What is the resource for pitcher velocities used by SCEA?

[N51_rob]

I am just wondering what is the resource that SCEA used when they are creating pitch speeds for pitchers. I am asking because I know that some pitchers have off-speed stuff that is much slower in the game than what they throw. Two of the biggest culprits of this that I have faced so far are James McDonald and Vance Worley.

I am playing against the Phillies so I have Worley's stuff in front of me, but his Change has a speed in game of 78, while fangraphs show its average being 84.2, Curve 70 in game, fangraphs 76.2 for example. McDonald is another guy who has his change-up way slower than what he actually throws. I am just wondering if any of our community day guys or anyone for that matter know where SCEA gets their velocities? Thanks in advance.

[nomo17k]

It's been "implied" that Pitch/fx is their source of info. Look for Russell@SCEA's post in response to Jgainsay's complaint:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...n-updated.html

[Jgainsey]

Thin air.

[N51_rob]

Nomo, I appreciate the link, but Russel made one passing comment. It seems like they have started to use pitch f/x, which is good, but makes me wonder how effectively. Given all the speculation and little info in that thread it seems like Jgainsey may be right...

[ryan36]

You're probably seeing a difference between "Real life" and "fun"... there IS less differential IMO IRL , but - I can't tell 4 miles an hour in this game, I'd just groundout to short all day. I'd hate it.

[N51_rob]

Quote: Originally Posted by ryan36

You're probably seeing a difference between "Real life" and "fun"... there IS less differential IMO IRL , but - I can't tell 4 miles an hour in this game, I'd just groundout to short all day. I'd hate it.

I think you are correct, to a degree, when a guy throws in the mid to high 90's like McDonald and then his change is in the high 70's vise the mid 80's it is almost impossible to square up, where his real one isn't nearly as hard. I'm more looking for their resource so that when I fire up a game, I have something to look at to get an idea where he will be, I cited fan graphs because i always have that site up this time of year looking at numbers and what not.

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by ryan36

You're probably seeing a difference between "Real life" and "fun"... there IS less differential IMO IRL , but - I can't tell 4 miles an hour in this game, I'd just groundout to short all day. I'd hate it.

But swinging through James McDonald's changeup is even worse though.

Funny thing is Bahnzo's Roster Tool I read was pretty good at using Pitch/fx data to rate pitches. Never actually had a chance to run it given I don't have easy access to Windows machine, but it looked like all the info was obtained off the web (fangraphs? don't exactly know). If that can be done, don't see why SCEA hasn't been doing that.

[Kevin_D]

I wish they'd fix pitch selections for pitchers... how does Brandon League still not have a sinker?