Mike Lowe MLB The Show '18 Sliders

[Mike Lowe]

Quote: Originally Posted by NolanRyansSnowmonkey

Yeah exactly i'm getting well over 2 per game. I may be misunderstanding you on the percentages. Doubles were between (somewhere like) between 18-22% of all hits in MLB with approximately 20% being league average. So basically 1 out of every 5 hits. And league average for Home Runs was around 15% of all hits (I may be a little bit off there). I probably completely misread what you said but I'm on a phone and my wife is rushing me lol. But anyway like you said its under 2 doubles per game for most teams. I'm hitting over 1 double out of 4 hits approximately (26%). And a lot of triples too but it just may be a weird rash of triples before I go on a long triple drought. Not sure exactly how to remedy it, just hoping it comes down over time. Other than this small item I'm seeing good numbers

Actually I misspoke in saying less than 10% of hits were XBH, and meant to say less than 10% of ABs.

On average, HRs and 2Bs are pretty close to the same, with 2Bs being a bit closer to 2 per game per team and HRs under 1.5 per game per team.

How many games have you played? Is it impacting both teams? Raising fielder speed would help you, but it raises it for both user and AI.

You could also lower solid hits.

[Mike Lowe]

Quote: Originally Posted by BigOscar

Hey Mike, great to see your sliders back this year, particularly the ones that don't directly affect individual hitting (as I'm just not as good a hitter as you). Getting those fielder, injury and computer pitching sliders right gets so much in place for me to find my own balance for the game. the amount of detail you go into in that video as well will be so helpful in finding my correct hitting sliders, so thanks a bunch! This is more of a general slider question, but applies to yours as you have separate sliders for simming to playing, but I'm dabbling with 30 team control for the first time this year and was wondering what that means for sliders? Can I set the other 29 teams on my 2nd profile to be on the simming sliders, while keeping my main team on my 1st profile with the in game sliders, or does it not work that way? (I'm a complete noob with 30 team control, I don't even know if I can have separate sliders for the 29 auto teams)

Yep you're understanding it perfectly. Just make sure that second profile has everything set to auto.

[Mike Lowe]

Quote: Originally Posted by GWPump23

Only one game & I’m digging the set! Gave up 3 1B’s & 8 2B’s (not a typo) Will play a few more games & report back... -GW-

Through 3 games in real life, the 0-3 Tigers lead MLB with an average of 7 2Bs while batting per game.

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mike Lowe

Actually I misspoke in saying less than 10% of hits were XBH, and meant to say less than 10% of ABs. On average, HRs and 2Bs are pretty close to the same, with 2Bs being a bit closer to 2 per game per team and HRs under 1.5 per game per team. How many games have you played? Is it impacting both teams? Raising fielder speed would help you, but it raises it for both user and AI. You could also lower solid hits.

I've played 15 or 17 games with these hitting sliders. (Human hitting and CPU pitching and runner speeds). I literally just started using your human pitching and CPU hitting sliders so I can't speak for whether its happening for both teams yet.

I'm going to give it a little more time. I had raised fielder speed for a few games but it took away hits between the infield and outfield. I may try it again if I need to.

They've come in interesting ways, some games 0 doubles, then the next game 4 doubles. In my last 8 games 54.7% of my hits are singles. MLB Average is around 67 or 68% I think. Before that it was even lower, so it's slowly getting better. My last 2 games I hit only 3 doubles out of 15 hits (20%). So maybe that will continue. I'm a fan of proper sample size and I'm going to give it some more games. Baseball is a funny game.

[bjthomas121]

Can these be used for play now games?

[Mike Lowe]

Quote: Originally Posted by bjthomas121

Can these be used for play now games?

Yes, sir, they can.

[Charvalos]

I really liked your sliders last years and it will be the same, this year. For this year, I'll playing with the Pirates, directional hitting, meter pitching, HoF for both.

There is Opening Day :

Pittsburgh Pirates at Detroit Tigers
Mar 29, 2018	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pittsburgh (0-1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	4	8	0
Detroit (1-0)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	x	5	12	0
W: Jimenez (1-0) L: Feliz (0-1) S: Greene (1)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			PIT	DET
DET	3	Cabrera grounded to center. Martin scores. Machado advance to 2nd	0	1
PIT	7	Bell grounded out to Iglesias (6-3). Dickerson scores.	1	1
DET	8	Cabrera lined up to right for a single. Machado scores.	1	2
DET	8	Mahtook doubled to right. Cabrera scores. Castellanos scores.	1	4
DET	8	Martinez lined to left for a single. Mahtook scores	1	5
PIT	9	Rodriguez homered to left (431 feet). Polanco scores. Freese scores.	4	5

Pittsburgh Pirates
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Harrison, 2B	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Frazier, SS	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250
Marte, CF	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250
Dickerson, LF	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	.333
Bell, DH	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000
Polanco, RF	4	1	1	0	0	2	0	.250
Freese, 3B	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	.333
Rodriguez, 1B	4	1	3	3	0	1	1	.750
Cervelli, C	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
TEAM TOTALS	33	4	8	4	3	6	1
BATTING: 2B: Dickerson (1) 3B: Marte (1) HR: Rodriguez (1) RBI: Bell (1), Rodriguez (3) GIDP: Bell
BASERUNNING: SB: Polanco (1) CS: Rodriguez (1)

Detroit Tigers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Iglesias, SS	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Machado, 2B	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	.500
Cabrera, 1B	4	1	3	2	0	0	0	.750
Castellanos, RF	4	1	1	0	0	2	0	.250
Mahtook, LF	3	1	2	2	1	0	0	.667
Martinez, DH	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	.250
Candelario, 3B	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	.500
McCann, C	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Martin, CF	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	.333
TEAM TOTALS	34	5	12	5	1	5	0
BATTING: 2B: Mahtook 2 (2), Machado (1) RBI: Cabrera 2 (2), Martinez (1), Mahtook 2 (2) HBP: Martin GIDP: Iglesias, McCann

Pittsburgh Pirates
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Taillon	6.0	5	1	1	1	5	0	1.50
Feliz	1.0	4	3	3	0	0	0	27.00
Brault	1.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	9.00
TEAM TOTALS	8.0	12	5	5	1	5	0
PITCHING: WP: Taillon (1)

Detroit Tigers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Fulmer	7.2	6	1	1	2	4	0	1.17
Jimenez	1.0	1	2	2	1	1	0	18.00
Greene	0.1	1	1	1	0	1	1	27.00
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	8	4	4	3	6	1
PITCHING: WP: Fulmer (1)

Well, the Tigers won the battle of the bullpens and it was a match where the Pirates was unlucky, I would say. 3 or 4 times, we hit the ball well but not enough to score a HR, the outfielders catching the ball at the warning track. But, it was a really good match to play.

[mlawrence99]

Hi Mike

Thank you I much for doing these.

I’ve downloaded them from the vault and the human starter stamina is set to 9. The human reliever stamina is also set to 0.

In your video and post you’ve put these at both at 5. Am I ok to leave these as they are or should I change them both to 5?