S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

[Jayyd11]

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

Question how do you set up the RPs, little confused on that

[bryanm1982]

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

Question how do you set up the RPs, little confused on that

So you put your lowest rated RP with less than 40 stamina in the LR1 and LR2 spots. Those will be like your middle relief or mop-up pitchers. You don't want guys with higher than 40 stamina in there or they'll go 3-4 innings every time. You will put your high stamina RP (6th starter) in the MR4 spot. Your closer will be in your CP spot and your best set up guy in the SU1 spot. So every other RP will be in the MR1-3 spots. Your SU2 and LR3 spots will be empty. We recommend that you use 13 pitchers. But if you want to use 12, you can leave the LR2 spot empty. I have not found a rhyme or reason between the usage of MR1 to MR3 spots. It is pretty random.

Let me know if you have questions. Your bullpen should look like this.

LR1: Low rated RP with less than 40 stamina.
LR2: Low rated RP with less than 40 stamina.
LR3: Empty
MR1: Decent RP/Set up
MR2: Decent RP/Set up
MR3: Decent RP/Set up
MR4: 6th starter or RP that has the highest stamina
SU1: Best set up RP
SU2: Empty
CP: Closer

[Skippy85410]

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

You can lower contact at 5 or 6 then if you need more strikeouts. We have it high cause we are getting too many strikeouts and not even have to work for them. And since it is Allstar.

Was that on Allstar? The only other thing is you said you were hitting your spots. So were they inside the strike zone? Were they hitting the bad pitches?

I always pitch on All-star/classic interface with no visual aids. I was constantly changing elevations and painting corners. Some of the better hitters were making contact out of the zone. But most of them laid off of bad pitches which is another issue I've mentioned before. CPU hitters are way too disciplined in this year's game. You HAVE to throw strikes or you will walk a ton of batters.

[bryanm1982]

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

I always pitch on All-star/classic interface with no visual aids. I was constantly changing elevations and painting corners. Some of the better hitters were making contact out of the zone. But most of them laid off of bad pitches which is another issue I've mentioned before. CPU hitters are way too disciplined in this year's game. You HAVE to throw strikes or you will walk a ton of batters.

I would lower contact until you start seeing the strikeouts you are looking for. Maybe 6 or 7 will be a good spot. Also lower timing as well to 5.

[dnr0720]

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

I do like when Chris asks Boog if he's "down with OBP" As an old school hip hop head it always makes me chuckle lol

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Speaking old school hip hop how cool is it Eric B & Rakim made sound track. I ain't no joke is a hip hop classic. To this day I think Rakim is one of the greatest lyricists ever.

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[Gabby]

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

I was wondering what the final consensus is on the fidelity roster. I know that the relief pitchers stamina’s are low compared to other rosters. Over the course of the season will that have any affect using these sliders. Also someone mentioned that the CPU’s hitting seem to be affected in a negative way.
After looking over the roster it appears excellent but I don’t want to start a franchise if stats will be affected in the long run.
Thanks

[kylesedlacko]

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

I was wondering what the final consensus is on the fidelity roster. I know that the relief pitchers stamina’s are low compared to other rosters. Over the course of the season will that have any affect using these sliders. Also someone mentioned that the CPU’s hitting seem to be affected in a negative way.
After looking over the roster it appears excellent but I don’t want to start a franchise if stats will be affected in the long run.
Thanks

It’s a great roster in theory, but I just couldn’t get past how weak the hits felt. I can’t really attest to the low staminas effecting anything, but I know he has a recommendation to edit incoming rookies to keep everything in line with what the base roster is…and that just seems like too much work in my eyes. I ended up settling on Full Minors V2 and that’s been great for the 6 or so games I’ve played with in my franchise.

[The Gamer]

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

Speaking old school hip hop how cool is it Eric B & Rakim made sound track. I ain't no joke is a hip hop classic. To this day I think Rakim is one of the greatest lyricists ever.

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Nice to have Scenario also.

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[bryanm1982]

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

I was wondering what the final consensus is on the fidelity roster. I know that the relief pitchers stamina’s are low compared to other rosters. Over the course of the season will that have any affect using these sliders. Also someone mentioned that the CPU’s hitting seem to be affected in a negative way.
After looking over the roster it appears excellent but I don’t want to start a franchise if stats will be affected in the long run.
Thanks

I'm just not sure what the RP would do in the middle of the season in the middle of 20 games in a row. And what the AI would do with their bullpens when everyone is out of energy. Would the ERA's be bloated because of that? I'm not sure. You can always run a test franchise really quick and sim to August and look at the stats.

That is a good point about the draft picks being edited. But it all depends on how long you want to keep the franchise going. Are you planning on playing 10 seasons where you'll play with those drafted players? It might be a lot of work going through the 180 players to edit. And you'll have to do 30 team control or just do your own players which wold make it easier.

Play a couple of games with the rosters with these sliders and see how they feel. We have some that say the offense seems weaker. I'm not sure what the direct cause of that is. Not sure if pitchers are better rated or batters are lower rated?

[Jayyd11]

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

So you put your lowest rated RP with less than 40 stamina in the LR1 and LR2 spots. Those will be like your middle relief or mop-up pitchers. You don't want guys with higher than 40 stamina in there or they'll go 3-4 innings every time. You will put your high stamina RP (6th starter) in the MR4 spot. Your closer will be in your CP spot and your best set up guy in the SU1 spot. So every other RP will be in the MR1-3 spots. Your SU2 and LR3 spots will be empty. We recommend that you use 13 pitchers. But if you want to use 12, you can leave the LR2 spot empty. I have not found a rhyme or reason between the usage of MR1 to MR3 spots. It is pretty random.

Let me know if you have questions. Your bullpen should look like this.

LR1: Low rated RP with less than 40 stamina.
LR2: Low rated RP with less than 40 stamina.
LR3: Empty
MR1: Decent RP/Set up
MR2: Decent RP/Set up
MR3: Decent RP/Set up
MR4: 6th starter or RP that has the highest stamina
SU1: Best set up RP
SU2: Empty
CP: Closer

So when the pop says a team has a invalid roster line up and I pick auto will that change the lineup?

[Kramer5150]

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

Play a couple of games with the rosters with these sliders and see how they feel. We have some that say the offense seems weaker. I'm not sure what the direct cause of that is. Not sure if pitchers are better rated or batters are lower rated?

·Re-rates of all attributes, overalls, and potentials for every player on 40-man rosters and former MLB players on MiLB contracts (~1400 players)

In-depth pitch reworks for MLB players to best replicate repertoires and pitch effectiveness

In checking out his roster thread, these 2 lines jumped out to me, it seems like there were reworks for both which I could see resulting in what I witnessed when checking out the rosters.

As I said before, I have a great respect for those that work on rosters for any of the major sports games as I'm sure it is a massive job, so I am in no way "knocking" anybodys work.

[bryanm1982]

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

So when the pop says a team has a invalid roster line up and I pick auto will that change the lineup?

That SHOULD just fix the batting lineup. When they are missing a starting pitcher, it will say the rotation is invalid.

[DarthRambo]

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

Speaking old school hip hop how cool is it Eric B & Rakim made sound track. I ain't no joke is a hip hop classic. To this day I think Rakim is one of the greatest lyricists ever.

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Agreed. Rakim definitely one of the greatest lyricists of all time. Now if I gotta say greatest rap artist ever, it's Eminem. No one can touch him lyrically. Insane bars. The flow, so many cadences he can attack a beat with. And the bars. I listen to really old songs today and still catch a bar I never heard or got before.

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[DarthRambo]

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CPU Contact at 9 is way too high. How do I know? Just for 1 game to try it out, I jacked my ace starter attributes all the way up and put the Human Pitcher Control slider to 10. I was nailing every spot. I was getting easy outs, but only had 2 K's in 8.0 innings pitched.

You don't get Ks just because you can locate your pitches. At least not on this game. You get them by changing speeds mostly. And then secondly is changing eye level of the batter. Last three games I played with contact at 9 I had Ks of 14, 4, and 15. I honestly hate how easy they made it this year. Last year I had to work hard just to reach 10Ks.

And it doesn't matter the difficulty. I can get same amount on all. Only difference is on legend nearly all outs are via strikeout or it's a hit which isn't fun lol. Unless I leave contact and timing at default or maybe 6. Then it's back to overall weak cpu offense for me and not challenging. Allstar just for me anyway, presents best balance I'm looking for once contact and timing is raised for cpu offense to be threatening.

Edit: just for fun I pitched only on legend vs Cubs with Phillies. Default cpu hitting sliders, still control 3 and consistency 2 for me.

Cubs had 7 hits. 2 homeruns (one due to low consistency), 3 doubles. But still 16 strikeouts. That's how legend typically plays out for me on default. If I used default control and consistency then they would have less hits. And crazy enough, I'd probably have less than Ks. Weird how that works lol.

If I raise their hitting then enough to not get so many Ks, I am overpowered, and out of 27 outs, over half are guaranteed Ks cause it's almost the only way I can get outs lol.

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[dnr0720]

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Agreed. Rakim definitely one of the greatest lyricists of all time. Now if I gotta say greatest rap artist ever, it's Eminem. No one can touch him lyrically. Insane bars. The flow, so many cadences he can attack a beat with. And the bars. I listen to really old songs today and still catch a bar I never heard or got before.

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Can't argue with that.

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