Granted I'm not sure how this will effect gameplay, but I'm actually increasing both the hitters and pitchers in different areas to achieve some actually realistic stats. I've already started a season with base rosters, and the game is so much fun that it doesn't bother me a ton that the stats are way off, but I figured I'd give it a shot since teams aren't very full and see if I can come up with some good numbers. Plus, it's driving me sort of nuts seeing 3-4 guys per team hitting under .200, and team averages around .205-.220. Ugh.
I'll post some more ideas/tips in here as I go along, but here's what I've found so far:
- Most importantly, a lot of relievers have "C" rated stamina. This is not good in sim games, because the computer uses them as starters. I saw the Yankees for instance use Luis Vizcaino and Scott Proctor as starting pitchers (and they were pretty decent). Obviously, this has very little chance of happening in real life. Although even Proctor started some games a while back, he was not anything close to average. I recommend anyone you absolutely do not want in a rotation, give a D or less. I gave E's to most relievers.
- Pitchers walk WAY too many guys. I'm increasing control to B's and A's for almost everyone, C's if a guy is just ho-hum, and a D at the least if a guy is AWFUL with control (Zambrano's, Cabrera, etc.). If you go any lower than this, the guy is going to be flat out TOO awful to be a good pitcher at all. It's tough for even C pitchers to excel unless they have absolutely wicked stuff.
- There's a few pitchers that K too many guys (by a lot). I haven't looked at this yet.
- Hitting is WAY down for averages. I've gone with pretty much C or higher for contact for everyone except in a few EXTREMELY rare circumstances (Alberto Castillo, a few other really really really awful hitters). I think if you put anything under a 10 for contact, the guy won't hit over .200. From what I've seen, roughly the scale is:
10: .220
11: .240
12: .250
13: .270
14: .290
15: .320+
Obviously these change if you give a guy great speed or power, but that's a rough estimate. So in many cases, you can give a guy a C thinking you'll have an average (.250 or so) hitter, and he'll hit .220 on the regular. Doesn't make sense, but oh well.
Hope this helps for anyone wanting to tweak their rosters a bit. I've played a few games out with these, and haven't noticed anything crazy like 18-15 scores or 1-0 games, so I'm not sure how much offsetting all of these will effect gameplay. Obviously, that's the most important factor in the fun part of this game, so I don't want to knock it off by much at all.
I'll post some more ideas/tips in here as I go along, but here's what I've found so far:
- Most importantly, a lot of relievers have "C" rated stamina. This is not good in sim games, because the computer uses them as starters. I saw the Yankees for instance use Luis Vizcaino and Scott Proctor as starting pitchers (and they were pretty decent). Obviously, this has very little chance of happening in real life. Although even Proctor started some games a while back, he was not anything close to average. I recommend anyone you absolutely do not want in a rotation, give a D or less. I gave E's to most relievers.
- Pitchers walk WAY too many guys. I'm increasing control to B's and A's for almost everyone, C's if a guy is just ho-hum, and a D at the least if a guy is AWFUL with control (Zambrano's, Cabrera, etc.). If you go any lower than this, the guy is going to be flat out TOO awful to be a good pitcher at all. It's tough for even C pitchers to excel unless they have absolutely wicked stuff.
- There's a few pitchers that K too many guys (by a lot). I haven't looked at this yet.
- Hitting is WAY down for averages. I've gone with pretty much C or higher for contact for everyone except in a few EXTREMELY rare circumstances (Alberto Castillo, a few other really really really awful hitters). I think if you put anything under a 10 for contact, the guy won't hit over .200. From what I've seen, roughly the scale is:
10: .220
11: .240
12: .250
13: .270
14: .290
15: .320+
Obviously these change if you give a guy great speed or power, but that's a rough estimate. So in many cases, you can give a guy a C thinking you'll have an average (.250 or so) hitter, and he'll hit .220 on the regular. Doesn't make sense, but oh well.
Hope this helps for anyone wanting to tweak their rosters a bit. I've played a few games out with these, and haven't noticed anything crazy like 18-15 scores or 1-0 games, so I'm not sure how much offsetting all of these will effect gameplay. Obviously, that's the most important factor in the fun part of this game, so I don't want to knock it off by much at all.
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