JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

[forme95]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

Injuries @ 6 is the sweet spot I think. You see just enough to balance the restricted 90 man roster and just enough to have to make thinking moves in a season.

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[Armor and Sword]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

I am still not on board with 6 stamina Josh.

Just not there and might not be there the more I play.

I simply have not seen enough to warrant the change.


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[Rmiok222]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

I think I’m going to revisit all star with your changes. I went to HOF pitching and found myself lowering and adjusting a bunch of values. All star is the difficulty where I find myself tinkering much less


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[JoshC1977]

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I am still not on board with 6 stamina Josh.

Just not there and might not be there the more I play.

I simply have not seen enough to warrant the change.


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I'm relying on my gut here a bit to be fair. Something about 5 feels a hair off to me - it's not so much when guys tire or pitch counts as much as when they lose effectiveness. I think 5 is fine; but I'm just looking to milk a bit more out of guys and let the high-end guys stand out just a wee bit longer.

[JoshC1977]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

A couple of updates to the OP

CPU Contact = 6
User/CPU Stamina = 6
Injuries = 6


The big one here is the CPU Contact. With user pitch control at 6, this was a needed counter-balance. Now, they are disciplined, but WILL drive pitches in the zone. Before, I was just seeing WAY too many called strikes with pitches well in the zone. The great part, you can still K batters AND still walk them.

Someone might say, if you need the balance, why not go back to default for both? Good question. Answer = because it was too easy to strike out batters. We want an intelligent AI that can keep us mentally focused, This change should allow for that to happen in spades.

Change of heart here. I'm going to hold-off on the CPU contact change to 6. Had a break this afternoon doing some other stuff and the more I thought about it...I need to isolate values here. So, I am going to run with the SP Stamina and Injury value increases for awhile. I need to see sample size with those changes before I should consider the next adjustment.

Sorry for any inconvenience but I think this is for the best overall. I made the mistake of jumping the gun too often last year; not repeating that now.

[VeseThesis]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

I'm relying on my gut here a bit to be fair. Something about 5 feels a hair off to me - it's not so much when guys tire or pitch counts as much as when they lose effectiveness. I think 5 is fine; but I'm just looking to milk a bit more out of guys and let the high-end guys stand out just a wee bit longer.

Stamina at 6 is perfect. I feel your sliders are “old school baseball” based and that’s in a good way. The stamina pushes starters out to where they should be in my book and the baseball I grew up on. Getting some really good 2-1 games from #1 vs. #1 starters.

[No.27]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

I'm relying on my gut here a bit to be fair. Something about 5 feels a hair off to me - it's not so much when guys tire or pitch counts as much as when they lose effectiveness. I think 5 is fine; but I'm just looking to milk a bit more out of guys and let the high-end guys stand out just a wee bit longer.

I agree with both you and Armor. There really is only a hair in it. My personal gameplay style has me leaving it at 5 as I’m a shocker for leaving my Starter in one inning too long. At 5 it’s forcing me to add a layer of gameplay by utilising the 26th man out of the bullpen more often which I’m enjoying with the Yankees.

[JoshC1977]

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I agree with both you and Armor. There really is only a hair in it. My personal gameplay style has me leaving it at 5 as I’m a shocker for leaving my Starter in one inning too long. At 5 it’s forcing me to add a layer of gameplay by utilising the 26th man out of the bullpen more often which I’m enjoying with the Yankees.

Someone said to me earlier tonight....if we could set it at 5.5, it would be darn near perfect
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Different note: something has been bugging the crap out of me with this game. The incredible variety I had in results last year has been lacking (30+ games across two franchises had both teams under 6 runs in EVERY SINGLE GAME). That's what drove my aborted attempt with raising CPU contact - something was just off.

It finally dawned on me as the announcers kept saying "and a line drive"....over and over and over.

The solution is quite a standard one, lower solid hits to 4. Batted ball trajectories have a lot more variety and it is allowing the CPU in particular to get more balls between fielders without touching their key sliders. They are also behaving with more urgency at the plate vs taking strike after strike.

I'll note: we are now back to last year's OP setup except I am rolling with the higher injury value (which has noticeably helped).

[No.27]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

Someone said to me earlier tonight....if we could set it at 5.5, it would be darn near perfect
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Different note: something has been bugging the crap out of me with this game. The incredible variety I had in results last year has been lacking (30+ games across two franchises had both teams under 6 runs in EVERY SINGLE GAME). That's what drove my aborted attempt with raising CPU contact - something was just off.

It finally dawned on me as the announcers kept saying "and a line drive"....over and over and over.


The solution is quite a standard one, lower solid hits to 4. Batted ball trajectories have a lot more variety and it is allowing the CPU in particular to get more balls between fielders without touching their key sliders. They are also behaving with more urgency at the plate vs taking strike after strike.

I'll note: we are now back to last year's OP setup except I am rolling with the higher injury value (which has noticeably helped).

Snap! I suggested lowering Solid Hits by 1 for someone having an abundance of HRs over in Armors Thread. To me it’s the Slider equivalent of putting on a pair of comfy slippers. Something about it just seems right. I think it might be related to the difficultly the game has in replicating the size of the field.

Injuries at 6 works for me because I’m trying to get a feel for the real life Yankees.

[lere2001]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

Hey Josh

I started having an issue where everything I was lining up was leaving the park, instead of having hard hit doubles or anything like that, the ball was always gone. I even put up 20 points in a game with 8 HRs. What would the adjustment be? Power or Solid Hits? I'm always confused between those two sliders.

Thanks

[JoshC1977]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

Hey Josh



I started having an issue where everything I was lining up was leaving the park, instead of having hard hit doubles or anything like that, the ball was always gone. I even put up 20 points in a game with 8 HRs. What would the adjustment be? Power or Solid Hits? I'm always confused between those two sliders.



Thanks

Try reading two posts above yours


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[GrantF330]

Hey (update)

Thanks all for the Advice. On me starting the game with Dynamic with settings at 5.
So the game is Good now been doing great.
I followed the Settings leaving the Pitch control at 6
I was wondering while I plan on staying on dynamic should I make the most recent adjustments ??? Or just leave it alone

Thanks all again And Thanks again for the initial advice

Happy Easter

[GainzBro]

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I'm relying on my gut here a bit to be fair. Something about 5 feels a hair off to me - it's not so much when guys tire or pitch counts as much as when they lose effectiveness. I think 5 is fine; but I'm just looking to milk a bit more out of guys and let the high-end guys stand out just a wee bit longer.

Kershaw just twirled 8 innings at 108 pitches versus my team leaving for a pinch hitter in a close game and his effectiveness never tailed off at 5 stamina on HOF. I know this is just a one game example. But it is a high-end guy getting it done.

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[TopSide83]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

Just played my first game with your sliders after using armors for the first month of having the game. Overall the sliders are great. Lost 6-2 and only 2 home runs in the game. All the hits were organic and plenty of variety.

Still having issues with the cpu not striking out or missing enough pitches. They foul off some of the toughest pitches and make contact on others that I just don’t understand. I had 6ks in 8 innings pitched and a total of 15 missed out of 158 pitches 32 fouls! I just want the cpu to miss like I do

[TopSide83]

Re: JoshC1977's "Maximize Player Ratings" MLB 20 Sliders

Im going to stick with these sliders going forward. Something about HOF this year that just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s like a slugfest every game and once I hit a home run one inning the next you better believe the cpu is going to hit one.

Your sliders the game feels so much more organic. Surprised that coming from HOF to all star that these weren’t even easy for me. So far I’ve lost both games and everything seemed fair.

Thank you and good job. I’m using 9-8 pitch speeds because I can’t do the slow pitch speeds anymore