S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

[DarthRambo]

Re: S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

You guys can start with raising cpu consistency. Their misses are way off target and easy to read and the HBP can be a little much at time which leads to lower confidence for the pitchers.



Also this year pitch speed is super slow so I recommend that you go anywhere 8-10. I personally like 8.



The other thing I’ve noticed while playing full games is that it’s a little too easy for the user to throw strikes. Especially early in the count. I’m usually up 0-2 a lot of the time and my final strike percentages after games are pretty high.



Just my two cents. Overall good sliders. Solid hits at 3 really opens up the hit variety

Thanks bro! I will say that pitch speed on default feel slower than years past. I could probably handle 6, maybe 7. But 8-10 yikes lol. I'm already late on fastballs with default.

We were actually just talking about raising cpu consistency to 7 or 8 cause they seem to toss more meatballs than I can remember this year. And yeah the hbp is ridiculous. Even using quick counts I can usually count on getting hit once per game.

We have user control and consistency at 3/2. If you are seeing too high of strike percentage, I'd lower control to 2 or 1. I don't recommend consistency any lower than 2 or it's far too wild and unrealistic imo.

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[ninertravel]

Re: S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

Sorry man, that is frustrating I know. Really not sure what could be done other than crank up their consistency to like 10 and slowly lower if you don't see them. I suppose one advantage with quick counts is less pitches thrown so less likely to be HBP. It's always been a problem but if it's worse this year than ever that really sucks.

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yeah true but it is literary happening on back to back pitches. if ejections were a thing they would be gone it is intentionally done by CPU. no idea why. I might tweak a few things and report back.

as for pitch speed yeah i put it to 6 at first I was off but now hitting it as good as 5 might try 7 next. I think my offence needs to be slowed down. I am right now at least getting on average 6 runs a game need to lower that to 4 at least.

[Jayyd11]

Re: S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

Tbh it’s playing great rn only change is pitch speed to 10 no other changes

[ninertravel]

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Lol I still had fielding errors at 0 not 5 settings from when you changed it

As as soon as I fixed that hits are drying up better I think the fielding errors isn’t just senior errors it’s about the way they make routes and get to the ball.

[SlyBelle]

Re: S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

This is just a legacy issue with the game. You'll rarely see errors, even with infield throwing errors at 10 like we use. I think it say 8 in OP but I always put it at 10. If you crank up the fielding errors high all it causes is fielders to dive and knock down balls instead of making clean plays. Outfielders will dive and rarely catch the ball. None of which would be an error but just doesn't make the game flow very well.

In game injuries at 10 you will have some on rare occasions. They seem to always come in bunches when they decide to happen.

Personally I do something different so I have equal opportunity to have injuries on my team as the cpu.

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Thanks, that's a little bit of a bummer. Might have to experiment with the errors as it would be disappointing to absolutely zero happen. There have been a few times where I thought an error should have been awarded but never happened. Guess was kind of hoping maybe just a bug in recording them Same with injuries, but since I have it maxed out already, not sure I'll be able to do much with that.

[bryanm1982]

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Thanks, that's a little bit of a bummer. Might have to experiment with the errors as it would be disappointing to absolutely zero happen. There have been a few times where I thought an error should have been awarded but never happened. Guess was kind of hoping maybe just a bug in recording them Same with injuries, but since I have it maxed out already, not sure I'll be able to do much with that.

I think errors are a little better in 23. I am seeing more of them. One time the score keeper must have been in a bad mood. The third baseman dove for the ball and got it. But tried for the double play and threw the ball sitting on his butt and it pulled the 2B off the bag. They gave him an error.

[bryanm1982]

Re: S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

I will start that range up when I fire the game back up shortly. Thanks brother, and will keep posted on how it’s working out.


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I do have an idea. So I have played 5 games at least and have only seen a player question the safe call at first once. But I am keeping track.

But occasionally you will see the manager yell at the umpire for balls and strike. Sometimes for the batter or pitcher. So my idea would be when he yells at the ump for the batter, the batter is ejected. When he does it for the pitcher, the pitcher is ejected. Again, I don’t know how often it does it but if it happens rarely, you can make it automatic. If it happens quite a bit, then you can do a random generator and make it 50/50.

[HeadCoach2.0]

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I was up 3-1 on the Marlins in the 7th inning when I had the game crash that happens when you use the regional theme. Now I gotta play the whole game over.
😡😡😡

I will be using the Show theme from now on.

You gotta put too much into these games to sit there and have to play it all over. I don't even feel like playing it over again tonight.

SDS has to do better than this.

[bryanm1982]

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Yeah it is too bad. I can see if it was doing it during early release but there should have been a patch for it on release day. Hopefully there is one by this week.

[SlyBelle]

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I think errors are a little better in 23. I am seeing more of them. One time the score keeper must have been in a bad mood. The third baseman dove for the ball and got it. But tried for the double play and threw the ball sitting on his butt and it pulled the 2B off the bag. They gave him an error.

Are you using the sliders from the original post for errors? Just strange as I have been playing since early access and not a single error recorded for me or cpu, although it seemed to me that certain plays should have been an error. With me playing the pirates, I expected to see a bunch

[Lil Worm]

Re: S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

I do have an idea. So I have played 5 games at least and have only seen a player question the safe call at first once. But I am keeping track.



But occasionally you will see the manager yell at the umpire for balls and strike. Sometimes for the batter or pitcher. So my idea would be when he yells at the ump for the batter, the batter is ejected. When he does it for the pitcher, the pitcher is ejected. Again, I don’t know how often it does it but if it happens rarely, you can make it automatic. If it happens quite a bit, then you can do a random generator and make it 50/50.

And this is why you and Darth are the brains of this operation!!! I love it!!!


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[Lil Worm]

S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

I do think with the new disengagement rule this year and steals being real high so far this season I’m going to go ahead and max out the steal attempt slider and see how it plays.

I take that back. I was thinking we had it to 8 already. So I’m running with 7 now.
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[bryanm1982]

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Are you using the sliders from the original post for errors? Just strange as I have been playing since early access and not a single error recorded for me or cpu, although it seemed to me that certain plays should have been an error. With me playing the pirates, I expected to see a bunch

I have played 11 games so far tracking everything for my franchise. Using the OP serttings (5/5/8/0), the CPU has 5 errors and I have 4 errors total.

[DarthRambo]

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I do think with the new disengagement rule this year and steals being real high so far this season I’m going to go ahead and max out the steal attempt slider and see how it plays.

I take that back. I was thinking we had it to 8 already. So I’m running with 7 now.
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Yeah I saw a stat the other day that blew my mind. There were 7 stolen bases in the first two days of the season in 2022. In 2023 there were 31. Definitely due to the pitch clock and pitcher unable to disengage more than twice in an at bat.

Last night Cleveland did get Julio good though. Julio had great jump but pitcher stepped off and threw him out. I'm really not a big fan of this disengagement rule though. Everything else I love.

But from the stat I mentioned I immediately thought about maybe raising Steal frequency and ability.

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[PhlliesPhan6]

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Just curious, has anyone tried these sliders with Quick Manage? The couple of games I tried with it have bene painfully low scoring. I even had a game that was a slugfest up to the 5th inning but didn't have time to finish the game so I quick managed and it was all 0's the rest of the way.