Manage mode players

[Madden08PCgmr]

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It's a shame when people have to start off with...I know it won't happen, but some developers don't care all that much about what players want unless it has something to do with them making more $.

CHARGE ME!! Online content me to death!

I'll pay to get what I want. Just give me the option, please!!

[forme95]

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I just dont understand. Baseball, the most stat based sport........

I'll just leave it at that.


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[forme95]

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How, how, how...... How do you fix your batters from chasing ball 4 and stop your pitchers giving up so many walks......... my biggest battle. That and the All Star right down the middle throws. At least that happens more evenly between the cpu and hum. I cant tell my batters to take pitch on a full count..... Im just lost here. My pitchers are top 10 for giving up BB and my hitters are bottom 15 for BB's......

[JHodges57]

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How, how, how...... How do you fix your batters from chasing ball 4 and stop your pitchers giving up so many walks......... my biggest battle. That and the All Star right down the middle throws. At least that happens more evenly between the cpu and hum. I cant tell my batters to take pitch on a full count..... Im just lost here. My pitchers are top 10 for giving up BB and my hitters are bottom 15 for BB's......

If you're talking MoM, there is a batter option to take pitch.

[forme95]

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If you're talking MoM, there is a batter option to take pitch.

Why would I tell my batter to take a pitch on a full count ?
Lol, no manager would tell a batter to take a full count pitch.
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[JHodges57]

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Why would I tell my batter to take a pitch on a full count ?
Lol, no manager would tell a batter to take a full count pitch.
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I guess I'm one of a kind then. I get tired of my batters swinging at balls WAY out of the strike zone so sometimes I just tell them to take. It actually results in more walks than you would image. Especially a pitcher that you don't want to have swinging into a double play. I think my pitchers lead the league in batting walks.

[forme95]

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I guess I'm one of a kind then. I get tired of my batters swinging at balls WAY out of the strike zone so sometimes I just tell them to take. It actually results in more walks than you would image. Especially a pitcher that you don't want to have swinging into a double play. I think my pitchers lead the league in batting walks.

I guess I'll have to try it here and there. Watch for the trend. I can already pretty much predict how the program is going to handle the game. Its really fu$%in g stupid I have to tell players like Lindor, Ramirez, and Santana (who had 98 bb and 78 SO in 19' game) to take a full count pitch. It wouldn't bother me if it happened here and there, or by a good K pitcher. It doesn't matter the pitcher though. Ace, scrub doesn't matter. If SDS just put a little thought into the game (the only sport based SOLELY off stats) it would make the global game so much better. Even for DD (the only part they care about) playing. I'm about to start buying DD players things, just so sds actually listens to other groups of players.

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[JHodges57]

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I guess I'll have to try it here and there. Watch for the trend. I can already pretty much predict how the program is going to handle the game. Its really fu$%in g stupid I have to tell players like Lindor, Ramirez, and Santana (who had 98 bb and 78 SO in 19' game) to take a full count pitch. It wouldn't bother me if it happened here and there, or by a good K pitcher. It doesn't matter the pitcher though. Ace, scrub doesn't matter. If SDS just put a little thought into the game (the only sport based SOLELY off stats) it would make the global game so much better. Even for DD (the only part they care about) playing. I'm about to start buying DD players things, just so sds actually listens to other groups of players.

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Well, the way I see it if they're going to strikeout anyway swinging at something no one in their right mind should be swinging at, I'll tell them not to swing with a hope they may actually get on base. If they get called out, well they would probably strikeout anyway so I didn't lose anything. Carlos Correa has been especially bad at it.

What annoys me to no end, they will take a called third strike watching a pitch right down the heart of the strike zone but swing at stuff that bounces on the plate, is over in the opposite batter's box while falling across the plate to reach it or one that's even over their head. It REALLY annoys me when they have men in scoring position with 2 outs and after swinging at everything that's all over the place they'll not swing at a pitch deep in the strike zone.

It also gets annoying with some pitcher with an overall rating in the 50's and a strikeout rating in the 30's striking out half the batters he faces. I agree that there seems to be no difference between pitchers when it comes to strikeouts.

[forme95]

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Well, the way I see it if they're going to strikeout anyway swinging at something no one in their right mind should be swinging at, I'll tell them not to swing with a hope they may actually get on base. If they get called out, well they would probably strikeout anyway so I didn't lose anything. Carlos Correa has been especially bad at it.

What annoys me to no end, they will take a called third strike watching a pitch right down the heart of the strike zone but swing at stuff that bounces on the plate, is over in the opposite batter's box while falling across the plate to reach it or one that's even over their head. It REALLY annoys me when they have men in scoring position with 2 outs and after swinging at everything that's all over the place they'll not swing at a pitch deep in the strike zone.

It also gets annoying with some pitcher with an overall rating in the 50's and a strikeout rating in the 30's striking out half the batters he faces. I agree that there seems to be no difference between pitchers when it comes to strikeouts.

I understand guys will chase, and Im fine with that. Its like attributes dont even matter unless its a simmed game. Which totally takes away from managing and even from a GM standpoint, most gm's watch games. A guy with 78 vision and 98 discipline is not going to swing a obvious balls or ball 4 for that matter. Through 40 games, said player has 8 BB and 23 (or 28) SO's. Ill bet if I simmed those exact same games, he would have close to even, or more BB then SO's

Well rant over. It isnt going to change, and unless it has something to do with Diamond Dynasty no one will listen. Off to play and make the best of it.

[forme95]

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I wish we could move the OSD. The one on the bottom left, should be top left or top right. You can't see pitching lines, or anything that pops up bc the score display is in the way.



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[My993C2]

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Being an unemployed bum thanks to the COVID-19 panic virus helped, but I actually completed my MoM season a couple of days ago where I played at least 150 of the 162 games. I was playing with the Nationals rebranded as the Expos and won the NL East division with a 101-61 record. But I am in deep trouble in the first round the NLDS having lost my first two games of the series to the D-Backs.

It was an interesting year. The Nationals (or should I say rebranded Expos) had a decent April, but really kicked butt in May, June and July (easily took control of the division in these three months). Then the team kind of just coasted the rest of the way maintaining a slightly better than .500 record in August until the end of the regular season in September. Along the way Juan Soto was a monster for the first five months of the season. He looked like a shoe in to win not only the batting title, the RBI title and was even not that far off the HR lead. But then in September Soto went from one of the leagues best hitters to one of the worst. He absolutely tanked in the last month where his batting average fell from .340 down to .312 finishing well off the pace for the batting title and because I sat him whenever he got cold (which was most of September) this also meant that he also lost top spot in RBIs and finish 10 or 12 HRs off that crown as well. Don't know what happened since these are MoM games, I only control when they play not how they play, but Juan Soto went from a clear MVP candidate to being one of the worst players in the entire league. On a pitching front, Max Scherzer was awesome for most of the year winning the Cy Young award along the way while Stratsburg wasn't as dominant, but he still had a good year and Patrick Corbin my #3 starter was dependable all year long. But oh how fast things changed in my two playoff games. Scherzer wasn't bad in the opener. In fact he looked his usual dominate self for 5 innings. But the wheels fell off in the 6th inning when he walked the first two batters and then give up a 3 run HR to the third batter and that was it. Game over, the team never recovered dropping the opener. The second game was even worse. All year long I have come to get used to how Strasburg pitches. Not sure if this is what he does in the real world, but in this game Starsbugh refuses to throw strikes. Almost every pitch is out of the strike zone. But most of those pitches are close which cause the batters to swing. All season long it was not uncommon for Strasburg to surrender only a handleful of hits while he usually walked about twice as many hits as he surrendered, but he also strike out a lot of batters. But in game number two of the NLDS, Strasburg was horrible. He surrendered six runs in 3 1/3 innings before I pulled the plug on his game and ended up losing game #2 10-3. Corbin is next up in game number three and my season will end if he pitches like Scherzer and Strasburg did. But only time will tell.

Anyway enough of my playoff problems (haha), here are the playoff match ups and I have no complaints at how it has all transpired as the top four teams from each league did make the playoffs.

Boston beat Tampa in the AL Wild Card game but now trail the Yankees 2-0 in their ALDS. Arizona beat Cincinnati in the NL Wild Card game and as stated have a 2-0 lead over the Expos (team I control) in the NLDS. The Cubs and Dodgers are tied 1-1 in the other NLDS while the Astros hold a 1-0 lead over the Twins in the second NLDS (and I am about to play game two of this series now as a CPU vs CPU game).

Oh one other thing before I forget. Granted it was a MoM game so I don't know if it counts, but I finally got my first no-hitter (with Strasburg) playing the MLB The Show series every year since 2013. I had come close a few times in previous years, but it finally happened this year. But as I said, it was a MoM game, so does that count? LOL I have not come close to a no-no with my RTTS pitchers and I don't play games that are not MoM or RTTS games.

[My993C2]

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I have been eliminated from MoM game play for the rest of this year. My starter in game #3, Patrick Corbin laid an egg giving up 5 runs on 5 hits, 5 walks (not a type-o he walked 5), plus 1 hit batter and 2 wild pitches in 3 1/3 innings in a lop sided 9-0 playoff elimination loss. But as crappy as my pitching was in this short series, it wasn't just them. My hitters also decided to take most of the series off. They scored 3 runs in the first inning of the 5-3 game #1 loss, then scored 3 more in the 8th inning of a 10-3 game #2 embarrassment but virtually no offense between all this, followed by this 9-0 shallacking. Nope the whole team failed to show up for this series. So I guess that's it for my MoM games for a while. I am done, put a fork in me. I will continue to watch the rest of the playoffs as CPU vs CPU games and presently this is how they stand:


D-Backs swept the Expos/Nationals in 3.
Dodgers lead the Cubs 2 games to 1.
Yankees lead the Red Sox 2-0.
Astros and Twins are tied at 1-1.


But once this virtual World Series has a champion what will I do? I guess I can revisit my RTTS players. I stopped playing their games around the All Star break to concentrate on completing my MoM season.

[JHodges57]

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I have been eliminated from MoM game play for the rest of this year. My starter in game #3, Patrick Corbin laid an egg giving up 5 runs on 5 hits, 5 walks (not a type-o he walked 5), plus 1 hit batter and 2 wild pitches in 3 1/3 innings in a lop sided 9-0 playoff elimination loss. But as crappy as my pitching was in this short series, it wasn't just them. My hitters also decided to take most of the series off. They scored 3 runs in the first inning of the 5-3 game #1 loss, then scored 3 more in the 8th inning of a 10-3 game #2 embarrassment but virtually no offense between all this, followed by this 9-0 shallacking. Nope the whole team failed to show up for this series. So I guess that's it for my MoM games for a while. I am done, put a fork in me. I will continue to watch the rest of the playoffs as CPU vs CPU games and presently this is how they stand:


D-Backs swept the Expos/Nationals in 3.
Dodgers lead the Cubs 2 games to 1.
Yankees lead the Red Sox 2-0.
Astros and Twins are tied at 1-1.


But once this virtual World Series has a champion what will I do? I guess I can revisit my RTTS players. I stopped playing their games around the All Star break to concentrate on completing my MoM season.

The playoffs are another beast. Ask the Dodgers.

[My993C2]

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The playoffs are another beast. Ask the Dodgers.

Well my MoM season came to an end last week, but the playoffs continue with the two World Series opponents having been finalized as of last night. Here is what has happened so far (keeping in mind all of the games that my now eliminated team did not play in were CPU vs CPU games):

In the National League
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The Diamondbacks defeated the Reds in the NL Wild Card game.
The Dodgers defeated the Cubs 3 games to 1 in one of the NLDS.
The Diamondbacks swept the Expos (Nationals) 3 games to 0 in the other NLDS.
The Dodgers swept the Diamondbacks 4 games to 0 in the NLCS.

In the American League
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The Red Sox defeated the Rays in the AL Wild Card game.
The Astros defeated the Twins 3 games to 2 in one of the ALDS.
The Yankees swept the Red Sox 3 games to 0 in the other ALDS.
The Astros defeated the Yankees 4 games to 2 in the ALCS.

So there you have it. The Astros will face off against the Dodgers in my virtual World Series. The NLCS was kind of boring where the Dodgers dominated the Diamondbacks all series long. But an interesting thing about the ALCS was that after game #2 the Yankees had a 2-0 series lead and looked good to go on and win the ALCS. But then they fell asleep losing all 3 middle games in Houston and in game #6 it started off looking promising that the Yankees would force a seventh game when after three innings they held a 5-0 lead. But in the top of the 4th inning the Astros exploded with not one grand slam, but two (count-em) grand slams in the same inning taking an 8-5 lead and never looking back on their way to a decisive 16-6 final score. The Yankees self destructed. They looked unbeatable, until the wheels fell off of their bus in games #3, #4, #5 and #6.


Edited to add: Dodgers defeated the Astros 4 games to 2 to win World Series in my 2020 MoM season.

[tessl]

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Well my MoM season came to an end last week, but the playoffs continue with the two World Series opponents having been finalized as of last night. Here is what has happened so far (keeping in mind all of the games that my now eliminated team did not play in were CPU vs CPU games):

In the National League
----------------------
The Diamondbacks defeated the Reds in the NL Wild Card game.
The Dodgers defeated the Cubs 3 games to 1 in one of the NLDS.
The Diamondbacks swept the Expos (Nationals) 3 games to 0 in the other NLDS.
The Dodgers swept the Diamondbacks 4 games to 0 in the NLCS.

In the American League
-----------------------
The Red Sox defeated the Rays in the AL Wild Card game.
The Astros defeated the Twins 3 games to 2 in one of the ALDS.
The Yankees swept the Red Sox 3 games to 0 in the other ALDS.
The Astros defeated the Yankees 4 games to 2 in the ALCS.

So there you have it. The Astros will face off against the Dodgers in my virtual World Series. The NLCS was kind of boring where the Dodgers dominated the Diamondbacks all series long. But an interesting thing about the ALCS was that after game #2 the Yankees had a 2-0 series lead and looked good to go on and win the ALCS. But then they fell asleep losing all 3 middle games in Houston and in game #6 it started off looking promising that the Yankees would force a seventh game when after three innings they held a 5-0 lead. But in the top of the 4th inning the Astros exploded with not one grand slam, but two (count-em) grand slams in the same inning taking an 8-5 lead and never looking back on their way to a decisive 16-6 final score. The Yankees self destructed. They looked unbeatable, until the wheels fell off of their bus in games #3, #4, #5 and #6.


Edited to add: Dodgers defeated the Astros 4 games to 2 to win World Series in my 2020 MoM season.

That's interesting because my franchise had the same world series matchup with the Dodgers winning.

I'm employing a new strategy in my rebranded/relocated carry over franchise. I lost too many games late when I had the lead in 2020. My theory is the cpu teams use the power swing more when trailing late in the game. To negate that I switched to Forbes Field which is very pitcher friendly.

I also adjusted my pitching staff to focus on vision. Between my manager, hitting coach and minor league coach I have +8 vision total. That's a significant boost.