Pitcher's Primary Pitch Confidence & Entropy

[torpidbeaver]

Unless you almost never throw a ball? Unless your fastball (or whatever the primary pitch is for your particular pitcher) usage and strike% is over 80%? Unless you only use your primary pitch as your strikeout pitch?

The game constantly takes away confidence from your primary pitch, like it were a little boat constantly taking on water, and throwing strikes is your only means of bailing out that water. It's very frustrating to have pitched 4 or 5 innings of no-hit ball, with 8 strikeouts, with no walks, and with no major contact given to opposing batters, and to have your primary pitch be at 40-50% or less.

For instance, I'm currently in the Top of the 5th inning playing on All-Star level vs. the CPU. I've thrown my 4-seamer 30 out of 57 pitches. Of those 30 pitches, 70% have gone for strikes or outs. My pitcher's fastball confidence is sitting right around the halfway point. If I start throwing it for nothing but strikes, I'll probably start getting pounded.

I think this gets back to the original decision to decide that the only way a pitcher can get confidence is through throwing a strike. I still think that it should be a mix of execution and result; that a set-up pitch deliberately thrown out of the zone but with perfect or near perfect execution should, if not act as a confidence booster, at least be confidence-neutral.

Maybe it's being done to tamp down on dominant pitching? If that's the case, I guess I wish they'd figure out a better way. I admit that at All-Star difficulty, it seems that it's a little too easy to pitch dominant games. But there's currently very little incentive for me to pitch on higher levels.

[slthree]

Dude, get over yourself. Absolutely no reason to use the term you did, save to draw attention to yourself. You also misapplied "entropic". Maybe you could simply restate your issue

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[torpidbeaver]

Okay, I'll try restating:

Each pitcher's primary pitch confidence leaks constantly, and the rate at which it leaks is too damn high.

Is that more clear?

[BL8001]

I get what you are saying, hitting a spot you choose, including throwing a tight ball on the edge should equal no confidence lost when throwing balls on purpose.

But...

Entropic
Thermodynamics. (on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy.

[torpidbeaver]

I'm not the best with science words, so I just assumed that "entropic" was the adjective version of "entropy." My bad. Certainly no offense meant. It was just the word that came to mind.

But yeah, I only meant that the game constantly takes away confidence from your primary pitch, like it were a little boat constantly taking on water, and throwing strikes is your only means of bailing out that water.

Maybe that's a better way of putting it, since I don't want to put on airs like I'm trying to call attention to myself.

[BrianU]

Why you guys jumping down this guy's throat. He has a very good point. This gameplay system is not the most well done and i hope they look over and refine it soon like they've done with precision input and ball physics.

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[sandmac]

Quote: Originally Posted by torpidbeaver

Okay, I'll try restating: Each pitcher's primary pitch confidence leaks constantly, and the rate at which it leaks is too damn high. Is that more clear?

Yes, but the oxford comma was unnecessary.

JK

[BoNity]

At some point you just gotta play the game and not worry about stuff like that.
I just pitched a 1 hitter with the twins Mejia on HOF and im just a average player. So i dont really care about the confidence of my main pitch. i hardly even pay attention to it