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Dblbogey31 · 03-17-2005, 06:15 PM

As you can tell by my posting total, I don't post often. I've been a long time visitor of the boards here and have been playing since OOTP3. For the life of me I can't figure out this new engine at all. I'm running OOTP6.11 with Halofan's rosters.
I have just had it with horrible pitching. Starters and relievers with good control ratings are constantly hitting batters and throwing wild pitches. This week alone I have lost two games due to my stud closer hitting a batter to load the bases and then hit the very next batter to force in the winning run. I've never seen anything like this before. There always seems to be the 5 to 7 run inning lurking every couple of games. I play my games out in full and like to think I know what I'm doing pulling the strings. It's gotten to the point where I trade away very good relievers for other pitchers performing well only to have the newly acquired pitchers forget how to pitch on the flight to Atlanta.
I don't make this post to flame the game or anything like that. I'm just completely stuck. I've always performed very well on all previous versions of OOTP but this one I'm just horrible. I realize that I can use the old engine but I assume the old engine will not be available in future versions. I remember reading a post like this one a few months back but it didn't get much of a response. Is anyone else having trouble with pitching?
My starting rotation is Derke Lowe, Tim Hudson, Brad Radke, Brad Penny, and Tim Harvie. On July 1 Lowe and Hudson have ERA's over 5. Radke and Harvie are both over 4.50 and Penny is the lone bright spot with an ERA of 3.90 and a record of 13-2. Don't even get me started on the relievers. I'm not a "name" guy who figures 4 of these 5 starters are pretty good in real life therefore they must be good in the game. I do know that these guys are all rated very good and they don't perform that way. It's even worse with the relievers were I have a couple of relievers that are rated even better than the starters and they just get shelled. One of the biggest problems I have is lefty/lefty righty/righty matchups mean absolutely nothing apparently. I bring in a lefty who supposedly excells at shutting down lefties and he gets jacked up time again. You can't manage a game if you can't rely on even basic rules of thumb. After numerous efforts at franchises on 6.11 I'm about ready to just give up. I realize there will be a learning curve but it's has become rediculous. It's just not fun anymore. Thanks for letting me vent.

03-17-2005, 06:15 PM	#1
Dblbogey31 Bat Boy Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 11	At my wits end As you can tell by my posting total, I don't post often. I've been a long time visitor of the boards here and have been playing since OOTP3. For the life of me I can't figure out this new engine at all. I'm running OOTP6.11 with Halofan's rosters. I have just had it with horrible pitching. Starters and relievers with good control ratings are constantly hitting batters and throwing wild pitches. This week alone I have lost two games due to my stud closer hitting a batter to load the bases and then hit the very next batter to force in the winning run. I've never seen anything like this before. There always seems to be the 5 to 7 run inning lurking every couple of games. I play my games out in full and like to think I know what I'm doing pulling the strings. It's gotten to the point where I trade away very good relievers for other pitchers performing well only to have the newly acquired pitchers forget how to pitch on the flight to Atlanta. I don't make this post to flame the game or anything like that. I'm just completely stuck. I've always performed very well on all previous versions of OOTP but this one I'm just horrible. I realize that I can use the old engine but I assume the old engine will not be available in future versions. I remember reading a post like this one a few months back but it didn't get much of a response. Is anyone else having trouble with pitching? My starting rotation is Derke Lowe, Tim Hudson, Brad Radke, Brad Penny, and Tim Harvie. On July 1 Lowe and Hudson have ERA's over 5. Radke and Harvie are both over 4.50 and Penny is the lone bright spot with an ERA of 3.90 and a record of 13-2. Don't even get me started on the relievers. I'm not a "name" guy who figures 4 of these 5 starters are pretty good in real life therefore they must be good in the game. I do know that these guys are all rated very good and they don't perform that way. It's even worse with the relievers were I have a couple of relievers that are rated even better than the starters and they just get shelled. One of the biggest problems I have is lefty/lefty righty/righty matchups mean absolutely nothing apparently. I bring in a lefty who supposedly excells at shutting down lefties and he gets jacked up time again. You can't manage a game if you can't rely on even basic rules of thumb. After numerous efforts at franchises on 6.11 I'm about ready to just give up. I realize there will be a learning curve but it's has become rediculous. It's just not fun anymore. Thanks for letting me vent.