Justin Thomas

[Lisac]

Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

[BDKiiing]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisac

Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

Turn down CPU attendance. No top pro golfer plays every single tourney.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisac

Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

It's odd...in my first career mode season, it was Adam Scott who was unstoppable. He won 8 or 9 events, I won 5, and I think JT won 3. I still have attendance set to 90%, but increased round and event deviation to see how that worked, since someone on Reddit recommended that.

[bjenks]

Quote: Originally Posted by Lisac

Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

I've heard this from other people as well about Justin Thomas. Unfortunately for me it has been Patrick Reed and to a lesser extent, Tony Finau. It's honestly tilting to see Reed end up in the top 5 or better in every event. lol.

[jcas007]

I was wondering if anyone else had that problem, Justin Thomas is always on top I'm in my 1st season on career on the 10th tournament and Thomas has won 6 and been in the top 10 all the others

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[MrArlingtonBeach]

Quote: Originally Posted by jcas007

I was wondering if anyone else had that problem, Justin Thomas is always on top I'm in my 1st season on career on the 10th tournament and Thomas has won 6 and been in the top 10 all the others Sent from my SM-G950U using Operation Sports mobile app

Yes, it's clearly something in the game's AI scoring code that makes Justin Thomas (as well as some of the other pros) dominant in the game. For me, it was Adam Scott that was playing out-of-this-world, winning almost 10 events in the first season. But is seems like most folks have the coverboy play like a superhuman in their seasons.

I did adjust sliders a bit in career mode to help with this. The best I have come up in terms of slider settings is (playing on Pro swing difficulty with custom modifications, and all events are set to two rounds):

CPU Skill - 82%
CPU Event Skill Deviation - 25%
CPU Round Skill Deviation - 10%
CPU Attendance - 90%

[maconnolly]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

Yes, it's clearly something in the game's AI scoring code that makes Justin Thomas (as well as some of the other pros) dominant in the game. For me, it was Adam Scott that was playing out-of-this-world, winning almost 10 events in the first season. But is seems like most folks have the coverboy play like a superhuman in their seasons. I did adjust sliders a bit in career mode to help with this. The best I have come up in terms of slider settings is (playing on Pro swing difficulty with custom modifications, and all events are set to two rounds): CPU Skill - 82% CPU Event Skill Deviation - 25% CPU Round Skill Deviation - 10% CPU Attendance - 90%

It is, indeed, the game's base-code that ensure Justin Thomas enjoys a significant advantage over the field. I've done a bit of digging in the files - the 'skill level' attribute is a scalar value between 0 - 1 (to about 4-5 decimal places). Justin Thomas is around the 0.922 (if I recall) and the next one down is a relatively big gap. The rest of the field is then much more tightly grouped. Essentially, the CPU Event Skill Deviation and CPU Round Skill Deviation sliders are the in-game-UI way to fix this behaviour.

For those looking for a more robust 'fix', I have created a mod that adjusts the rosters in each of Q-School, the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour to ensure all of the real-life players (of each level) are competing against you in each, whilst also adjusting the skill levels for the PGA Tour to create a more competitive field.

I am going to create a thread in which I share the details, including a download link, once I am able to (need a post-count first).

[yanks126ws]

Snooping around on the PC files, Justin Thomas had the highest skill rating (.95). I was able to change the via modding though and add in missing pros like Tiger and Rory