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  • CSTOLL813
    Rookie
    • Mar 2012
    • 4

    #1

    Base running help.....

    Can anyone explain the finer points of succesfully running the bags. I am costing my team much needed runs with carless errors. I can advance the lead runner, but I am having trouble getting the other runners to advance. Help!!
  • Yeats
    MVP
    • Mar 2012
    • 1581

    #2
    Re: Base running help.....

    Study the baserunning controls obviously. When you have them down, setup up a test game and intentionally walk 1-2 players, then switch controllers and practice baserunning/stealing. I think you can even save the game at that spot so you can just reload the save and keep practicing.
    Last edited by Yeats; 03-21-2012, 10:49 AM.

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    • atlyoungin
      Rookie
      • Oct 2008
      • 105

      #3
      I still make a lot of baserunning mistakes, but I've gotten better. I find that the AI of the lead runner is usually pretty good on easy decisions (like advancing from 3rd to home on a sac fly) so I won't usually control them if I have someone else on base. So, I'll use the A button to select the runner prior to the pitch being thrown and then just use the analog stick to choose the base I want to send him to.

      I stol get caught in rundowns from time to time but I've gotten better

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      • Yeats
        MVP
        • Mar 2012
        • 1581

        #4
        Re: Base running help.....

        Originally posted by atlyoungin
        So, I'll use the A button to select the runner prior to the pitch being thrown and then just use the analog stick to choose the base I want to send him to.
        You find that easier than using the triggers/buttons? I find locating the stick with my thumb to be one extra thing I struggle to coordinate, lol. I use the triggers/buttons, they just seem to be in a much more intuitive position on the controller when I'm in the midst of fumbling around trying to move runners plus locate controller buttons and what not.

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        • atlyoungin
          Rookie
          • Oct 2008
          • 105

          #5
          Originally posted by Yeats
          You find that easier than using the triggers/buttons? I find locating the stick with my thumb to be one extra thing I struggle to coordinate, lol. I use the triggers/buttons, they just seem to be in a much more intuitive position on the controller when I'm in the midst of fumbling around trying to move runners plus locate controller buttons and what not.
          I always get LT/LB confused and I'll advance all runners when that's not my intent. The analog stick is more intuitive to me because I just have to point in the direction of the base I want the runner to go in

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          • atlyoungin
            Rookie
            • Oct 2008
            • 105

            #6
            Originally posted by atlyoungin
            I always get LT/LB confused and I'll advance all runners when that's not my intent. The analog stick is more intuitive to me because I just have to point in the direction of the base I want the runner to go in
            Also, if I have a runner on first and I know I want him to try to score, I can press down on the analog and he'll go for home and I don't have to do anything else

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