Strike Zone is horrendously off

**Dodger** · 03-19-2003, 05:24 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

In an attempt to replicate realism, I would rather have video baseball games have the strike zone resemble how it is actually called than how it is suppossed to be called. It is NOT realistic to have strikes called on pitches at your letters. If you want pitches at the letters to be called strikes, coach a little league baseball team. In a simulation of major league baseball (Which WSB is trying to do), letter pitches would be balls. I hope this is fixed for next year. With that said, I am getting more used to the expanded strike zone and do enjoy the game alot. As long as I'm hoping, I also wish the AI would advance runners more often from second to home on singles and up a base on sac flies and ground balls to the right side.

**JRod** · 03-19-2003, 06:57 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

Actually it's not by the book...

The Book

Mid point between the shoulders and the belt and the beneath the hollow of the knee cap.

**JRod** · 03-19-2003, 06:57 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

Actually it's not by the book...

The Book

Mid point between the shoulders and the belt and the beneath the hollow of the knee cap.

**HBBFAN** · 03-19-2003, 07:01 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

No sprts videogame can be perfect and exact to its real life counterpart but can come close LOL

**HBBFAN** · 03-19-2003, 07:01 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

No sprts videogame can be perfect and exact to its real life counterpart but can come close LOL

**Prisoner97P187** · 03-20-2003, 03:06 AM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

After playing a few games the strike zone is a little annoying, I can live with it.

**Prisoner97P187** · 03-20-2003, 03:06 AM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

After playing a few games the strike zone is a little annoying, I can live with it.

**SpartyGreen** · 03-20-2003, 04:36 AM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

<blockquote>Quote:<hr />
Actually it's not by the book...

The Book

Mid point between the shoulders and the belt and the beneath the hollow of the knee cap.

<hr /></blockquote>
Well, that's about what they have in WSB. I thought, though, that it was supposed to be judged from a "normal" batting stance, not just from when the batter is ready to hit the ball. Since this is the case, I would go up there looking like Bagwell or Vaughn.

**SpartyGreen** · 03-20-2003, 04:36 AM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

<blockquote>Quote:<hr />
Actually it's not by the book...

The Book

Mid point between the shoulders and the belt and the beneath the hollow of the knee cap.

<hr /></blockquote>
Well, that's about what they have in WSB. I thought, though, that it was supposed to be judged from a "normal" batting stance, not just from when the batter is ready to hit the ball. Since this is the case, I would go up there looking like Bagwell or Vaughn.

**Muskrat** · 03-20-2003, 05:13 AM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

Y'know, I just thought of something. Could it be that the strike zone is correct for someone who is standing erect and upright? Then, when they assume their particular stance, the top of the zone can appear too high (rarely too low). Just a thought. Maybe I'm not as much of a baseball 'nut' as some of you, but this really appears to be a very minor issue (at least to me).

**Muskrat** · 03-20-2003, 05:13 AM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

Y'know, I just thought of something. Could it be that the strike zone is correct for someone who is standing erect and upright? Then, when they assume their particular stance, the top of the zone can appear too high (rarely too low). Just a thought. Maybe I'm not as much of a baseball 'nut' as some of you, but this really appears to be a very minor issue (at least to me).

**snowmizer** · 03-20-2003, 01:27 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

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Y'know, I just thought of something. Could it be that the strike zone is correct for someone who is standing erect and upright? Then, when they assume their particular stance, the top of the zone can appear too high (rarely too low). Just a thought. Maybe I'm not as much of a baseball 'nut' as some of you, but this really appears to be a very minor issue (at least to me).

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As I explained last week in a defense of ASB's perfect (to me) strike zone, the upper and lower limits are typically set by a player's position during his swing.

Thus, you could have two players preparing in the batter's box with Jeff Bagwell's crouch. If one player straightens up to swing, but the other stays squatting for his, you'd end up with two vastly different strike zones.

The player that straightens up is obviously much more susceptible to 'high strikes' being called. If he takes all the way on 3-0, staying in his original stance the whole time, a pitch that crosses at his letters could easily be in the strike zone.

Whether it's actually called depends on the willingness of the umpire to take the heat.

**snowmizer** · 03-20-2003, 01:27 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

<blockquote>Quote:<hr />
Y'know, I just thought of something. Could it be that the strike zone is correct for someone who is standing erect and upright? Then, when they assume their particular stance, the top of the zone can appear too high (rarely too low). Just a thought. Maybe I'm not as much of a baseball 'nut' as some of you, but this really appears to be a very minor issue (at least to me).

<hr /></blockquote>

As I explained last week in a defense of ASB's perfect (to me) strike zone, the upper and lower limits are typically set by a player's position during his swing.

Thus, you could have two players preparing in the batter's box with Jeff Bagwell's crouch. If one player straightens up to swing, but the other stays squatting for his, you'd end up with two vastly different strike zones.

The player that straightens up is obviously much more susceptible to 'high strikes' being called. If he takes all the way on 3-0, staying in his original stance the whole time, a pitch that crosses at his letters could easily be in the strike zone.

Whether it's actually called depends on the willingness of the umpire to take the heat.

**Dodger** · 03-20-2003, 04:23 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

I think a great solution to the strike zone debate would be for WSB 2004 to have an option to play with either this year's strike zone or a slightly smaller one (that eliminates high strikes) implemented in the off-season by Blue Shift. That way, everyone could be happy.

**Dodger** · 03-20-2003, 04:23 PM

Re: Strike Zone is horrendously off

I think a great solution to the strike zone debate would be for WSB 2004 to have an option to play with either this year's strike zone or a slightly smaller one (that eliminates high strikes) implemented in the off-season by Blue Shift. That way, everyone could be happy.

Strike Zone is horrendously off

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