I played one of the sickest games last night so I decided to create an account to give mad props to TNK for these sliders. I've owned the Show before but never played franchise mode. I was getting frustrated on the default settings and found your sliders.
I've played 18 games with these sliders and I did have to make an adjustment to CPU pitching because I suck at hitting. I use timing hitting and I bumped down the Consistency and Strike frequency one each. I found that this definitely helped me to get into more hitters counts and draw a few more walks (I have a pretty bad eye and swing at a lot of balls). I did compensate with bumping the pitching to HOF so it seems to have balanced out. 9 games into a franchise with the Rockies and I'm at .261avg/4.5rpg and a 4.25 era.
Anyways, back to why I actually wanted to post in the first place. So it was game 9 of my franchise and I was looking to avoid the sweep against the Dbacks. Nicasio was pitching great and going into the top of the 6th I had 4-0 lead thanks to 3 D.Fowler rbi's. The dbacks promptly get 2 guys on and then J.Upton crushes one to deep left. The next inning R.Roberts crushes a solo shot and the game is tied 4-4 into the bottom of the 7th. Arizona brings in a side arm pitcher and he is killing me, 4k's in 2innings. Scoreless innings the next two and we are into the bottom of the ninth with the sidearm guy still in there. Cuddyer leads off and gets a blooper that drops in between the first baseman and right fielder, the ball kind of bounces away from the outfielder and it turns into a double. Next up, T.Helton and his massive .150 avg. He quickly gets ahead 2-0 and is looking for a pitch to hit witch the pitcher obliges throwing a fastball into his wheelhouse which he crushes for a 2-run shot and the game winner! Probably the most fun I've had playing a sports game in while.
Sorry for the long post but I thought this was a pretty awesome game and the sliders definitely make this game way more realistic. I've seen some people question extra base hits with solid hits down to 3. I think that setting is perfect. I have 81 hits thru 9 games with 16-2B, 4-3B, 8-HR which is almost exactly the league average in proportions.
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