The PCI Size

[jeffy777]

What exactly determines the size of the PCI? Is it mainly the plate vision rating for each hitter?

Is there also a way to increase/decrease the size of it with sliders?

The reason I ask is that it also changes in overall size based on difficulty (Veteran is bigger than All Star, etc.). I like the size of it on Veteran because my eyes are awful, but I much prefer the CPU pitching logic on All Star. Just wondering if there's a way to get the best of both worlds?

[bcruise]

Re: The PCI Size

What exactly determines the size of the PCI? Is it mainly the plate vision rating for each hitter?

Is there also a way to increase/decrease the size of it with sliders?

The reason I ask is that it also changes in overall size based on difficulty (Veteran is bigger than All Star, etc.). I like the size of it on Veteran because my eyes are awful, but I much prefer the CPU pitching logic on All Star. Just wondering if there's a way to get the best of both worlds?

It's a bunch of ratings, in relation to the pitcher's ratings as well. Contact, Power, and Vision all influence it in comparison to a pitcher's H/9 and K/9. That's why the devs constantly state that PCI is only meant to be taken as an estimate of a hitter's abilities and not as a bat - because there are a lot of attributes playing into it and the only thing the game can show us is the size of that PCI - not how the attributes add up to create that size.

Sliders do indeed affect it as well - or at least one that I know of for sure. Contact is the most noticeable, and the change can be seen in real-time during a game. If, during the same at bat, you observe the PCI size, pause and go to sliders and max human contact, then take the next pitch, when the battery resets you will see a significantly larger PCI shown on screen than before. This reflects that the hitter just got a pretty big contact boost from that change.

Don't try this with a first-pitch trait batter though - their PCI is huge to begin with and shrinks back after the first pitch, which won't truly show what I'm trying to demonstrate here.

[Mbunn1993]

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Isn't there a human vision slider? That would do it I think?


I play on Veteran, with CPU strike frequency set to 1. (early strike frequency) They throw less meatballs early in the count and allow you to learn to take more balls

[TheWarmWind]

Re: The PCI Size

Isn't there a human vision slider? That would do it I think?


I play on Veteran, with CPU strike frequency set to 1. (early strike frequency) They throw less meatballs early in the count and allow you to learn to take more balls

This. I also have it set to 1. CPU strike frequency isn't an apples to apples slider, it doesn't just increase balls. What it changes is how often the CPU tries to aim for the corners as opposed to just getting a strike. In essence, you improve their pitching logic without going up a difficulty level.

I'm right there with you Jeffy I can never spot the CH on All-Star so I gotta make veteran work for me.

To answer the original question, the main factors to the size of a PCI are the players contact and the pitcher's H/9 rating.

[Caulfield]

Re: The PCI Size

well, I guess that answers the age old question: Size doesnt matter.

I wonder if pci plays a part in either bunt type?

[jeffy777]

Re: The PCI Size

Thanks for the replies, fellas.

Just got back from vacation so I'm catching up on some games.

@bcruise Thanks for the explanation. As for the Contact slider, I don't like to increase this because it makes the timing feel funkier the more you bump it up. If I am fooled by an offspeed pitch or late on a heater, I want the swing to reflect that, so I like to leave it at 5.

@mbunn I wish there was a Vision slider, but unfortunately there isn't (did there used to be?). In a perfect world, that would be the slider that would globally increase the PCI size for each hitter on top of their ratings, without affecting swing timing as Contact does.

@TheWarmWind Right on. Just tried Veteran with the CPU Strike Frequency on 1 and so far I dig it. I was worried that it might make the pitching logic feel a bit too predictiable, but it was actually quite good.

@Caulfield lol