Question for manage mode users

[tessl]

Re: Question for manage mode users

Bunts work fine and do as intended. Very realistic. Now I over bunted just to test, but I had no problems bunting. Got some good ones down, had a few foul off, had a few pop up, and got some fielded good for outs. All legit in my opinion.

Playing all default if I havent mentioned.

That's good news. The menu people are complaining about - can you still set the game on fast play to eliminate cut scenes and adjust countdown clock to make the thing go away like last year when we had a side bar for batter and one for pitcher prior to each pitch?

Is it the same thing but with a new menu?

[forme95]

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That's good news. The menu people are complaining about - can you still set the game on fast play to eliminate cut scenes and adjust countdown clock to make the thing go away like last year when we had a side bar for batter and one for pitcher prior to each pitch?



Is it the same thing but with a new menu?

I have no issue with the menu. I look at it, (I have mine set to 4sec). I don't do fast play. I hate rushing through games. I enjoy every aspect of the game when I play. I view the menu as if I was the manager looking at my cheat card. So I can't answer that.

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[JHodges57]

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Bunts work fine and do as intended. Very realistic. Now I over bunted just to test, but I had no problems bunting. Got some good ones down, had a few foul off, had a few pop up, and got some fielded good for outs. All legit in my opinion.

Playing all default if I havent mentioned.

Yes, something has been changed I reckon. I just saw a player rated 65 drag with only a 67 speed put down a successful drag.

I did send them an email about the issue a couple days ago. Maybe someone listened.

[JHodges57]

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It does appear that bunts are working now.

[forme95]

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It does appear that bunts are working now.

I actually spent a whole lineup just bunting at different times (testing) to see. Im not sure if something got 'fixed' or what, but ya, it seems fine to me and works as intended. Total dice roll.

[JHodges57]

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I actually spent a whole lineup just bunting at different times (testing) to see. Im not sure if something got 'fixed' or what, but ya, it seems fine to me and works as intended. Total dice roll.

Don't know about your end, but on this side the bunts still all go down the 1b line. But as long as they are successful once in a while I can live with that.

[forme95]

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Don't know about your end, but on this side the bunts still all go down the 1b line. But as long as they are successful once in a while I can live with that.

A lot of mine went down third. A few along first and some between 3rd and the mound.


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[JHodges57]

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A lot of mine went down third. A few along first and some between 3rd and the mound.


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Are you doing the bunting or are the AI players? I do the manage only thing. When I do the bunting, I can get them down fine.

[forme95]

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Are you doing the bunting or are the AI players? I do the manage only thing. When I do the bunting, I can get them down fine.

It's Manage mode. I don't control the players. I just call for bunts

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[JHodges57]

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It's Manage mode. I don't control the players. I just call for bunts

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Ok good. I'm hoping to see bunt variety then.

[shawn306]

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The one thing that drives me mad about bunting is, late in a close game and you get an Aaron Judge or a Chris Davis doing a suicide squeeze. Why do these guys even have a bunt rating ? I'm thinking about dropping all guys who did not have a bunt in 2018 down to 0.

[highandoutside]

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Hi all, thanks for all your responses earlier. I have just a few more questions before I think about giving the game a spin (I'm a huge baseball sim hobbyist who has usually played text-based games and am interested in realism).


1. When you play out a season, does the game track fatigue? Is there a realistic injury system?


2. Do you typically play out one season or franchise? In either, how to you stop the AI from making terrible GM decisions? -- which is a problem in every sim.



3. Does the AI use its bullpen effectively? Or do you see wonky managerial decisions?



4. Lastly, do better rated fielders make a noticeable difference over the course of a season? Or, does it appear that the game engine is mostly just factoring in pitcher-hitter ratings?



Thanks a bunch, in advance.

[tessl]

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The one thing that drives me mad about bunting is, late in a close game and you get an Aaron Judge or a Chris Davis doing a suicide squeeze. Why do these guys even have a bunt rating ? I'm thinking about dropping all guys who did not have a bunt in 2018 down to 0.

If you are talking about the CPU doing a squeeze in certain situations the way to defeat that is several pickoff moves to 3b. At least it has worked for me.

[JHodges57]

Re: Question for manage mode users

Hi all, thanks for all your responses earlier. I have just a few more questions before I think about giving the game a spin (I'm a huge baseball sim hobbyist who has usually played text-based games and am interested in realism).


1. When you play out a season, does the game track fatigue? Is there a realistic injury system?


2. Do you typically play out one season or franchise? In either, how to you stop the AI from making terrible GM decisions? -- which is a problem in every sim.



3. Does the AI use its bullpen effectively? Or do you see wonky managerial decisions?



4. Lastly, do better rated fielders make a noticeable difference over the course of a season? Or, does it appear that the game engine is mostly just factoring in pitcher-hitter ratings?



Thanks a bunch, in advance.

1: Fatigue is tracked from game to game. There are injuries, but I don't know what you mean by realistic system. Also, there is a progression/regression system so a player's ratings can fall of or they can improve as the season goes on.

2: I play out 1 season since that's all I have time for during a yearly cycle. I don't sim any games. You are able to import your season from a previous version to the new version though. I don't do that, but it's a good thing to have.

3: I don't know what you mean by effectively but I see the same 2 or 3 opponent relievers during a series, even if one or more of them has little energy. They do tend to pitch realistic number of innings in a game though. You don't have short relievers going 2 or more innings, unless they run out of pitchers in extra innings.

4: This has been an issue of mine. I don't see any difference in fielders. JD Martinez gets to same kind of difficult fielding opportunities, covers the same ground, that Mookie Betts does. Martinez has awful fielding ratings while Betts has some of the best. I don't think the fielding changes made in the game play this year are used in Manage mode. This is my perception so I can't say I'm 100% correct. Maybe someone else sees something different.

[forme95]

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If you are talking about the CPU doing a squeeze in certain situations the way to defeat that is several pickoff moves to 3b. At least it has worked for me.

The one thing that drives me mad about bunting is, late in a close game and you get an Aaron Judge or a Chris Davis doing a suicide squeeze. Why do these guys even have a bunt rating ? I'm thinking about dropping all guys who did not have a bunt in 2018 down to 0.

If its a close game and not much scoring, I will do it and may try it with someone who might not normally bunt. To say Judge will NEVER drop a bunt down, cant be said. Ive seen "power" hitters do it, not at a high rate through out the year, but in certain situations I could see it being called.
Even if you put bunts to zero, they will still try and bunt if the situation calls for it. The programming is set to score runs and win. It will just make a very low success rate. Is it the cpu's fault that it fools you or yours? I've been fooled by it, or not thinking and had it happen. Its part of the fun of manage mode. And in the end, it is a video game. It will never be 100% true to life. Just some intangibles that a video game will never be able to produce.


How I combat that is, throw low and away or off the plate (pitch around option or pitch out) so they cant get the bunt off and if its a suicide the run will be tagged out.