Umpire Personalities Thread

[decga]

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Has anyone else had random umpire names appear? I have Darryl Parker, Matthew Ross, and Dave Lawrence with Ricky Holliday.... Is there a fix or reason these names changed?

I have noticed this too. I had a book on the other umpire tendencies. This new guys not so much. SCEA did state that there would 14 new umps. So I guess they just added them. I just pitching my game and seeing what road it takes me.

[KyleY12]

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Maybe this was already answered, but maybe not, but nonetheless I need help.

How do I know which umpire is behind the plate? The announcers never tell me until the 8th inning or so, when it's too late.

[Blzer]

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Maybe this was already answered, but maybe not, but nonetheless I need help.

How do I know which umpire is behind the plate? The announcers never tell me until the 8th inning or so, when it's too late.

I think the Game Log shows the umpiring crew.

[cusefan74]

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Maybe this was already answered, but maybe not, but nonetheless I need help.

How do I know which umpire is behind the plate? The announcers never tell me until the 8th inning or so, when it's too late.

They also show them in the 1st inning if you just watch the cut scenes and not go through them to fast.

[Spring Rubber]

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I was under the impression that said cut scene isn't in this year's game.

[spitoon]

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Okay, that was easier than I thought, here is an in-game screen shot of how it would work. Again, the red is the umps strike zone, you never "see" it, but it is running I guess invisibly and as you pitch you would start to notice that he was calling pitches inside (not over the plate) strikes and pitches on the outside (over the plate) balls. The strike zones for each up could be different. Giving high strikes vs low, outside vs inside etc. and the degree could be as minescule as an inch or as great as a foot, it is all on the umps. It would make variable umps actually variable.

Didn't High Heat have this exact feature? I'm sure there was a game in the past where you could call up the MLB strikezone and the "in game" strike zone...it looked a lot like that picture.

I love the idea, but I think the implementation is lacking a bit. To be honest, I haven't paid enough attention to who the umps are from game to game to really say either way, but I do notice that the "inconsistency is inconsistent". I want the umps to be inconsistent to a degree, but that inconsistency should be somewhat predictable within a game and from an "Umpire personality" standpoint.

I'll try to pay more attention going forward and see if I can verify these trends.

[nomo17k]

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Yeah, what would be good is to have more consistently inconsistent umpires... that's what we call tendency. There are inconsistency, but still seems a bit too random to me.

[stealyerface]

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The other thing they need to do, which would be VERY easy, would be to mix up the umpiring crew for a series when you play the same team for a three or four game set.

I should not have the same plate ump for all three games in Boston against the Rangers. The fact that the umpire have the different zones is cool, and the fact that there are 14 of them is even more cool.

The fact that each stadium gets the same guy at the plate for every game... That is less cool.

~syf

[decga]

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@SYF. In the Show 12 they changed home plate umps every game on my disc. If I am not mistaken the homeplate umps has been chaning. If the guys visibily looks the same. Visit the game log during the paused screen.

[stealyerface]

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I will check that. It seemed to me that when you played at Fenway, you got XXXX at the plate. When you played at Wrigley it was YYYY... but that who was always at that field as the plate umpire.

Will fire up 5 exhibition games at Fenway and see if they do indeed change from game to game.

~syf

[statdude]

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I will check that. It seemed to me that when you played at Fenway, you got XXXX at the plate. When you played at Wrigley it was YYYY... but that who was always at that field as the plate umpire.

Will fire up 5 exhibition games at Fenway and see if they do indeed change from game to game.

~syf

Exhibition games have the same umpires for each game at each stadium. In Franchise, they switch up

[stealyerface]

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Thank you for the clarification on that...

Good to know.

~syf

[decga]

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What happened to the regular cast of Umps? Wally Hughes, Mike Marquez. I'm seeing different guys or the same crew every series. Now this is after I had to restart my franchise after buying a new PS3 last month.

[Blzer]

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Maybe they appeared in a patch.

[decga]

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Maybe they appeared in a patch.

Thats what I thought, but I havent seen the old ump crew. Its all good!