25 HR's over only 9 games.

The rate at which these home runs are coming is crazy compared to how it was over the last 10-15 games of the regular season. Once the playoffs hit, the ball just flies off of my bat.

I do use a custom slider setting and for the entire regular season I had the power setting at 4. When the ball started flying out of the park, I reduced the power setting to 3 and then reduced it to 2. I'm still hitting the ball out of the park with ease, including 6 dingers with Nolan Reimold (mid 50's in power rating).

Just curious if anyone has experienced any such spike in stats when transitioning from the regular season to the playoffs or can offer any ideas as to why this could be happening.

Thanks!

[Caulfield]

Re: HR rate in Playoffs increased ten fold - what could cause this?

Has this happened to you in other post-seasons as well ? If not its probably just a stat anomaly .

[HubichYercocov]

Re: HR rate in Playoffs increased ten fold - what could cause this?

Has this happened to you in other post-seasons as well ? If not its probably just a stat anomaly .

I did consider that thought, however, the consistency and rate at which I am hitting them seems to go beyond that.

Especially taking into account I have lowered the Power stat and it seems to have no effect.

[KBLover]

Re: HR rate in Playoffs increased ten fold - what could cause this?

In my carryover Marlins franchise, Josh Hart had 5 HR in the LCS alone...in a 5 game series. He had just one in the NLDS and WS combined.

Other than Hart, guys that hit it out were guys I expect (fictional slugging CF, Chris Davis, fictional slugging 3B). And other guys, like Yelich, with next to no home run power (under 30 Power), didn't come close to getting one out.

A couple games where the CPU got the HR going were mostly from its sluggers. One CPU guy had 3 HR in a WS game...he has 92 power. That was all the HR he'd get in the WS.

HR might have been up a bit, but mostly from sluggers. Otherwise, the playoffs played out like usual, in general, for me. Pitching duels and one or two key innings with non-HR rallies made the difference as usual for that team.

My Red Sox team (fresh MLB16 fantasy franchise) - they did nothing at the plate. Joey Gallo was it. Everyone else was horrible, Schwarber, Sano, Trumbo vs LHP, Russell, Mateo - all of them bad. If anything my hitting disappeared.

So in my case it was probably anomaly/just not my series for Red Sox and pretty much normal for my Marlins.

I can't say definitively nothing is "going on". Even in the regular season, some guys just seem "on" or "off" that game, independent of their overall hot/cold streak.

BTW, I play on 2 power slider - it doesn't necessarily kill HR as much as it used to. It makes a subtle difference and probably has other impacts with the batted ball velocity and hit type (FB/LD/GB).

[HubichYercocov]

Re: HR rate in Playoffs increased ten fold - what could cause this?

Nice info in your post. Thanks for that.


It's definitely possible that I've just hit a stride and the stars are all aligning, but man if it doesn't feel like my bats are all corked.

I still have yet to play the World Series (against the Giants, so the starting pitching is stacked), so we'll see if this trend continues.