MLB The Show 24 Patch #3 Available Today - Patch Notes

[xNeurosiis]

Re: MLB The Show 24 Patch #3 Available Today - Patch Notes

I haven't played much so far this year (waiting for Friday's rosters to start Franchise, and recently started playing Baldur's Gate 3, which I'm relatively obsessed with), but the CPU throwing strikes thing stood out to me.

In previous years, the CPU threw in the zone too much. Last year it was something like 52% of pitches were in the zone on All-Star (Humans are generally even higher, when I decided to track some online games it was typically well north of 60%). Irl in 2023, 42% of pitches were in the zone. Like a lot of things, SDS isn't wrong, it's outdated, as that 50% number is where things stood 15-20 years ago.

Before this patch, the CPU was throwing in the zone less. Around 45%. That was encouraging. I just played a game today where the Padres' Joe Musgrove (44.8% Zone % for his career), Matt Waldron (45.3%), and Jhony Brito (42.4%) combined to throw 75% of their pitches in the zone. It's just 1 game, but feels like a huuuuge overcorrection to me.

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Would changing the slider for CPU strike frequency or CPU pitcher control help this, maybe?

[countryboy]

Re: MLB The Show 24 Patch #3 Available Today - Patch Notes

I haven't played much so far this year (waiting for Friday's rosters to start Franchise, and recently started playing Baldur's Gate 3, which I'm relatively obsessed with), but the CPU throwing strikes thing stood out to me.

In previous years, the CPU threw in the zone too much. Last year it was something like 52% of pitches were in the zone on All-Star (Humans are generally even higher, when I decided to track some online games it was typically well north of 60%). Irl in 2023, 42% of pitches were in the zone. Like a lot of things, SDS isn't wrong, it's outdated, as that 50% number is where things stood 15-20 years ago.

Before this patch, the CPU was throwing in the zone less. Around 45%. That was encouraging. I just played a game today where the Padres' Joe Musgrove (44.8% Zone % for his career), Matt Waldron (45.3%), and Jhony Brito (42.4%) combined to throw 75% of their pitches in the zone. It's just 1 game, but feels like a huuuuge overcorrection to me.

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I just finished a game against the Astros (Legend hitting) where I drew a combined 5 walks. I don't know where the percentage of strikes were, but the CPU does a good job of throwing pitches out of the zone, especially if I'm chasing pitches.

I haven't noticed a difference in CPU throwing pitches out of the zone versus in the zone pre and post patch. My experience has been that it hasn't changed.

[DudeManE]

Re: MLB The Show 24 Patch #3 Available Today - Patch Notes

I track in-the-zone pitches myself. I agree on that 52%. I was getting that and higher towards the end in 23. My bb% was going down and I didn’t like it.

My bb% is even lower in 24. A little over 6% and I’m striking out LOOKING a lot trying get that up.

Seems like the cpu hits the black and gets the call a lot more in 24

I didn’t have that big a sample before the patch but I don’t think there was any change.

I too was thinking of moving cpu strike frequency down to 4 to see if that will get it down below 50% which what I’d like.

Trying finish my 50 game sample before changing my settings. I basically started with my 23 sliders and haven’t changed anything yet. Another four games to go.


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