I was perusing the MILW roster. I looked at the K and BB ratings, specifically. Hmm . . . Bill Hall, with an atrocious K-to-BB ratio last year, has a higher BB rating than K rating. Geoff Jenkins struck out a lot last year. He also has a higher BB rating than K rating. In fact, both Hall and Jenkins had lower K ratings than most of their teammates. Am I missing something? How could these inaccuracies lead to realistic stats?
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One concern I have is that many P’s have Contact ratings in the 40’s. That makes no sense given many average-hitting position players have their contact in the 50’s.
So what I started experimenting with last night is finding some sort of common base to start from when editing batting ratings. So I set CPU Hitting sliders @ 50, then set CPU hitter’s Contact @ 60, Doubles @ 40, and Triples and HR’s @ 20. First pitch down the middle to the first CPU batter: a beauty of a laser line drive to shallow right field, the sort of hit I have not seen in this game, and the sort of high, hard hit that probably would have gone over the wall otherwise. I’ve seen a lot of HR’s / balls to the track and a lot of grounders, but not a lot of hard-hit ropes to the shallow-mid OF.
My guess is Contact ratings will need to be dropped. And I feel because Contact is too high – with too many HR’s and high fly balls as a result – it makes the Power swing redundant and pointless: too much risk and too little reward given you can easily hit HR’s with Contact. Plus the 300. hitters in this game have their Contact ratings @ 100. What if Shoeless Joe shows up? Can’t move a player’s Contact rating to 136 :-) -
Re: player ratings
One concern I have is that many P’s have Contact ratings in the 40’s. That makes no sense given many average-hitting position players have their contact in the 50’s.
So what I started experimenting with last night is finding some sort of common base to start from when editing batting ratings. So I set CPU Hitting sliders @ 50, then set CPU hitter’s Contact @ 60, Doubles @ 40, and Triples and HR’s @ 20. First pitch down the middle to the first CPU batter: a beauty of a laser line drive to shallow right field, the sort of hit I have not seen in this game, and the sort of high, hard hit that probably would have gone over the wall otherwise. I’ve seen a lot of HR’s / balls to the track and a lot of grounders, but not a lot of hard-hit ropes to the shallow-mid OF.
My guess is Contact ratings will need to be dropped. And I feel because Contact is too high – with too many HR’s and high fly balls as a result – it makes the Power swing redundant and pointless: too much risk and too little reward given you can easily hit HR’s with Contact. Plus the 300. hitters in this game have their Contact ratings @ 100. What if Shoeless Joe shows up? Can’t move a player’s Contact rating to 136 :-)Comment
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According to another website, FlyingFinn will try his hand at creating an editor for MLB 2K5, as soon as he gets his copy of the game. Hope it's sooner than later!Comment
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According to another website, FlyingFinn will try his hand at creating an editor for MLB 2K5, as soon as he gets his copy of the game. Hope it's sooner than later!Comment
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Wouldn't that be great!Comment
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Wouldn't that be great!Comment
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Okay. I've spent some more time looking at ratings for MILW. Some things look good: Overbay is rated 85 for doubles. He should be, since he hit 53 of them last year. Jenkins and Lee have the highest HR ratings. Good. Unfortunately, other ratings make no sense: Jenkins is rated a 96 for Fielding Range. That would put him in the elite category. No offense to Geoff, but he's not THAT good. Bill Hall (2B-SS) is rated a 0 for Fielding Anticipation. Every other infielder on the roster (except J.J. Hardy, a rookie SS, who rates a 41) is rated in the 70s for FA. Finally, let's talk about Ben Sheets. Last year, he had 264 Ks in 237 IP, with only 32 BB. That's phenomenal. What does he rate in this game for Ks and BBs? 64 and 65 respectively. I would have expected him to have the highest K rating and lowest BB rating. Even if these ratings take the last 3 years into consideration, I would expect something better than a pedestrian 64 and 65.
The more I play this game, the more I like it. But I'm reluctant to play it "for real" because I don't trust the player ratings. I'd like to think Ben Sheets will set himself apart for his excellent K:BB ratio. But, according to the ratings, his K:BB ratio is comparable to Bruce Kieschneck's.
Does anyone else share my frustration?
Last edited by pstrickert; 03-16-2005, 12:52 AM.Comment
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Okay. I've spent some more time looking at ratings for MILW. Some things look good: Overbay is rated 85 for doubles. He should be, since he hit 53 of them last year. Jenkins and Lee have the highest HR ratings. Good. Unfortunately, other ratings make no sense: Jenkins is rated a 96 for Fielding Range. That would put him in the elite category. No offense to Geoff, but he's not THAT good. Bill Hall (2B-SS) is rated a 0 for Fielding Anticipation. Every other infielder on the roster (except J.J. Hardy, a rookie SS, who rates a 41) is rated in the 70s for FA. Finally, let's talk about Ben Sheets. Last year, he had 264 Ks in 237 IP, with only 32 BB. That's phenomenal. What does he rate in this game for Ks and BBs? 64 and 65 respectively. I would have expected him to have the highest K rating and lowest BB rating. Even if these ratings take the last 3 years into consideration, I would expect something better than a pedestrian 64 and 65.
The more I play this game, the more I like it. But I'm reluctant to play it "for real" because I don't trust the player ratings. I'd like to think Ben Sheets will set himself apart for his excellent K:BB ratio. But, according to the ratings, his K:BB ratio is comparable to Bruce Kieschneck's.
Does anyone else share my frustration?
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yeah its kind of like they had some guys mom finish things up, as far as 0 for anticipation i've seen that with a # of players mostly young pitchers but i haven't looked at a lot of teams.
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yeah its kind of like they had some guys mom finish things up, as far as 0 for anticipation i've seen that with a # of players mostly young pitchers but i haven't looked at a lot of teams.
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