FenwayMac 2018 Legend Sliders

[Yankees82]

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Wow! Multiple rain delays! I learned quickly on rain delays not to keep your starter out there. You must have gone DEEP into the ‘pen

Yeah that is true. Well my first one was in the 6th inning. So I took the starter out. I took the RP out in the 2nd delay in the 7th. But then in the 8th on the 3rd one I left him in cause it was only a 45 minute one and the RP didn’t lose any stamina.

It was weird that I had the delays so close together. On all my other delays it stopped raining after the first delay.

[Yankees82]

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I do kind of feel guilty though. At the beginning of the Boston series I lowered the CPU contact to 1. I just didn’t want them to kill me like the last series against them. But they still hit like crazy. These are their stats for the series. So it would have been interesting on how high the numbers would have been with contact at 2.

AVG: .316
BABIP: .417
HR: 1
Singles: 26
Doubles: 8
Triples: 1
Runs: 13

[FenwayMac]

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Well, homestand is wrapped with a 5-4 loss to Arizona. I split the series with them. They are not a fantastic team, but they are pretty good, especially with The 3-4 hitters and their ability to strike out hitters. They were painting edges the entire series. Homestand wraps up at 7-3.

Only a couple games with the lower solid hits, so nothing earth-shattering to report, but I felt like I saw a couple hit types that I don’t see very often that I thought looked pretty cool. I had a couple down the line bloop doubles that kept me guessing on whether they would stay fair as well as some nice liner singles with enough height to get over the infielders.

Time to hit the road for series with the Mets, SD and LAD. Gut-check time.

[bullpen45]

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So, I played 10 games with the sliders.
Won 2 and lost 8...but got shutout 5 times.
I'm batting .150 and haven't hit a homerun.
My era is about 4.65.
So, it's pretty obvious that I' not good enough.
What slider changes would you guys recommend to improve my hitting ?

Thanks !

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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So, I played 10 games with the sliders.
Won 2 and lost 8...but got shutout 5 times.
I'm batting .150 and haven't hit a homerun.
My era is about 4.65.
So, it's pretty obvious that I' not good enough.
What slider changes would you guys recommend to improve my hitting ?

Thanks !

I lose a lot too lol. But i agree that batting average needs to come up. What team are you using, and how good should they be expected to be offensively? I know earlier you mentioned not being patient enough, has that gotten better? Pitch selection makes a BIG difference. I tell people they should try to see 16 pitches per inning, which is MLB average. Not every inning will happen like that, but i am talking on average (approx 145 pitches seen per game).

How many strikeouts? What does it feel like the problem is offensively? Are you getting on base but cant score? Etc.

[FenwayMac]

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So, I played 10 games with the sliders.
Won 2 and lost 8...but got shutout 5 times.
I'm batting .150 and haven't hit a homerun.
My era is about 4.65.
So, it's pretty obvious that I' not good enough.
What slider changes would you guys recommend to improve my hitting ?

Thanks !

Well, let’s just tackle the offense.

If you want to stick with Legend, there are some things you can do, from small effect to big effect. You are using zone, correct?

Least impactful would be to lower the CPU pitch speed so you can have a bit more time to track the ball into the zone. Lower both offspeed and fastball until you start to square up better.

You can also increase your timing to give you a bigger solid contact window. Both pitch speed and timing can be easily reversed back once you feel more comfortable.

More impactful is raising your contact up. This will make you PCI create better hits even if you don’t square up perfectly. This may throw off your hit type percentages, or BA, so keep an eye one if it throws your stats too far in the positive direction (although it is certainly more fun).

You can also lower CPU pitch consistency to force them to pitch more pitches into the zone rather than painting the corners a ton.

Hitting strategy-wise try to cut down your strike zone a bit and focus on timing your swing. You will find that even when you don’t square up a hit perfectly, if you can time it well, sometimes it will still work out.

For pitching I would consider getting your control and consistency to a spot where you feel pretty comfortable painting the edges at will. Once you are doing that then you can back those off a bit as well.

[bullpen45]

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I lose a lot too lol. But i agree that batting average needs to come up. What team are you using, and how good should they be expected to be offensively? I know earlier you mentioned not being patient enough, has that gotten better? Pitch selection makes a BIG difference. I tell people they should try to see 16 pitches per inning, which is MLB average. Not every inning will happen like that, but i am talking on average (approx 145 pitches seen per game).

How many strikeouts? What does it feel like the problem is offensively? Are you getting on base but cant score? Etc.

Yeah I don't mind losing, but I was beaten 11-0, 9-0, 6-0...loll
I'm using the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I've been taking lots of pitches, I get 3-4 walks a game. I strikeout 5 to 8 times.
It feels like I'me never making solid contacts.
Lots of popups.
Maybe lower the pitch speed would help me...

[bullpen45]

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Well, let’s just tackle the offense.

If you want to stick with Legend, there are some things you can do, from small effect to big effect. You are using zone, correct?

Least impactful would be to lower the CPU pitch speed so you can have a bit more time to track the ball into the zone. Lower both offspeed and fastball until you start to square up better.

You can also increase your timing to give you a bigger solid contact window. Both pitch speed and timing can be easily reversed back once you feel more comfortable.

More impactful is raising your contact up. This will make you PCI create better hits even if you don’t square up perfectly. This may throw off your hit type percentages, or BA, so keep an eye one if it throws your stats too far in the positive direction (although it is certainly more fun).

You can also lower CPU pitch consistency to force them to pitch more pitches into the zone rather than painting the corners a ton.

Hitting strategy-wise try to cut down your strike zone a bit and focus on timing your swing. You will find that even when you don’t square up a hit perfectly, if you can time it well, sometimes it will still work out.

For pitching I would consider getting your control and consistency to a spot where you feel pretty comfortable painting the edges at will. Once you are doing that then you can back those off a bit as well.

Thanks for the quick replies (you and NolanRyansSnowmonkey).
Yes I've been using zone.
I think I'm not reacting quickly enough, so I'll try to lower the pitch speed.
I don't want to mess with too many things. But I doubt I'll get better at hitting (I'm an old man...at 43).

I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks !

[Yankees82]

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So the Yankees beat the Indians in 5 games to advance to the ALCS. We are taking on the Mariners who beat the Astros. The Yankees won games 2 and 3 and 5.

Seattle beat the Yankees 3-2 in a close game 1. The Yankees came back and won the 2nd game 4-2. In game 3 we head to Seattle and I had to stop in the 7th inning and we are down 2-1. My offense needs to get going we aren’t getting the big hits.

[FenwayMac]

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So the Yankees beat the Indians in 5 games to advance to the ALCS. We are taking on the Mariners who beat the Astros. The Yankees won games 2 and 3 and 5.

Seattle beat the Yankees 3-2 in a close game 1. The Yankees came back and won the 2nd game 4-2. In game 3 we head to Seattle and I had to stop in the 7th inning and we are down 2-1. My offense needs to get going we aren’t getting the big hits.

Man you are just living on the edge. Crazy-exciting games. You may need to play some viva piñata after the season is over!

[FenwayMac]

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Thanks for the quick replies (you and NolanRyansSnowmonkey).
Yes I've been using zone.
I think I'm not reacting quickly enough, so I'll try to lower the pitch speed.
I don't want to mess with too many things. But I doubt I'll get better at hitting (I'm an old man...at 43).

I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks !

You might find that the timing slider does the trick. Sometimes regardless of how fast or slow you need to react, your timing will still be off. I would say if it is a PCI placement issue, then pitch speed should help. If it is late/earlier, poor contact then timing should help

[Yankees82]

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After the playoffs end I’m going to start a season using the Cubs. I’m going to still keep doing the Yankees and the offseason.

Yeah it’s so much pressure and high pressure moments. Like everytime a runner gets on base the pressure builds up. All 3 games they have scored first. I really need to just get on the board early and score some runs to give my pitching some breathing room.

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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Thanks for the quick replies (you and NolanRyansSnowmonkey).
Yes I've been using zone.
I think I'm not reacting quickly enough, so I'll try to lower the pitch speed.
I don't want to mess with too many things. But I doubt I'll get better at hitting (I'm an old man...at 43).

I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks !

I think that lowering pitch speed will help quite a bit, while keeping those numbers good. If your strikeout numbers start getting too low because of it i would drop timing a notch in addition, and see what happens then.

[sublime55]

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Does CPU Power at 7 lead to too many hard hit balls?

[FenwayMac]

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Does CPU Power at 7 lead to too many hard hit balls?

The power slider is basically determined by the percentages of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs. When I was testing on lower levels I found the CPU was singles-heavy. The combo of contact at 2 and power at 7 balances is out, although this is over a decent sample size. You will get games where the CPU smashes everything.