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  • Aviator87AC
    Rookie
    • Oct 2012
    • 389

    #1

    "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

    Any idea what this symbol next to Jordan Patterson's name means? I've never seen it before and the in-game legend doesn't have it either!


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  • countryboy
    Growing pains
    • Sep 2003
    • 52630

    #2
    Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

    Top 50 prospect is what was said in the patch thread.
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    • ShowTyme15
      LADetermined
      • Jan 2004
      • 11858

      #3
      Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

      Originally posted by Aviator87AC
      Any idea what this symbol next to Jordan Patterson's name means? I've never seen it before and the in-game legend doesn't have it either!


      New Icon for the Top 50 Prospects most likely.

      EDIT: CB beat me to it.

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      • BlacknBlue
        Rookie
        • Dec 2015
        • 318

        #4
        Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

        Not a huge deal, but; Could they pick a more confusing and messy icon? What was wrong with the top 50 icon before? It was pretty obvious with the "50" being the focal point what the icon meant.

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        • Aviator87AC
          Rookie
          • Oct 2012
          • 389

          #5
          Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

          You'd think they would update the icon legend at least. "50" seemed pretty straight forward to me. I actually thought this had something to do with Patterson's walk-off double in the previous game.
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          • GlennN
            MVP
            • Oct 2003
            • 1930

            #6
            Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

            Huh, looks more like "Has overcome ED." Give him credit, the arrow is now pointing up!

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            • NolanRyansSnowmonkey
              MVP
              • Jun 2016
              • 1354

              #7
              Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

              Originally posted by Aviator87AC
              Any idea what this symbol next to Jordan Patterson's name means? I've never seen it before and the in-game legend doesn't have it either!


              I think it's like the Prince symbol. "The Player Fornerly Known as Jordan Patterson"

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              • BigOscar
                MVP
                • May 2016
                • 2971

                #8
                Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                The improvement to franchise mode that we'd all been begging for, probably the same focus group that asked for phases as the most important thing missing.

                The only, tiny amount of logic I can see for this is that there was previously more than 50 players with that icon, a lot of whom weren't on the top 50 list when you looked, so presumably one person complained about that so they changed the icon to this weird bat arrow thing to get rid of any confusion caused by the 50.

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                • Armor and Sword
                  The Lama
                  • Sep 2010
                  • 21551

                  #9
                  Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                  Not understanding the change. Top 50 was fine.

                  I donโ€™t get it.


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                  • Caulfield
                    Hall Of Fame
                    • Apr 2011
                    • 11043

                    #10
                    Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                    Originally posted by BigOscar
                    The only, tiny amount of logic I can see for this is that there was previously more than 50 players with that icon, a lot of whom weren't on the top 50 list when you looked, so presumably one person complained about that so they changed the icon to this weird bat arrow thing to get rid of any confusion caused by the 50.
                    I'm confused, what's the symbol for top pitching prospects, a bat?
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                    • a bit outside
                      Banned
                      • Jun 2017
                      • 187

                      #11
                      Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                      Originally posted by Armor and Sword
                      Not understanding the change. Top 50 was fine.

                      I donโ€™t get it.


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                      • Houston
                        MVP
                        • May 2003
                        • 4724

                        #12
                        Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                        If anything they should have changed it to Top 100 Icon.
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                        • BigOscar
                          MVP
                          • May 2016
                          • 2971

                          #13
                          Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                          Originally posted by Caulfield
                          I'm confused, what's the symbol for top pitching prospects, a bat?
                          Yup, pitchers in the top 100 get the same bat arrow icon. It is weird how you can mess up something so simple and irrelevant twice. First time they put a 50 on all top 100 prospect, then to fix it they put a bat on all top 100 hitting and pitching prospects.

                          The mind boggles as to how you manage that tbh, as Houston points out, switching it to a 100 would have been the obvious choice?

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                          • Adam_SDS
                            Rookie
                            • Jul 2016
                            • 80

                            #14
                            Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                            Hey guys, sorry for the confusion on this icon. I wanted to update/change the Top 50 icon for next year since the Franchise menu is called "Top Prospects" and there can be more than 50 as some of you have already mentioned. The symbol is just a take on the menu tile icon that we used in The Show 17, hence the ball/bat/arrow design.

                            Unfortunately the icon slipped into the patch without any of my other updates to the HELP menu symbols legend. I'll update the HELP menus for the next patch, which includes a few other new symbol descriptions/updates that had always been missing from the game.

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                            • Caulfield
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Apr 2011
                              • 11043

                              #15
                              Re: "Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

                              Originally posted by Adam_SDS
                              Hey guys, sorry for the confusion on this icon. I wanted to update/change the Top 50 icon for next year since the Franchise menu is called "Top Prospects" and there can be more than 50 as some of you have already mentioned. The symbol is just a take on the menu tile icon that we used in The Show 17, hence the ball/bat/arrow design.

                              Unfortunately the icon slipped into the patch without any of my other updates to the HELP menu symbols legend. I'll update the HELP menus for the next patch, which includes a few other new symbol descriptions/updates that had always been missing from the game.
                              Thanks! It isn't even a big deal, we just like to fuss about the minutiae lol
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