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  • munky1307
    Rookie
    • Jan 2011
    • 191

    #16
    Originally posted by Blazzen
    I use a 162 game season so the year end stats work out better, but what I do is play roughly every 6th game so I get to pitch with each starter in the rotation in order like I'm playing every game without having to play every game.

    For example:

    Rotation is Hudson, Hanson, Jurrjens, Lowe, Minor

    Hudson - PLAY
    Hanson - sim
    JJ - sim
    Lowe - sim
    Minor - sim
    Hudson - sim
    Hanson - PLAY

    ...and so on.
    This is actually a fantastic idea. Hope you don't mind I might borrow your idea!
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    • Trevytrev11
      MVP
      • Nov 2006
      • 3259

      #17
      Re: 162-game season

      Originally posted by tazbk
      Serious question.....what fun do you (and others) get out of simming? Is it just to play multiple seasons and handle all of the off-season tasks and truly building and getting involved in franchise mode?

      Maybe it's just because I'm anal, but I hate leaving stats to my season in the hands of the cpu. I have a hard time letting go. Maybe I'm the only one. The joy for me is actually playing each series and going through the marathon.

      I'm in no way knocking anyone that likes to sim, I guess I'm just ignorant to that type of game experience that others have.

      I would like to hear, simmers thoughts.
      I'm on board with you...once I sim a game, I feel like my impact to the final outcome of everything is diminished. Though, with that being said, the length of games within a baseball season makes it tough either way.

      I hit .320 with a guy and put up other MVP caliber stats in my games and the cpu hits .265 with mediocre to average stats and he ends up with a .280 average 22 HR's and like 74 RBI's. That just kind of ruins it for me.

      I think it was 2K9 (Giambi was back on the A's) and for whatever reason, I could just absolutely mash with him compared to everyone else. My team average was like .270, but he was hitting .360 or .370 and pacing for about 50+ HR's. I think I was probably 80 or 90 games into the season and he was hitting .360 with about 30 HR's..so I simmed just to see what happened and he finished with an avg. under .300 and only hit like 5 or 6 HR's the rest of the way.

      It's situations like that, which make simming tough to accept.

      I usually end up giving it a shot and then burning out a month or two into the season, but a lot of that had to do with poor AI logic in the past that would end up ruining games for me.

      This is the absolute beauty of football games though...what takes one season in the MLB is 10 seasons in the NFL.

      MVP 05 was the last time I was able to accomplish this. I played about 1 and 2/3 seasons. Before I got married and after I was through with college, my wife and I were living together, but had opposite work shifts. I would get off work and could knock out 5 or 6 games at a time. The games only took 35 or 45 minutes, so in 2-3 hours, you could knock out 2 series.

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      • JBH3
        Marvel's Finest
        • Jan 2007
        • 13506

        #18
        Re: 162-game season

        I always do a full 162-game season, but sim about a month worth of games.
        Originally posted by Edmund Burke
        All that is needed for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.

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        • hitstreak13
          MVP
          • Sep 2008
          • 1117

          #19
          Re: 162-game season

          Originally posted by tazbk
          Serious question.....what fun do you (and others) get out of simming? Is it just to play multiple seasons and handle all of the off-season tasks and truly building and getting involved in franchise mode?

          Maybe it's just because I'm anal, but I hate leaving stats to my season in the hands of the cpu. I have a hard time letting go. Maybe I'm the only one. The joy for me is actually playing each series and going through the marathon.

          I'm in no way knocking anyone that likes to sim, I guess I'm just ignorant to that type of game experience that others have.

          I would like to hear, simmers thoughts.
          Its crazy that there was a time in the show (09) where I accidently skipped like my 60th game of the season and it autosaved. Well, I HAD to restart my franchise. I just can't do it, as it makes me very uncomfortable. I'm like that in my football games as well. I will restart if something happened where the CPU simmed my game.

          To get back on topic, I will most likely not play a full season in MLB 2k11 if their mlb today feature is as addicting as most people say. If they keep track of your stats, than it will take up 90% of my playing time. With DNP ratings, new fielding, etc. this feature has massive potential. Plus, I work 6 to 4 so that leaves my evenings free now that my gf has entered the air force
          Last edited by hitstreak13; 02-21-2011, 12:25 PM.
          Angels= 2025 World Series Champions!!

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          • CMH
            Making you famous
            • Oct 2002
            • 26203

            #20
            Re: 162-game season

            I can never finish a full 162 game season, so I'm in the process of considering some real dramatic work around to get through not only one, but more than one.

            It all depends on how deep the Franchise mode is. If I don't find it deep enough, I'll be fine with MLB Today. I think it's a wonderful feature.

            But, if Franchise mode can really grab me with a lot of attention to off-season and GM tasks, I may try some things. Still deciding on:

            1. Play one game a series.
            2. Play only weekend games.
            3. Sim to July and play the second half of the season.

            Yea, that third one seems pretty wild, but I simply don't have the time to play 162 games. I'm not sure I even have the time to play 81 or 40.

            I wouldn't even think about it if MLB Today had a franchise option similar to NBA Live where it would use the stats you accumulated in the game's you played. Something like that would bring me closer to this idea of having the world running in the background of my actions.

            Maybe call it Dynamic MLB Today.
            "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

            "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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            • JBH3
              Marvel's Finest
              • Jan 2007
              • 13506

              #21
              Re: 162-game season

              Originally posted by Trevytrev11
              I'm on board with you...once I sim a game, I feel like my impact to the final outcome of everything is diminished. Though, with that being said, the length of games within a baseball season makes it tough either way.

              I hit .320 with a guy and put up other MVP caliber stats in my games and the cpu hits .265 with mediocre to average stats and he ends up with a .280 average 22 HR's and like 74 RBI's. That just kind of ruins it for me.

              I think it was 2K9 (Giambi was back on the A's) and for whatever reason, I could just absolutely mash with him compared to everyone else. My team average was like .270, but he was hitting .360 or .370 and pacing for about 50+ HR's. I think I was probably 80 or 90 games into the season and he was hitting .360 with about 30 HR's..so I simmed just to see what happened and he finished with an avg. under .300 and only hit like 5 or 6 HR's the rest of the way.
              This is exactly one reason why I LIKE to SIM games; aside from just trying to get through more seasons.

              In user vs cpu games I always seem to see lower walk totals from both hitters and pitchers I control, and then I always seem to get more out of Utley and Howard. Simming helps balance out the realism IMO.

              If I'm striking out too much as one hitter, simming will maybe get their walks in line some. If I'm unrealistically hot w/ one player, simming will help bring that back down to earth.
              Originally posted by Edmund Burke
              All that is needed for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.

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              • JayhawkerStL
                Banned
                • Apr 2004
                • 3644

                #22
                Re: 162-game season

                Originally posted by CMH
                I wouldn't even think about it if MLB Today had a franchise option similar to NBA Live where it would use the stats you accumulated in the game's you played. Something like that would bring me closer to this idea of having the world running in the background of my actions.

                Maybe call it Dynamic MLB Today.
                This is my dream mode. Let the game import stats from all the game you don't play, but use the stats from the game you do play to affect wins and losses and everything else. If they would allow you to go back and play earlier games, it would be even better.

                I gotta believe we will see it in MLB 2K12. It makes too much sense. It is the ultimate way to sim the games you don't play.

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                • CMH
                  Making you famous
                  • Oct 2002
                  • 26203

                  #23
                  Re: 162-game season

                  Originally posted by Jayhawker
                  This is my dream mode. Let the game import stats from all the game you don't play, but use the stats from the game you do play to affect wins and losses and everything else. If they would allow you to go back and play earlier games, it would be even better.

                  I gotta believe we will see it in MLB 2K12. It makes too much sense. It is the ultimate way to sim the games you don't play.
                  Yea, I noticed your posts about it. Good to see someone else that feels the same way.

                  I wanted to call it a dream mode as well. Hesitated, but I'm glad you did it anyway.

                  It's possible they wanted to get it right first and then expand on it. So hopefully in 2K12.
                  "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                  "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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                  • Blazzen
                    Pro
                    • Mar 2008
                    • 786

                    #24
                    Re: 162-game season

                    Originally posted by JBH3
                    This is exactly one reason why I LIKE to SIM games; aside from just trying to get through more seasons.

                    In user vs cpu games I always seem to see lower walk totals from both hitters and pitchers I control, and then I always seem to get more out of Utley and Howard. Simming helps balance out the realism IMO.

                    If I'm striking out too much as one hitter, simming will maybe get their walks in line some. If I'm unrealistically hot w/ one player, simming will help bring that back down to earth.
                    The above, and the fact that I don't have time to play 162 games is why I sim.

                    The idea of playing every 6th game isn't mine, I got it from someone else on here a while ago.
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                    • jake44np
                      Post Like a Champion!
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 9563

                      #25
                      Re: 162-game season

                      I have played a whole 162 game season with the Reds every year since I believe 1996.
                      Was '96 the first year for triple play baseball? If it was that was the year I started.
                      I will check when i get home tonight as I have the stats from every year written down at home.
                      Its actually kind of cool pulling the stats/standings out from year to year and looking at them. I played guys whole career's that played only for the Reds. My wife thinks I am a geek every time I get my huge binder out that has all the stats in it.
                      ND Season Ticket Holder since '72.

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                      • AmazingMets
                        Rookie
                        • Aug 2009
                        • 228

                        #26
                        Re: 162-game season

                        Originally posted by jake44np
                        I have played a whole 162 game season with the Reds every year since I believe 1996.
                        Was '96 the first year for triple play baseball? If it was that was the year I started.
                        I will check when i get home tonight as I have the stats from every year written down at home.
                        Its actually kind of cool pulling the stats/standings out from year to year and looking at them. I played guys whole career's that played only for the Reds. My wife thinks I am a geek every time I get my huge binder out that has all the stats in it.
                        It must be interesting to see your end of year stats compared to the end of the year stats for the team in real life!

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                        • JayhawkerStL
                          Banned
                          • Apr 2004
                          • 3644

                          #27
                          Re: 162-game season

                          Originally posted by AmazingMets
                          It must be interesting to see your end of year stats compared to the end of the year stats for the team in real life!
                          It's the Reds. Probably not all that interesting. :wink:

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                          • munky1307
                            Rookie
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 191

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Jayhawker
                            It's the Reds. Probably not all that interesting. :wink:
                            Hey now, no badmouthing the NL Central champs and home of the NL MVP.

                            Ok we were pretty terrible for a long time. That's why we needed a good baseball game so we could see a winning team!!!
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                            • The Boss
                              Rookie
                              • Dec 2008
                              • 5

                              #29
                              Re: 162-game season

                              I'm not gonna lie. I ripped a full season last year with the Tigers on 2k10. It was brutal but fun. I was off work at the time.

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                              • AmazingMets
                                Rookie
                                • Aug 2009
                                • 228

                                #30
                                Re: 162-game season

                                Originally posted by Jayhawker
                                It's the Reds. Probably not all that interesting. :wink:
                                hahah very true

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