Re: Armor & Sword & Marino’s MLB The Show 18 Classic/Directional Simulation Sliders
I can provide further proof of the extreme variance you can get in this game. I'll preface by saying I've used Armors sliders since day 1 with the exception of pitch speed. My franchise team this year is the Twins and holy s*** has my season turned. I started 12-4, led by solid offensive output, a stable bullpen and iffy starting pitching. I then went through a stretch of the backend of my pen struggling to finish games and I was at 19-13. Since then, I have moved Lynn, and called up Fernando Romero. My starting pitching in my recent stretch has been pretty rock solid, a shaky start here or there but much improved. Berrios is emerging as the ace. Meanwhile my pen overall remains solid, but the backend is a dumpster fire. I lead the league in blown saves, Reed, rodney and pressly have all gotten tries in the 9th but they all seem to take a dump when asked to close. I'd hate to try hildenberger since I value his middle/later relief role and situational circumstances to force double plays. Needless to say, acquiring a closer on the market might be the way I have to go. The real big problem recently is the offense. Multiple guys are slumping hard and I'm watching my numbers steadily decline. My strikeouts have increased, homer rate decreased and my ability to hit with runners in scoring position has been horrid. I am now 20-21. I've seen Sanos average go from the .320's to the .270's in this stretch, Doziers avg has fallen about 20 points. Rosario is the only position player on the roster who hasn't caught the cold stretch. He's maintaining a .290 ish .340 ish line. You know it's bad when I had a game recently I drew 8 walks and still only could muster 5 runs and like 7 hits which btw, is an outburst in this stretch I'm on right now. Naturally I thought I'd break my losing streak that game but Pineda got hurt 1/3 of an inning in and then tayron guerrero made it 2 inn before he got hurt so I exhausted my entire pen just to try and get through 9 and just couldn't make it all the way before the Angel's tied it in the 9th and had to go to extras with no more pen arms available. (Seriously, the baseball gods hate me). Hopefully the tides turn and some snap out of this funk soon. With only 10 divisional games played through 41 games, (7-3) I'm hoping when I finally get more consistent division games it will help. Detroit and kc aren't world beaters and I'm 6-2 against the sox.
So with all that being said, there is my update thus far. it is absolutely true the peaks and valleys are real except mine isn't like the great valley, it's the Grand Canyon. I'll update down the road. Meanwhile I'll continue to follow along on some of the other franchises in here. Watching Armors Yankess play offense lately is making me jealous.
I can provide further proof of the extreme variance you can get in this game. I'll preface by saying I've used Armors sliders since day 1 with the exception of pitch speed. My franchise team this year is the Twins and holy s*** has my season turned. I started 12-4, led by solid offensive output, a stable bullpen and iffy starting pitching. I then went through a stretch of the backend of my pen struggling to finish games and I was at 19-13. Since then, I have moved Lynn, and called up Fernando Romero. My starting pitching in my recent stretch has been pretty rock solid, a shaky start here or there but much improved. Berrios is emerging as the ace. Meanwhile my pen overall remains solid, but the backend is a dumpster fire. I lead the league in blown saves, Reed, rodney and pressly have all gotten tries in the 9th but they all seem to take a dump when asked to close. I'd hate to try hildenberger since I value his middle/later relief role and situational circumstances to force double plays. Needless to say, acquiring a closer on the market might be the way I have to go. The real big problem recently is the offense. Multiple guys are slumping hard and I'm watching my numbers steadily decline. My strikeouts have increased, homer rate decreased and my ability to hit with runners in scoring position has been horrid. I am now 20-21. I've seen Sanos average go from the .320's to the .270's in this stretch, Doziers avg has fallen about 20 points. Rosario is the only position player on the roster who hasn't caught the cold stretch. He's maintaining a .290 ish .340 ish line. You know it's bad when I had a game recently I drew 8 walks and still only could muster 5 runs and like 7 hits which btw, is an outburst in this stretch I'm on right now. Naturally I thought I'd break my losing streak that game but Pineda got hurt 1/3 of an inning in and then tayron guerrero made it 2 inn before he got hurt so I exhausted my entire pen just to try and get through 9 and just couldn't make it all the way before the Angel's tied it in the 9th and had to go to extras with no more pen arms available. (Seriously, the baseball gods hate me). Hopefully the tides turn and some snap out of this funk soon. With only 10 divisional games played through 41 games, (7-3) I'm hoping when I finally get more consistent division games it will help. Detroit and kc aren't world beaters and I'm 6-2 against the sox.
So with all that being said, there is my update thus far. it is absolutely true the peaks and valleys are real except mine isn't like the great valley, it's the Grand Canyon. I'll update down the road. Meanwhile I'll continue to follow along on some of the other franchises in here. Watching Armors Yankess play offense lately is making me jealous.
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