HOF "the right way"

[Heroesandvillains]

Re: HOF "the right way"

I think this thread has made me lose all hope that I'll ever find a suitable setting to play this game at.

To clarify, that's not a shot at you Authentic. I am grateful for anyone that is on here posting their settings, stats and trying to help others.....I think that is great.
Just the irony that the thread, which was started to extol the virtues of playing on "Default", has turned into a thread of slider tinkering and discussion.

I, like it seems many people on here, am constantly tinkering, testing and trying to find something that works for me.....and at a certain point it seems not worth it anymore.

Rym,

Read Triplethreat's post. The one above mine.

Play your 20 games. Review your stats. Make your tweaks...or post your stats here and we'll help you with said tweaks...and never look back. There's no need to.

Out of the box, this game provides numbers relatively within MLB average range. We all use different teams, camera angles, and have different abilities. Triplethreat's tweaks won't necessarily suit Authentic, and Authentic's tweaks won't necessarily suit me.

This thread has turned into sort of a, "Okay, let's start on default HOF, and make adjustments from there." That's awesome.

I already have a franchise going with NYY, but figured since I was going to try out meter with a new team, that I'd put everything closer to 5 for the heck of it.

I dropped consistency and frequency a click from the get-go. I also bumped errors, stolen bases, and dropped pitch speed. It's incredible. But, baseball is a game of long term averages, and I may need to tinker more. That's what the sliders are there for.

You may not need to touch anything. Tonight, I could easily hit another 7 doubles over my two games and decide to leave run speed alone. Who knows? We'll help you. But play, for now. And post some stats when you have a decent sample size.

[authentic]

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Fielder run speed and reaction lowered is really what MLB is. Cheap hits are part of the game and it's how it is.

[TripleThreat1973]

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It's true that there are some cheap hits in MLB.

But much more common are hard ground balls that highly skilled fielders turn into routine plays.

There's a good reason why MLB SS start off on the edge of the OF grass. Routine 3-hoppers are hit hard enough that they can come in field the ball and still throw the runner out by a step or two.

With fielder reactio too low (lower than default IMO), too often you get that canned animation where the fielder can't get their glove down on a weakish 4-hopper.

There just aren't that many Edwin Encarnacions in MLB. ML fielders are sometimes their own worst enemy in that they make hard hit grounders easy plays. A 200-pound guy swinging hard at a solid object moving at 93 mph results in a high velocity projectile.

It's literally the equivalent of a HS coach hitting fungoes as hard as he possibly can. A professional level SS or 3B is about as impressive of a thing as I have ever seen on a baseball field. Seeing 95 mph from the batter's box would be the most impressive.

[BleacherCreature]

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Well put triplethreat.

[TripleThreat1973]

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Just a note for the "slider experiments" .... wind is MAJOR influence, perhaps even as much as pitcher confidence.

5 games with wind blowing out = 21 combined homers.
5 games with wind blowing in = 6 combined homers.

Wind setting at 4.

I'm considering lowering it to two. Wind, at speeds less than say 20mph, just isn't THAT influential

[wrigleyville33]

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I'm playing on default HOF for both pitching and hitting. I haven't even thought of adjusting sliders. I'll give some of these changes a try.

[authentic]

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Just a note for the "slider experiments" .... wind is MAJOR influence, perhaps even as much as pitcher confidence.

5 games with wind blowing out = 21 combined homers.
5 games with wind blowing in = 6 combined homers.

Wind setting at 4.

I'm considering lowering it to two. Wind, at speeds less than say 20mph, just isn't THAT influential

I think those are great stats. Being a Cubs fans I can agree with those numbers. When the wind is blowing out at Wrigley, almost no balls make it out of the park.

[authentic]

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I am testing a couple new theories of mine out. Personally, this game plays different at every level. All-Star, HoF, and Legend. There's really very little difficulty change just certain little things. Legend is out of the picture for sure, AS and HoF seem like they play the same besides little things. I want to make as little tweaks as possible so we'll see.

[TripleThreat1973]

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I think those are great stats. Being a Cubs fans I can agree with those numbers. When the wind is blowing out at Wrigley, almost no balls make it out of the park.

I think you mean when the wind is blowing in no balls make it out.

I agree that wind can play a major role ... but it needs to be wind that's around 20mph, not 9 mph.

Wrigley field is also not likely the typical wind influenced ballpark. It's probably the extreme, especially in regards to "blowing out months" and "blowing in months".

[authentic]

Re: HOF "the right way"

I think you mean when the wind is blowing in no balls make it out.

I agree that wind can play a major role ... but it needs to be wind that's around 20mph, not 9 mph.

Wrigley field is also not likely the typical wind influenced ballpark. It's probably the extreme, especially in regards to "blowing out months" and "blowing in months".

I think maybe it could be possible to adjust the wind according to the stadium and amount of wind. I have thought about this too. Maybe at Wrigley if the wind is blowing out hard, turn up the wind influence, compared to at a 9 mph wind at a field that is less wind influenced, such as the Brewers field or fields that wind isn't a factor and usually don't have wind. Think that would work?

[Heroesandvillains]

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I'm playing on default HOF for both pitching and hitting. I haven't even thought of adjusting sliders. I'll give some of these changes a try.

Care to post your stats before making those changes?

You may not need to adjust anything.

[authentic]

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Care to post your stats before making those changes?

You may not need to adjust anything.

I would also like to see how close yours are to what mine are. Basing yours off mine could help you adjust if you even need to.

[Heroesandvillains]

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I would also like to see how close yours are to what mine are. Basing yours off mine could help you adjust if you even need to.

Exactly.

You two may share the same or similar BA, but see drastically different HR allowed numbers...for example.

I'd love to see his stats.

[authentic]

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heroesandvillians...have you messed around with AS at all? I just did a test game with some very small sliders changes, very small and the Reds hit 3 bombs off me in the first 2 innings. That NEVER happened on HoF in my Franchise or whenever I played. AS seems harder...I am really having to work for my strikeouts, but the game seems really balanced. Very odd.

[Bobhead]

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I wouldn't call AS harder, just more annoying and unpredictable. HoF plays more like real baseball, whereas AS has me going "what?" I see things like missed swings with the PCI in the right place, or home runs when the pitch was on the other side of the zone... (and be clear, I mean on both sides; I've hit many a home run on All Star, on a pitch an inch off the zone. )

Maybe it's just me, but while HoF is a little more challenging, I find myself pissed off at the game a lot less.