Should I raise my bunting skill to make it harder to bunt?

[IgotSyphillis]

Here's the problem. I like to bunt runners over at the end of close games. I have a player on my team with 97 speed rating and only a 20 bunting rating. However in this game his bunting rating doesn't matter and he drops bunts down the line like a 99 rated bunter. So when Im trying to sacrifice because my bunt rating is so low the 3rd baseman for the other team is playing back and I end up getting hits all the time. Which makes me feel cheap. I'm 101 games into my season and this dude is batting .525 on Legend difficulty. Pretty much all his hits are bunts. I've noticed it's also easier for any player who is a lefty with over 75 in speed and a crappy bunt rating to drop bunts and get hits around half the time. I don't do it in the early innings to be cheap. I do it when you actually should bunt. So does raising a bunt rating make the CPU less stupid about this or are bunts just still broken?

[KBLover]

Re: Should I raise my bunting skill to make it harder to bunt?

Depends on the situation.

For example, if a speedster is up with the GIDP a possibility - he'll probably have free reign because infield will be in DP depth. So anything not near the pitcher and fair will probably go for a bunt single unless they can get a force out somewhere out of it, which is usually unlikely. So if you like to do it to stay out of DPs, it probably won't have the desired effect. About the only time they'll play for the bunt in that situation is with the pitcher up.

With no one on, raising bunt ratings probably will get them to come in, though sometimes, they come in with a non-bunter up. They do this for Yelich in my carry over for whatever reason (he does not have a ton of speed, about 75, or good bunt ratings).

It wouldn't hurt anything to try it as an experiment. It would seem to have no real side effects (other than maybe you can drive some balls past a 3B drawn up even with the bag, but that's realistic).