S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

[bryanm1982]

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Hopefully the real life Pirates don’t take a nose dive like my Pirates are doing. We were 15-8 and then the Dodgers come in and take 2 out of 3, go to Washington hoping for a rebound and end up losing 2 out of 3. And then went to Tampa and got swept. So now we sit at 17-15 in 2nd place.

The pitching has been horrible. Had 17 straight games that the starter couldn’t go 6 innings. And that started to tax the bullpen. Starters had a 6.24 era in that span.

Half the starting lineup has a blue snowflake. We need a spark soon or we will become the 2022 Pirates.

I play the first and last games of every series. I am 7-11 in the games I play and 10-4 in the games I sim.

[DarthRambo]

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I am in the process of setting up CPU bullpens in my 30 team franchise. I just want to know if I am setting up bullpens correctly.
1. Lowest rated pitcher in LRP slot under 40 stamina
2. Best LHP and RHP in SU slots. LHP in SU1 slot and RHP in SU2 slot
3. Closer with stamina at least 29
4. Remaining pitchers in MRP slots from best to worst.
Relief pitchers should have stamina of 29 or lower. Also only one left handed pitcher is required in bullpen in SU1 pitching position.
I hope this setup in correct.
Thanks

Bigdawg would be best to answer this, but from what he tested this year that looks correct to me.

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[kamackeris76]

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So if you set up the bullpen, how do you stop the ai just reverting back?

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[DarthRambo]

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So if you set up the bullpen, how do you stop the ai just reverting back?

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Have to put lineups/rotation on manual for your CPU team's profile.

Don't worry, though. You can always let cpu set their lineups. Just click automatically adjust lineups when given the prompt for a returning injured player etc. But setting this to manual will keep their bullpen the same unless you change it.

I recommend setting injury notifications to MLB only for the cpu teams as well. This way when a RP is injured you'll know and can easily adjust their bullpen with the newly called up RP.

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[PhlliesPhan6]

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I wish they would separate MLB and Minor League rotations/lineups. I hate when I do 30 team control and have to click through a bunch of pop ups about minor league lineups and rotations. I always just hit auto but it would still be nice if we didn't have to deal with any minor league decisions.

[bryanm1982]

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I wish they would separate MLB and Minor League rotations/lineups. I hate when I do 30 team control and have to click through a bunch of pop ups about minor league lineups and rotations. I always just hit auto but it would still be nice if we didn't have to deal with any minor league decisions.

Totally agree. They can do that for injuries so they should be able to do that for lineups. Even better would be to separate lineups and rotation. I don't really care how they set their lineups as much as the rotation. I would set the lineups to auto and rotation to manual.

[bryanm1982]

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The Cardinals split the 4 game series against the Giants.

Game one:

STL 7 10 0
SF 1 5 0

W- Jack Flaherty ( 1 - 1 )
L- Sean Manaea ( 2 - 2 )
S- Jo Jo Romero ( 3 )

STL SP- Flaherty 6.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3.54 ERA
SF SP- Manaea 2.2 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 6 BB, 1 K, 5.54 ERA

STL HRs- O'Neill (8) Nootbaar (4)
SF HRs- Luciano (1)

PotG- Lars Nootbaar

Notes - Romero gets his 3rd save of the year by saving the bullpen going the last 3 innings. Nootbaar is a double short of the cycle.

Game two:

STL 5 11 0
SF 7 11 2

W- Luke Jackson ( 1 - 0 )
L- Adam Wainwright ( 2 - 1 )
S- Camilo Doval ( 7 )

STL SP- Wainwright 5.1 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 6 BB, 2 K, 3.48 ERA
SF SP- Stripling 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 2.14 ERA

STL HRs- Edman (3)
SF HRs- Wade Jr (2)

PotG- Mike Yastrzemski

Notes - Stripling got hit in the head with a line drive in the 1st inning and had to come out. He will be able to make his next start.

Game three:

STL 7 14 0
SF 4 9 1

W- Steven Matz ( 1 - 2 )
L- John Brebbia ( 4 - 1 )
S- Ryan Helsley ( 8 )

STL SP- Liberatore 1.1 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 7.80 ERA
SF SP- Cobb 4.0 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 4 BB, 1 K, 5.11 ERA

STL HRs- Goldschmidt (6)
SF HRs- None

PotG- Paul Goldschmidt

Notes - Liberatore was sent down to AAA to get consistent starts instead of being in the bullpen. Matz will

Game four:

STL 2 11 0
SF 3 12 0 F/10

W- Taylor Rogers ( 1 - 1 )
L- Andre Pallante ( 0 - 1 )
S- None

STL SP- Montgomery 6.1 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3.00 ERA
SF SP- Webb 5 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2.70 ERA

STL HRs- None
SF HRs- None

PotG-

Notes -

~~Injury news~~



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Up Next:

Cardinals ( 16 - 10 , 1st NL Central , +1.5 gb ) @ Dodgers ( 23 - 3 , 1st NL West , +2.5 gb )


Game one: Miles Mikolas ( 3 - 2 ) 3.90 ERA vs Julio Urias ( 3 - 1 ) 2.41 ERA

Game two: Jack Flaherty ( 1 - 1 ) 3.54 ERA vs Tony Gonsolin ( 4 - 0 ) 3.00 ERA

Game three: Adam Wainwright ( 2 - 1 ) 3.48 ERA vs Walker Buehler ( 4 - 1 ) 3.66 ERA

[VanillaSoda]

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Just a little RTTS update on some of what I have been doing, I settled on a 7 power for the CPU, I was on 6 and just never saw any HR's or anything close, the closest was still not at the wall, I moved it to 8 and it was way too much, constant HR's even on really good pitches, 7 has done the job well for me and given them the ability to hit HR's and absolutely clobber horrible pitches, I also had a HR swing on a really good slider that mechanically looked great watching the replay, so fairly happy with this ability to occur, will see if this occurs too much/more but even if it does, I am happy with it occurring vs nothing at all on 6.

I am still messing with contact and timing, I am currently on 7 and 7 for Timing and Contact with 4 Solid Hits. I think so far this has given mixed results which I had a really good pitching game with 9 K's and then the next one I gave up 3 ER's with 4 K's and 8 hits, keeping in mind my pitcher is a 77 and was allowing no ER's until I messed with sliders.

Overall I think doing 7-7-7-4 so far has given me the results I like, the only thing I am paying attention to currently is the foul frequency being at 0 as if I do end up needing to touch Con or Timing again, I will need to eliminate some of those doubles being done on the foul line to even it all out.

Anyways, thought I would update based on the last conversation at least for the RTTS version of things.

[bryanm1982]

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

Just a little RTTS update on some of what I have been doing, I settled on a 7 power for the CPU, I was on 6 and just never saw any HR's or anything close, the closest was still not at the wall, I moved it to 8 and it was way too much, constant HR's even on really good pitches, 7 has done the job well for me and given them the ability to hit HR's and absolutely clobber horrible pitches, I also had a HR swing on a really good slider that mechanically looked great watching the replay, so fairly happy with this ability to occur, will see if this occurs too much/more but even if it does, I am happy with it occurring vs nothing at all on 6.

I am still messing with contact and timing, I am currently on 7 and 7 for Timing and Contact with 4 Solid Hits. I think so far this has given mixed results which I had a really good pitching game with 9 K's and then the next one I gave up 3 ER's with 4 K's and 8 hits, keeping in mind my pitcher is a 77 and was allowing no ER's until I messed with sliders.

Overall I think doing 7-7-7-4 so far has given me the results I like, the only thing I am paying attention to currently is the foul frequency being at 0 as if I do end up needing to touch Con or Timing again, I will need to eliminate some of those doubles being done on the foul line to even it all out.

Anyways, thought I would update based on the last conversation at least for the RTTS version of things.

Thanks for the update. Glad it is working out for you. It is crazy how other years we have been trying to tone down HR and this year seems like we have to give them a boost.

[HeadCoach2.0]

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The Cardinals split the 4 game series against the Giants.

Game one:

STL 7 10 0
SF 1 5 0

W- Jack Flaherty ( 1 - 1 )
L- Sean Manaea ( 2 - 2 )
S- Jo Jo Romero ( 3 )

STL SP- Flaherty 6.0 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 3.54 ERA
SF SP- Manaea 2.2 IP, 7 H, 6 ER, 6 BB, 1 K, 5.54 ERA

STL HRs- O'Neill (8) Nootbaar (4)
SF HRs- Luciano (1)

PotG- Lars Nootbaar

Notes - Romero gets his 3rd save of the year by saving the bullpen going the last 3 innings. Nootbaar is a double short of the cycle.

Game two:

STL 5 11 0
SF 7 11 2

W- Luke Jackson ( 1 - 0 )
L- Adam Wainwright ( 2 - 1 )
S- Camilo Doval ( 7 )

STL SP- Wainwright 5.1 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 6 BB, 2 K, 3.48 ERA
SF SP- Stripling 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, 2.14 ERA

STL HRs- Edman (3)
SF HRs- Wade Jr (2)

PotG- Mike Yastrzemski

Notes - Stripling got hit in the head with a line drive in the 1st inning and had to come out. He will be able to make his next start.

Game three:

STL 7 14 0
SF 4 9 1

W- Steven Matz ( 1 - 2 )
L- John Brebbia ( 4 - 1 )
S- Ryan Helsley ( 8 )

STL SP- Liberatore 1.1 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 3 BB, 2 K, 7.80 ERA
SF SP- Cobb 4.0 IP, 6 H, 4 ER, 4 BB, 1 K, 5.11 ERA

STL HRs- Goldschmidt (6)
SF HRs- None

PotG- Paul Goldschmidt

Notes - Liberatore was sent down to AAA to get consistent starts instead of being in the bullpen. Matz will

Game four:

STL 2 11 0
SF 3 12 0 F/10

W- Taylor Rogers ( 1 - 1 )
L- Andre Pallante ( 0 - 1 )
S- None

STL SP- Montgomery 6.1 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 3.00 ERA
SF SP- Webb 5 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2.70 ERA

STL HRs- None
SF HRs- None

PotG-

Notes -

~~Injury news~~



____________________________________________

Up Next:

Cardinals ( 16 - 10 , 1st NL Central , +1.5 gb ) @ Dodgers ( 23 - 3 , 1st NL West , +2.5 gb )


Game one: Miles Mikolas ( 3 - 2 ) 3.90 ERA vs Julio Urias ( 3 - 1 ) 2.41 ERA

Game two: Jack Flaherty ( 1 - 1 ) 3.54 ERA vs Tony Gonsolin ( 4 - 0 ) 3.00 ERA

Game three: Adam Wainwright ( 2 - 1 ) 3.48 ERA vs Walker Buehler ( 4 - 1 ) 3.66 ERA

You are damn sure doing better than the real life Cardinals that is for sure.

The real life Cards are 10-19. That is a pure dumpster fire.

If you fall that far under .500 within the first 30 games you have serious problems.

I am a life long Mets fan but before I chose the Mets I briefly was a Cardinal fan.

That would be a fun team to do a franchise with one day.

[VanillaSoda]

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Thanks for the update. Glad it is working out for you. It is crazy how other years we have been trying to tone down HR and this year seems like we have to give them a boost.

Yea it is really strange that things seem to change every year, what I will say is the last 2 years I have not been able to get anything close to what I feel play well, this year is completely different, power was fairly easy to solve and the increase in power also increased hard hit singles which I thought was interesting, even buffing the contact has been fairly easy the question is how much do I want and which settings give the most variance of results, I would say this year is much better than the past 2 years combined at minimum.

[VanillaSoda]

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You are damn sure doing better than the real life Cardinals that is for sure.

The real life Cards are 10-19. That is a pure dumpster fire.

If you fall that far under .500 within the first 30 games you have serious problems.

I am a life long Mets fan but before I chose the Mets I briefly was a Cardinal fan.

That would be a fun team to do a franchise with one day.

Ugh, as a Cardinals fan its just embarrassing at this point, I am not sure what the higher ups see in some of these guys but given how good this off season was and the fact the most we got was Contreras which I am now wondering if it was a mistake, I am baffled by our choices.

[bryanm1982]

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Ugh, as a Cardinals fan its just embarrassing at this point, I am not sure what the higher ups see in some of these guys but given how good this off season was and the fact the most we got was Contreras which I am now wondering if it was a mistake, I am baffled by our choices.

Yeah, they should have pursued one of the SS that was available. Could have moved Edman to 2B.

[HeadCoach2.0]

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Ugh, as a Cardinals fan its just embarrassing at this point, I am not sure what the higher ups see in some of these guys but given how good this off season was and the fact the most we got was Contreras which I am now wondering if it was a mistake, I am baffled by our choices.

The Cards are a proud franchise. The franchise is definitely better than what they are putting on the field right now.

Wainwright striking out Beltran looking in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS still hurts until this day.

I will be glad when Wainwright retires so I no longer have to see him out there.

Molina who hit the homer in the top of the 9th to give you guys the lead has finally retired.

Yeah I still remember that.

[VanillaSoda]

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The Cards are a proud franchise. The franchise is definitely better than what they are putting on the field right now.

Wainwright striking out Beltran looking in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS still hurts until this day.

I will be glad when Wainwright retires so I no longer have to see him out there.

Molina who hit the homer in the top of the 9th to give you guys the lead has finally retired.

Yeah I still remember that.

Yea, and the product we are putting out on the field currently stinks! Its not even watchable baseball