[RchW]

Originally Posted by phightin

From the responses I heard I think RchW may be on to something. For whatever reason Hamels not only in my game, but in general doesn't perform at a high enough level for his high stats (even before I edited them in the game). When I examine the elite pitchers in my league, especially the elite strike-out guys like Hamels, they all seem to have 3 very dominant pitches and a bit of a higher velocity. Pretty much all elite starters in the game either are strikeout guys with 3 tremendous pitches or have average stuff with about 6-7 different ok pitches and decent movement and control ratings. The ratings for all his pitches there correctly reflect what they are in the engine. I gave him an elite changeup to reflect real life etc. For whatever reason and its just a guess but maybe the pitch combination that Hamels has do not work and he needs 3 dominant pitches instead of one very good pitch, one decent pitch, and two average pitches.

My plan is basically to raise Hamels cutter, and fastball to very good levels. He doesn't use his curve that much IRL and I already raised it a bit so Im not gonna touch it. I will have to probably lower his control and movement a bit so that his era doesnt become ridiculously low. I already raised his control I will lower it back down.

I diddled around with player creation and it seems clear that the statistical input for Hamels in your first screenshot is the source of the strange ratings. I created a player made sure that all ratings were set as your Hamels is. It produced an 18 14 18 result. However when I plugged in his 2012 stats it came out to 15 12 14. I still think that's a little high on the stuff but it is more believable.