True Game MLB Sliders

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One thing I noticed over the years is that confidence plays a key role in hits and the type. Once pitcher loses it, it's good night Irene, as they used to say in wrestling. I often forget to visit the mound to help raise this. It also goes the same way, when a pitcher gets his confidence up they are lights out and it is tough to get hits, but you just have to keep chipping away.

10 HR wow...no mercy by the Yanks. I am sure that would be major league record, but no! It only ties the record set by the Toronto Blue Jays on 9-14-87 vs the Orioles for AL; the NL records is held by the Red at 9 set on 9-4-99 vs the Phillies.

[bryanm1982]

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One thing I noticed over the years is that confidence plays a key role in hits and the type. Once pitcher loses it, it's good night Irene, as they used to say in wrestling. I often forget to visit the mound to help raise this. It also goes the same way, when a pitcher gets his confidence up they are lights out and it is tough to get hits, but you just have to keep chipping away.

10 HR wow...no mercy by the Yanks. I am sure that would be major league record, but no! It only ties the record set by the Toronto Blue Jays on 9-14-87 vs the Orioles for AL; the NL records is held by the Red at 9 set on 9-4-99 vs the Phillies.

Part of it was me not wanting to waste another bullpen arm. After that game the CPU hit 11 HR in 12 games. So that game wasn’t from the sliders. I’m in the middle of a game right now but once I get done I will post some stats.

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Well it was a close on in Spring Training for the O's. Down 4-2 in the 9th I was only able to get one run and lost 4-3. Trumbo hit a shot to the wall, but it was caught with two runners on and then Gentry popped popped out to end the game.

Modifiers were:
Wind: 4
All Errors +1
CPU Contact -1; and they still had 10 hits and some good ones too.
Steal Freq +1

Orioles were 8/33; 2 doubles and 1 HR, 2 BB and 13 K. I need to be more patient, but that is what is good about Quick Counts you have to be and it's more competitive as a result

Rays were 10/32, 2 doubles and 1 triple, 5 BB and 6 K.

Good game over all, what cost me was a 3-2 count walk. Ball 4 was in the strike zone, but it was called a BB, that runner scored plus another run during a 3 run 2nd inning after Mancini dove for a ball and missed it that rolled to the wall. Then Jones misplayed a ball in the outfield that also rolled to the wall for a triple.

I cannot get over the 8 hit hump!

[bryanm1982]

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Well it was a close on in Spring Training for the O's. Down 4-2 in the 9th I was only able to get one run and lost 4-3. Trumbo hit a shot to the wall, but it was caught with two runners on and then Gentry popped popped out to end the game.

Modifiers were:
Wind: 4
All Errors +1
CPU Contact -1; and they still had 10 hits and some good ones too.
Steal Freq +1

Orioles were 8/33; 2 doubles and 1 HR, 2 BB and 13 K. I need to be more patient, but that is what is good about Quick Counts you have to be and it's more competitive as a result

Rays were 10/32, 2 doubles and 1 triple, 5 BB and 6 K.

Good game over all, what cost me was a 3-2 count walk. Ball 4 was in the strike zone, but it was called a BB, that runner scored plus another run during a 3 run 2nd inning after Mancini dove for a ball and missed it that rolled to the wall. Then Jones misplayed a ball in the outfield that also rolled to the wall for a triple.

I cannot get over the 8 hit hump!

What do you recommend for the CPU getting less singles and homeruns and more extra base hits? Like I feel like I’m missing the gap power. The CPU hit Distribution is below with the league’s 5 year average that I got from Fenway’s blog.

Singles: Human: 67.4% CPU: 72.3% (average is 66.8%)
Doubles: Human: 16% CPU: 11% (average is 19.6%)
Triples: Human: 2.1% CPU: 0.6% (average is 2.1%)
Homeruns: Human: 14.4% CPU: 16.1% (average is 11.6%)

BYU recommended raising solid hits and lowering Power by one. Mike Lowe said he’s going through the same thing and he is trying to lower solid hits. Fenway has CPU power at 7 and solid hits at 4.

[bryanm1982]

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My last game:

Yankees have won 9 games in a row and are now 15-4. We won the last 2 against the Red Sox and swept the Tigers and Marlins. And won the first game against the Blue Jays.

Blue Jays 1 5 0 5 singles, 3-BB, 8-K
Yankees 3 7 0 2-2B, 2-HR, 6-BB, 6-K

Modifiers:
CPU contact +1
FLD Spd +1
Human contact -1

[bryanm1982]

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Here are the stats and rankings for the Yankees for the first 19 games.

Record: 15-4
Stats, (MLB ranked)
AVG: .289 (2nd)
Runs: 113 (1st by 2)
Hits: 194 (1st by 1)
Doubles: 33 (14th)
Triples: 4 (9th)
HR: 29 (2nd)
BB: 72 (8th)
K’s: 123 (4th fewest)

ERA: 3.61 (8th)
HR allowed: 25 (24th)
BB: 62 (12th)
K’s: 150 (12th)

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What do you recommend for the CPU getting less singles and homeruns and more extra base hits? Like I feel like I’m missing the gap power. The CPU hit Distribution is below with the league’s 5 year average that I got from Fenway’s blog.

Singles: Human: 67.4% CPU: 72.3% (average is 66.8%)
Doubles: Human: 16% CPU: 11% (average is 19.6%)
Triples: Human: 2.1% CPU: 0.6% (average is 2.1%)
Homeruns: Human: 14.4% CPU: 16.1% (average is 11.6%)

BYU recommended raising solid hits and lowering Power by one. Mike Lowe said he’s going through the same thing and he is trying to lower solid hits. Fenway has CPU power at 7 and solid hits at 4.

I believe that would work, but first I might try lowering the Fielder Speed, because they be getting to balls that should be hit in the gap or down the line possibly. I do notice they are converging on the ball pretty decent. I have been watching this, but didn't want to jump at any changes yet. However, I may drop the Fielder Speed down a notch or two. Last year we had it on (0) zero so we may be around the same this year, because that worked great. I think my next game I will try it on two and then experiment on 1 then 0.

Runner speed will be the next option, but I noticed that raising this makes some of the slower runners who are less than a 50 speed run a little too fast.

That is why my modifier's are a work in progress this Spring Training before I settle on a regular season Modifier Set, I want to fine tune what I want to increase and decrease to enhance game play. Fenway's hitting spread and averages are great and I try to get my sliders around the league average, but being a video game I try to strive to a few percent on either side of the MLB average, because there are so many anomalies and numbers in motion that help determine hit and pitch outcomes.

[bryanm1982]

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I believe that would work, but first I might try lowering the Fielder Speed, because they be getting to balls that should be hit in the gap or down the line possibly. I do notice they are converging on the ball pretty decent. I have been watching this, but didn't want to jump at any changes yet. However, I may drop the Fielder Speed down a notch or two. Last year we had it on (0) zero so we may be around the same this year, because that worked great. I think my next game I will try it on two and then experiment on 1 then 0.

Runner speed will be the next option, but I noticed that raising this makes some of the slower runners who are less than a 50 speed run a little too fast.

That is why my modifier's are a work in progress this Spring Training before I settle on a regular season Modifier Set, I want to fine tune what I want to increase and decrease to enhance game play. Fenway's hitting spread and averages are great and I try to get my sliders around the league average, but being a video game I try to strive to a few percent on either side of the MLB average, because there are so many anomalies and numbers in motion that help determine hit and pitch outcomes.

I am with you on the Fielder speed. I moved it to 2 a couple games ago and we are seeing more extra base hits. I raised the CPU power to 7 and CPU solid hits to 4. The only thing is with power at 7 I don’t know if I want to go to 8 with a modifier.

[bryanm1982]

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Blue Jays 6 14 0 / 4-2B, 1-3B, 1-HR, 6-BB, 11-K
Yankees 3 7 0 / 2-2B, 1-HR, 5-BB, 6-K

Final/11 innings
Blue Jays 8 15 1 / 3-2B, 2-HR, 5-BB, 14-K
Yankees 6 9 3 / 4-2B, 2-HR, 8-BB, 4-K

After winning 8 in a row we lost 2 games in a row.

Final/10 innings
Blue Jays 3 8 2 / 2-2B, 6-BB, 13-K
Yankees 5 6 2 / 1-2B, 3-HR, 5-BB, 7-K

Judge hit a game winning 2 run homer in the 10th after Stanton tied it at 3 in the 8th with a 2 run HR. Tanaka got injured in the 2nd inning and everyone in my bullpen is tired so I had to use Gray who was scheduled to start the next game. He went 7 IP in relief giving up 3 hits and a run.

Played with Fielder Speed at 1. Modifiers was Human Power +1, Pitch Cons -1 for all, and CPU Pitch Cont -1.
Final/11 innings
Twins 7 11 0 / 2-2B, 2-HR, 4-BB, 8-K
Yankees 8 11 1 / 5-2B, 5-BB, 5-K

My 3rd extra inning game in a row to start a stretch of 18 games without a day off. My bullpen is taxed. I had to call up Luis Cessa for a spot start cause I had to use Gray last game. Cessa gave up 7 runs in 5 innings. I was down 7-2 in the 7th before scoring 3 runs to make it 7-5. Stanton had a 2 out 2 run double to tie it in the 9th. Judge had his 2nd walk off hit in a row with a RBI single in the 11th to win it. Yankees bullpen went 6 IP and gave up 3 hits and a walk strikin out 5 to keep us in the game.

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Dropped another Spring Training game this one to the Pirates 7-5.

I had a 4-2 lead, but the bullpen coughed it up.

Modifiers were in the rain

+1 Throwing error and +1 Wind

Wind was 1

Modifiers were:
OF Arm -1
Pitch Consis. -1 All (Hum and CPU)
Timing -1 HUM

Orioles were 9-33, 4 doubles, and 1 HR, 4 BB and 11 K
Pirates were 8-35, 2 doubles, and 3 HR, 4 BB and 4 K

Not a bad game overall. I adjusted the Fielder Run Speed to 2 and will leave it there for now, I don't want to make a knee jerk reaction after 1 game. But it looked good.

I finally got more than 8 hits and my timing was down one. I am still striking out way too much and not being patient!

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Picked up a victory vs the Phillies 7-2, thanks to a 6 run 3rd. Cashner started off by giving up 2 runs in the first one of then unearned though on a throwing error that allowed a man to score. Bullpen did better this game.

Modifiers were:
Wind 4
+1 power HUM'
+1 Timing HUM
-1 OF Arm

Orioles were 12-37, 4 doubles, 1 HR, 3 BB and only 7 k
Phillies were 5-29, 1 double, 3 BB and 5 K

Good offensive game for the O's and nice work by the Bullpen!

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Dropped an offensive struggle to Boston 8-6. Thanks to Chris Tillman giving up 8 runs in 2 innings off 8 hits and 3 walks and 0 K's. Once again the bullpen gave me a shot and only gave up 5 hits and 0 runs over the last 7 innings including only 2 BB and 6 k's.

Orioles were 11-37, 2 doubles, 1 triple, and 3 HR, 2 BB and 12 K
Red Sox were 13-38, 2 doubles, and 1 HR, 6 BB and 6 K

Good game, but Tillman was getting blasted as soon as his confidence dropped and it did not let up. I even visited the mound in the second, but that didn't even help him. Can you say Trade Block!

Modifiers were:
Wind 5
Reaction +1
Injury +1 (there were none)
-1 Pitch Control HUM

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From an offensive showing to a pitchers duel.

Orioles come back and win in the 9th 4-3 over the Home Team Mets. After being up 2-0 then down 3-2, Orioles get one in the 8th and 9th to win.

Orioles were 7-33, 4 doubles, 1 HR, 5 BB and 10 K
Mets were 6-33, 2 doubles, 1 HR 2 BB and 7 K

Modifiers were
Wind 8
OF ARM +1
Power -1 Hum
Pitch Cons +1 HUM

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The O's improve to 5-6 in Spring Training with a 6-4 win over the Twins.

Great game all around. I have seen movement by the fielders in the outfield. I was robbed of a double when the Twins fielder ran back and jumped at the wall to make a great catch. Slider of 2 for fielder speed seems to be working well from what I can see. They are still getting to the ball and the ones that should doubles more than likely are.

Modifiers were:
Wind 6
-1 Pitcher Control All (Hum and CPU)
+1 Timing HUM
+1 Pitcher Consis. HUM

Orioles were 11-38, 2 doubles, 3 HR, 1 BB and 12 K
Twins were 7-33, 1 double, 1 triple, 2 HR, 3 BB and 8 K

Dylan Bundy recorded 5 K's in 5 innings giving up 3 hits 2 BB and 1 ER.
Yacabonis struck out the side in the 7th. Those were my 8 K's.

One thing I want to watch is the starter stamina. Has anyone else seen it deplete faster than normal? I know it has been set on 6, but what are the thoughts that it should go to 7? I think the reliever is good though from what I can see.

[bryanm1982]

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The O's improve to 5-6 in Spring Training with a 6-4 win over the Twins.

Great game all around. I have seen movement by the fielders in the outfield. I was robbed of a double when the Twins fielder ran back and jumped at the wall to make a great catch. Slider of 2 for fielder speed seems to be working well from what I can see. They are still getting to the ball and the ones that should doubles more than likely are.

Modifiers were:
Wind 6
-1 Pitcher Control All (Hum and CPU)
+1 Timing HUM
+1 Pitcher Consis. HUM

Orioles were 11-38, 2 doubles, 3 HR, 1 BB and 12 K
Twins were 7-33, 1 double, 1 triple, 2 HR, 3 BB and 8 K

Dylan Bundy recorded 5 K's in 5 innings giving up 3 hits 2 BB and 1 ER.
Yacabonis struck out the side in the 7th. Those were my 8 K's.

One thing I want to watch is the starter stamina. Has anyone else seen it deplete faster than normal? I know it has been set on 6, but what are the thoughts that it should go to 7? I think the reliever is good though from what I can see.

I have noticed that too. I’m starting to get gas anywhere from 90-100 pitches. But at 100 my bar is already close to red and then he won’t recover enough for his next start.