What are your expectations for Generated Counts

[nemesis04]

Re: What are your expectations for Generated Counts

I didn't see this asked or answered anywhere. Will Quick Counts be on both the PS4 and the PS3 Versions? Or is it only a PS4 feature?

Both!.......

[HustlinOwl]

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Verducci agrees with a lot of you

• Start every batter with a 1-and-1 count. This is too radical for my tastes. You essentially would be changing strikeouts to two strikes and walks to three balls. This is a common tactic for amateur coaches in scrimmages to improve the pace of play to get more repetitions for hitters, pitchers and fielders -- and it does work toward creating a faster game. I just don't believe baseball requires something this drastic.

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[NDAlum]

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I 100% support Quick Counts and love it. As for it being polarizing? There's an option to turn it on/off so there shouldn't be any type of "bashing" on this feature. Those who don't want to use it should simply ignore the QC threads and move on.

[kehlis]

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To be fair though, for people like me who, when on offense, swing pretty much everything, this really won't speed up that part of the game too much, since a lot of my at-bats were ending after 1 or 2 pitches anyway.

But it will speed up the game when the CPU is batting.

[Fuos1988]

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I 100% support Quick Counts and love it. As for it being polarizing? There's an option to turn it on/off so there shouldn't be any type of "bashing" on this feature. Those who don't want to use it should simply ignore the QC threads and move on.

I imagine we will see the QC topic come up in other threads and my hope is it will be discussed passionately but without "bashing". Thankfully we haven't seen any bashing at all, only civil discussion

[HustlinOwl]

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Following my statement last year we can expect a lot of comeback or unfairness talk with this feature when released

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[KingV2k3]

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Well, the "implementation" is always going to be subject to debate, but you can always "toggle on / toggle off" to your liking...

The more I think about it though, the more I'd like to see the rare 0-0 and some 0-1 / 1-0 counts added to the mix for varieties sake...

Tied into individual batter's plate discipline, etc...

Oh well, fine by me for now...at least in theory...

[Fuos1988]

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The more I think about it though, the more I'd like to see the rare 0-0 and some 0-1 / 1-0 counts added to the mix for varieties sake...

Somewhere in this thread it was confirmed 0-1 and 1-0 pitches are in the mix.

[nemesis04]

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Somewhere in this thread it was confirmed 0-1 and 1-0 pitches are in the mix.

The only count you are not seeing is 0-0.

[RGmoney]

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The only count you are not seeing is 0-0.

Yes. As confirmed by Russell in answering another question:

Negative you will never see a 0-0 count. There will always be at least one ball and one strike for every quick count.

[KBLover]

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I swear, I have NO idea how anyone gets a game finished in under an hour before this feature's existence...

Do you guys enable that "Fast Play" option and / or skip the cut scenes?

I don't use Fast Play, but I probably skip (or shorten, i.e. let it start to see if there's some commentary and/or an overlay going to start, listen to commentary/read overlay, then hit X) more cutscenes than most who don't just outright skip/Fast Play.

As for sizing up the pitcher - I usually hit select, check his ratings and pitches. Maybe step out once in a while (don't know if that does anything besides buy some time) - otherwise, I probably would need to turn down the pacing the CPU uses when pitching. Sometimes it's almost like quick pitches! Some guys work VERY fast.

[Russell_SCEA]

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Somewhere in this thread it was confirmed 0-1 and 1-0 pitches are in the mix.

You won't see those counts either, you will only see mid or late counts.

[JoeCoolMan24]

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You won't see those counts either, you will only see mid or late counts.

Earlier you had said every count will start with at least 1 ball or 1 strike. But to be more specific, every count will start with at least 2 pitches thrown, yes?

[KingV2k3]

Re: What are your expectations for Generated Counts

Somewhere in this thread it was confirmed 0-1 and 1-0 pitches are in the mix.

You won't see those counts either, you will only see mid or late counts.

Thanks for the confirmation Russell!

So, I gotta ask:

Why did you guys decide against those types of counts AND is there a possibility that the feature may be retooled to include them in the future?

I'd love to see an option to choose "Normal" (no GC) "Quick" (includes early counts) and "Fast" (mid or late counts only) in the long run...for example...

[HustlinOwl]

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Thanks for the confirmation Russell!

So, I gotta ask:

Why did you guys decide against those types of counts AND is there a possibility that the feature may be retooled to include them in the future?

I'd love to see an option to choose "Normal" (no GC) "Quick" (includes early counts) and "Fast" (mid or late counts only) in the long run...for example...

Answered earlier in thread

You answered your own question, but I'll elaborate a little further. The original design for Quick Counts was beholden to three pillars.

1. Cut the game times in half
2. Fun factor, regardless of what we did it had to be fun
3. Simulation stats, regardless of what we did the box score needed to look like the average MLB game.

So everything and anything that didn't fit into those three pillars was removed from the feature. The original prototype was just that a completely random pitch count. However that didn't cut down on the game times at all so it had to go. The feature continued to evolve from there until we had something that was fun, fast, and still resembled a normal game in terms of statistics.