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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
I know I keep referencing this.... but will reference it again. Your team will absolutely build a team around you if you control the offseason moves, trading, and activity at the trade deadline. You do that by manually saving your RTTS file after each series or however often you think is safe. If your team makes a stupid trade....you just go back to the save file and reload from that point. Around the trade deadline there is a flurry of activity and sometimes you will have to sim a game or two through there and get the outcome you want. Same for the offseason... save at the end of the regular season and sim through the offseason checking your roster. In some cases you may lose a player or two...which is normal when they are trying to pay YOU and everyone around you. An example of this is my Atlanta Braves save. I'm in May of the 2021 season. Albeis, Swanson, Acuna Jr. have all developed into stars. Freeman is still there (in high 80's but starting to decline). Team added M. Sanu at 3B in a deal at the deadline in the 2019 season. There are some names missing sure..... Teheran, E. Inciarte, etc.... but most of the young nucleus is still together.
O. Albeis
D. Swanson
F. Freeman
B. Tate (My player)
M. Sanu
R. Acuna Jr.
K. Schwarber (against Right hand)/Aaron Hicks (Against Lefties)
Rob Brantley
Pitcher of day
Rotation is:
Jose Berrios
Folty
M. Pineda
J. Quintana
S. Newcomb
As you can see.... hell of a team built around me. Won the World Series in 2019, Got swept out of the World Series in 2020 by the Angels. There are a few threads not too far back covering some of the different ways to control the saves. I highly recommend it.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Had an absolutely awesome weekend playing. Player has developed into one heck of a defensive RF. Robbing HR's, diving catches, etc....loves these as much as hitting. If anyone is bored at work or surfing around I loaded some awesome replays of some of the plays across the last few days. Gonna put together an all defense video using sharefactory somewhere at the end of all this....
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Wondering if anyone has noticed this issue. I'm nearly certain it's a problem with the sim engine when playing games.
The pitching staff sucks. Way too often. By no means is the pitching staff great, but it's middle of the road for the league standards. However, when playing they routinely give up ridiculous innings. 5-9 runs in an inning out of nowhere. Last season at the end of the year I checked out team stats and we were in dead last in nearly every category, and by quite a substantial margin too. The only thing we weren't was strikeouts. But who cares if you're top 10 in strike outs when you're dead last in every single other category.
I never checked team stats in last years game like that, but I noticed those type of games all the time in MLB 17 as well. As the Angels with a pretty good pitching staff we'd always end up with high scoring games. The only reason we still won quite a bit was because we had 2 99 ovr players (myself and Trout) as well as the rest of the support crew. My player and Trout always ended as 1 and 2 as MVP because of the amount of offense we generated.
This leads me to believe it's a sim engine issue. The way the game sims in game when playing RttS in comparison to how it just sims the results of simmed game are vastly different. This causes your pitching staff to suck for some reason. It also seems to get more prevalent/noticeable the more seasons you get into a RttS career. This makes me believe part of the issue is progression/regression of pitching attributes and how the sim engine reacts to these.
I just had a 2-2 home game where they had 1 man on 1st and 2 outs in the top of the 9th. Thought "great, 1 out away and my player is due up in potentially a tie game in the bottom of the 9th" only to have my player come up to bat to what was now a 7-2 game. 5 runs let in at the top of the 9th after already having 2 outs. I just shut the game off out of frustration.
And before someone uses the Ramone "That's baseball" line. I'm well aware pitching staffs can have meltdowns. I'm well aware there are 5+ run innings in baseball. But the frequency that these kind of innings happen in RttS are just far too frequent. Last year it's how pretty much all of our playoff runs ended. It's just not funComment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Some of the pitchers on my teams are questionable even when I am playing the full games. But I am always leery of simming to the end of a game once I am playing with one of my RTTS starting pitchers and my pitcher gets removed from the game. There has definitely been many times when I left the games with the lead only to watch the bullpen blow it. Yes this can happen in baseball. But the MLB The Show sim engine (not just RTTS) seems rather random at times.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
My CF made it to the Majors and I‘m absolutely not made for the MLB so far.
I‘ve crushed it in AA, made the Majors in the offseason and produced a batting average of 0.092 so they‘ve send me back down to AAA where I‘ve crushed it again. Right before the AAA Allstar game my guy ruptured his Achilles and missed the remainder of season 2. In season 3 I‘m back in the MLB as a starter and the pitchers beat me up again (0.197 average). I swing and miss way too much and when I put the bat on the ball I hit weak balls for easy outs. I‘m not having fun in the Majors right now.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
What batting difficulty, hitting interface and slider settings are you using? As an example you may think you are hitting on the "All Star" level because that is what your menus say. But that only applies when you are playing in AAA. Once you have moved up to the Show, if your menus say "All Star" you are actually hitting at the "Hall of Fame" difficulty level and you may want to consider altering the hitting difficulty and/or adjust your sliders. To me it's about finding the right balance. I want to be challenged when I hit, but I also don't want to [censored]uck.
So far I only have RTTS pitchers playing at the MLB level in this game. My main position player is still only in AAA while another position player is still stuck in AA (I like taking my time with these guys). But for sure I have noticed a whole different vibe to the game when I am pitching with the two RTTS pitchers who play at the MLB level (a SP and a Closer) and I need to be extra careful how I pitch because of the raised difficulty levels.
Once again the menus may say I am pitching or hitting at "All Star", but for my players have made it to the show, in reality I am pitching at "HoF" or worse if the menu says I am playing at "HoF", I am actually playing on "Legend". One day when all my players have awesome skills, I hope to be able to play on "Legend". But I know right now I struggle with both hitting and pitching on "HoF" let alone "Legend" because my players OVRs are only in the 60s and 70s.Last edited by My993C2; 05-07-2018, 02:26 PM.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
It‘s like you said I‘m playing on „All-Star“ difficulty with directional hitting. I‘m aware that I‘m actually hitting on HoF in the Majors but I never struggled this much on The Show 17 with the exact same settings. I‘m not mad though. I just wish too finally get used to the MLB pitchers I‘m facing. My guy is also only a 74 rated player with contact at 60 and power in the 50s. I just have to get better.
Edit: Just playing a bit and I finally put together a few multi hit games.Last edited by BenBobOmb; 05-07-2018, 03:20 PM.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
I made a post last week about the "All Star" versus "HoF" hitting difficulties in the Directional tread and someone replied saying there is a huge difference between "All Star" hitting and "HoF" hitting in MLB 18 that did not exist in last years game. At the time I was finding "All Star" too easy and "HoF" rather hard to generate comparable offense with my AAA player. Instead of using "HoF" in AAA have since reverted back to "All Star" and just tweaked my sliders to make it "All Star" a little harder. But I will be in a similar boat you are in once my AAA player makes it to the Show.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Idk if this is the right spot to ask this question. I created an RTTS SP and I'm playing on legend with default sliders. I'm still in AA with a OVR of 57. However I can't see to walk guys I only have 8 walks over 60 innings. Im using meter pitching and my BB/9 is 39. What else do I have to do to have realistic walk numbers like 50 to 60 per seasonComment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Don't throw the ball in the strike zone. It's as simple as that. Aim outside of it. You will walk batters. But be careful what you ask for. Those base runners have a way finding their way to home plate, maybe not so much in AA but they can be ruthless in the MLB. I'll be curious to see how you handle the batters on Legend in the MLB. I know I tried it using the classic pitching interface. But I gave up when they the MLB batters light me up even when I was able to paint the corners.
BTW I purposely pitched around Matt Wieters for a walk in the top of the 7th inning of my Padres vs Nationals game this evening. It was a tight 2-2 game in the 7th and I already had 2 outs in the inning. But Max Scherzer was on deck and I wanted to get him out of the game and I figured the best way to do that was to pitch around Wieters and force the Nationals manager to pinch hit for Max. It worked. With Wieters on 1B, I got the next batter out and my Padres teammates went on to score 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th and the team won a rare hard fought 4-2 victory. LOL ... of course they went on to lose the next four games as I fast forwarded to my next start. Such is life playing on the last place Padres.Last edited by My993C2; 05-07-2018, 11:26 PM.Comment
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Spent hours yesterday trying to control some of the offseason moves heading into 2020 (simming 1 day at a time, reloading/saving for moves I liked) on my RF for the Braves
Resulted in some fun/interesting storylines across baseball that have developed over the past 2 offseasons.
- Nolan Arenado & Didi Gregorius join Bryce Harper in Baltimore
- Nats continue to lose bats (Harper, Rondon, Murphy, Eaton, Difo, but added Salv Perez in 2019), but try to keep compensating by adding Alex Wood, Sonny Gray, & Betances this offseason and Zach Britton the year prior. Max Sherzer is their LRP
- Yanks acquired 2B Cesar Hernandez and LF Mallex Smith (DH) and now have serious speed in front of serious power at the 1-2. Yonder Alonso aswell
- Xander Boegarts, Jose Abreu, and a couple others to ARI who have a nice balanced team
- Yasiel Puig signs with the Indians and fills the hole at RF finally and bats 5th for them. They also brought back Carlos Santana in a trade
- Blue Jays score big with Gerrit Cole & Jonathan Schoop
- Sterling Marte joins BOS and platoons w/ Jackie Bradley Jr
As for my Braves, our biggest acquisitions were SP Carlos Martinez (through trade) and SP Robert Gsellman. We still have many assets to trade aswell.
Because of the hot bat progressions throughout the year (2019 MVP Manny Machado who hit 61 homeruns while batting .334!), the offseason progressions, and morale (A rated position staff, B rated pitching staff) we are looking stacked to start 2020 after getting booted out of the NLDS by the Cubs the season prior. Note that I also spent 60 days on the DL. Quite a bit of additions were done through save/load method at the trade deadlines.
1st in Def, 5th in pitching, 11th in power, 3rd in contact, 4th in speed
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Yeah, I’ve seen this way too often. Out of our 5 main guys, Gerrit Cole seems to be the one that plays true to his real life counterpart; his ERA’s been in the 2’s and 3’s in the three years we’ve had him. Taillon and Kuhl are absolutely awful. Dumb thought, but I wonder if adjusting the sliders would help.
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Re: Official MLB 18 : Road to the Show Thread
Pittsburgh are champs once again.
After blowing out the Mets in the NLDS, we moved on to the Dodgers, who took us out last year in the NLCS. We dismantled them 3-1, and it was onto Toronto, who had somehow gotten Anthony Rizzo, Chris Taylor, and a bunch of other really good depth players.
We drop the first two games and go into Toronto 0-2. We won 3 straight and took the series back to Pittsburgh, and Game 6 was one for the ages.
My SS has maxed out his ratings across the board. I was hitting .307, a few dingers and a dozen RBIs. In Game 6, he goes 1-4 with two strikeouts, a weak single counting as his hit.
Bottom of the ninth comes and we’re against their godly closer, some generated prospect. We’re down by two, runners on first and second. I just want to hit a gapper; both runners have good speed (Marte and Moroff) and can probably tie it up. There’s an out to work with, I work the count to 2-1.
The closer hangs a curveball and my guy absolutely hammers it. And it’s a no doubter. I could’ve cried, and I’m not even a Pirates fan.
I have to say, though...the commentary throughout the WS was pretty lackluster and underwhelming. Matty V and Co. do a pretty good job all around but their postseason commentary needs work.
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