A thought on strikes and balls

[beatlehead84]

Has any game tried to make players with plate discipline better when you are actually controlling them?

I strike out a lot on this game, and with some players it's pretty realistic that I'd be swinging at pitches a little off the plate or way off the plate down in the count. But, when you are controlling the batter it doesn't matter who you are using, it's all up to you to judge pitches.

What if a game made it so it tells you some of the time if the pitches are out of the zone? Higher for players who walk a lot or maybe have good walk to strikeout ratios and lower for the opposite.

I think you'd have to have an option to turn it off as well, because I know some people don't have a problem drawing walks. For average players it would allow us to play an advanced game and not strike out all the time and draw walks and make it more true to the game. Right now, the only option we really have is slowing the pitches down which makes it too easy.

Just a thought. Maybe somebody has mentioned this before.

[brunnoce]

Re: A thought on strikes and balls

i guess in this game they use the hitters eye feature to help those kind of players...like kendall in oakland...he barely strikes out in real life, only about 45 times last year, and in this game his hitters eye is most of the time huge, close to 100%(unless he is in a slump or had already beeing Ked in the same game) ...thats a way to help you reading th pichtes...what i do is, when i have 2 strikes i place the hitters eye usually low and outside to protect me from chasing a ball there, usually the AI throws their strike out picth there, so if i dont see the pitch its very possible that hes throwing something that i can at least make contact. this is really making a diferene in the stats between players that have plate dicipline..i manage only 1 strike out with kendall in 9 games so far in the franchise. while other players like n.swisher already have about 9, although he does get a decent amount of walks too.

[baa7]

Re: A thought on strikes and balls

What if a game made it so it tells you some of the time if the pitches are out of the zone? Higher for players who walk a lot or maybe have good walk to strikeout ratios and lower for the opposite.

That's a great idea. Just don't know If I'd play with it on, given I already hate the fact they show where some pitches are coming in this game. I personally prefer to play without all those cheats on.

[JBH3]

Re: A thought on strikes and balls

i guess in this game they use the hitters eye feature to help those kind of players...like kendall in oakland...he barely strikes out in real life, only about 45 times last year, and in this game his hitters eye is most of the time huge, close to 100%(unless he is in a slump or had already beeing Ked in the same game) ...thats a way to help you reading th pichtes...what i do is, when i have 2 strikes i place the hitters eye usually low and outside to protect me from chasing a ball there, usually the AI throws their strike out picth there, so if i dont see the pitch its very possible that hes throwing something that i can at least make contact. this is really making a diferene in the stats between players that have plate dicipline..i manage only 1 strike out with kendall in 9 games so far in the franchise. while other players like n.swisher already have about 9, although he does get a decent amount of walks too.

Agree.

I love the batters eye. I think it is a good "video game" way to mimic a patient hitter. However, for someone like Kendall who has a great eye... I think the batters eye should be even bigger.

It seems like 100% is too small.

[brunnoce]

Re: A thought on strikes and balls

lol
yeah he does have a great eye...but hey its playing perfectly in my fanchise...only 2 strike outs and 5 walks in 17 games so far! wile siwsher for instance has 15 strike outs and 7 walks...
one thing i love about the hitters eye is that it also changes depending on the picther..like against king felix i rmember kendals eye wanst that big..and he evan struck me out...just like yesterdays game where king felix fanned 12

[findinghomer]

Re: A thought on strikes and balls

i posted this same idea on 2k forums awhile back. a real hitters eye. allow us to see the pitch location based on individual players real life tendencies, in the inside edge report. as it is now, hitters have one eye , ours. everyone on my team strikes out equally, none more than the other and thats how baseball games have always been. thats not sim.

[CMH]

Re: A thought on strikes and balls

The problem with hitter's eye being used to display a patient hitter is that it doesn't.

Patience and contact are two different things.

I think hitter's eye is great to display a player's ability to make contact with a pitch. Definitely a difference playing with a good contact hitter vs. a weak one.

But, there should be something different for guys with great eyes. I would vote for having a blue or red circle (assuming they do mean ball or strike. Still not sure about that) pop up on pitches close to the corners. Great eyes would see it more often, while weaker eyes will see it less to the point that the weakest eyes wouldn't see it at all.

Either that or have the hitter not swing even if you attempt to swing. I know that takes control away from the player, but I think it would be nice to have a guy like Bobby Abreu not swing at a pitch that he knows would be a ball. Of course, it wouldn't happen all the time, but for a guy with a great eye, it would happen a lot of the time.