"Bat arrow" symbol next to player's name

[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!

[countryboy]

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

Top 50 prospect is what was said in the patch thread.

[ShowTyme15]

Re: "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!

New Icon for the Top 50 Prospects most likely.

EDIT: CB beat me to it.

[BlacknBlue]

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.

[Aviator87AC]

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.

[GlennN]

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!

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

Re: "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!

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

[BigOscar]

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.

[Armor and Sword]

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Not understanding the change. Top 50 was fine.

I don’t get it.


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[Caulfield]

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

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?

[a bit outside]

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

Not understanding the change. Top 50 was fine.

I don’t get it.


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[Houston]

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

If anything they should have changed it to Top 100 Icon.

[BigOscar]

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

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?

[Adam_SDS]

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.

[Caulfield]

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.

Thanks! It isn't even a big deal, we just like to fuss about the minutiae lol
And if some of us were given a thousand dollar bill
we would say "who's gonna give us change for that?" 😁