Aaron Judge

[schreck]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Nope, not likely now. Congratulations to Aaron Judge for setting the record for home runs by a rookie with his 50th blast today. He has come back with a bang in September, after swooning in July and August.

And that swoon is looking more and more likely to have been the result of a nagging shoulder injury he was playing through. No saying he's an all-time, but the guy is having as good or better season as any other position player this year by WAR, WRC+, etc.

If he's able to make adjustments like Stanton and Bryant have to cut back a bit on his K's, and stays healthy, he could be special. No way to know, but that's the fun of it all.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

I predict Judge will end up hitting .268/.383/.589 with 47 HR this year.

You were looking good for a while there, Markus, but his September surge destroyed your prediction.

[x McLovin x]

Will there be any future ratings updates to OOTP 18, specifically any which would include an update to Judge's ratings? I've run multiple sims spanning 10+ years using the latest update and he seems to always hover around .250/.330/.470. I think we can all agree that this isn't Judge's true talent level. While I would love to make him a lifetime Yankee in my playthroughs, I feel obligated to trade him given the disconnect between reality and his in-game performance.

Also, it's very hard to extend him in general due to his High Greed personality trait. Just curious - are these personality traits randomly assigned or somewhat based off reality? Anecdotally, I feel like more often than not, I notice that the in-game personality traits tend to mirror the common public perceptions of the players. If this is the case, seems Judge's traits are in need of fine-tuning.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by x McLovin x

Will there be any future ratings updates to OOTP 18, specifically any which would include an update to Judge's ratings? I've run multiple sims spanning 10+ years using the latest update and he seems to always hover around .250/.330/.470. I think we can all agree that this isn't Judge's true talent level. While I would love to make him a lifetime Yankee in my playthroughs, I feel obligated to trade him given the disconnect between reality and his in-game performance.

Also, it's very hard to extend him in general due to his High Greed personality trait. Just curious - are these personality traits randomly assigned or somewhat based off reality? Anecdotally, I feel like more often than not, I notice that the in-game personality traits tend to mirror the common public perceptions of the players. If this is the case, seems Judge's traits are in need of fine-tuning.

This is one reason why I am glad that I don't play OOTPB with real players. I'd be driving myself crazy tweaking ratings. Especially if I saw somebody like AJ (so far) rated with High Greed.

To answer your questions, as far as I can recall from reading here, Judge's baseball ratings will likely go up with the next version of OOTPB but his personality rating is random. The designers don't meddle with that and I believe most reality-simulating game players have personalities turned off for that reason. Correct me if I am wrong.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by itsmb8

Nobody would have even heard of his name before. People would bring up last season and say his ratings should probably be 40/55. I mean, the Brewers are in first place, nine games above .500, and people act like they are 4th in the NL Central at 40-51 instead of 51-40.

are the brewers still in the MLB?

at least your river doesn't light on fire, randomly.... cleveland! LoL but milwaukee does have a problem with their water filtration system... i guess it doesn't filter out the hormones and such that are evacuated after use of things like birth control... milwaukee-ians are drinking female hormones everyday! among other thigns... ( and not actually localized to milwaukee... a dirty little secret all over, if you have city water you likely have the same problem(s))

[ohiodevil]

Originally Posted by NoOne

at least your river doesn't light on fire, randomly.... cleveland!

Spoken like someone that has not been to Cleveland in the last 10 to 15 years......the river fire happened almost 50 years ago......

[diesel230]

In my league running since 2015, i run the Yankees. I dealt Judge and Severino in a package to the Marlins. He made his mlb debut in 2017 for Miami. He won rookie of the month in April and June. He was having a nice lil rookie season (nothing close to real life) when a he took a fastball to the head and retired due to concussion.

I don't know if its since been "fixed", but I've mentioned in the past it seems a little unrealistic that a player gets injured, says its career ending, gets released and retires within a couple days of the injury. Usually its played out longer irl.

Do players ever come back from retirement "in game", not thru commish mode and manually un-retiring?

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by diesel230

In my league running since 2015, i run the Yankees. I dealt Judge and Severino in a package to the Marlins. He made his mlb debut in 2017 for Miami. He won rookie of the month in April and June. He was having a nice lil rookie season (nothing close to real life) when a he took a fastball to the head and retired due to concussion.

I don't know if its since been "fixed", but I've mentioned in the past it seems a little unrealistic that a player gets injured, says its career ending, gets released and retires within a couple days of the injury. Usually its played out longer irl.

Do players have come back from retirement "in game", not thru commish mode and manually un-retiring?

OMG! Your first paragraph gave me goosebumps, twice!

Yes, I still think that is the case about CEI, that it's resolved a bit too quickly. They improve handling of injuries in this game from time to time and maybe that will be on the list next.

No, I have never seen anybody come back from retirement as part of normal gameplay.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by ohiodevil

Spoken like someone that has not been to Cleveland in the last 10 to 15 years......the river fire happened almost 50 years ago......

that's an argument for its cleanliness

"our river hasn't lit on fire in decades!" -- that's hilarious to think about... in a sad, sad way.

Kalamazoo can say that too (possibly more recently than cleveland, lol) i lived there for 10 years...

if you eat fish out of the kalamazoo river, it should only be because you hate your unborn future children and want them to have some sort of disability or be just plain dumber than they could have been



it's a good thing the US just slashed the EPA's budget by 40% and instated a hiring freeze... give it time. these rivers will combust again. too much money on 'their' side.

@CEI stuff:

delayed injury option? not sure if it even comes into play here, but worth a look, if that sort of thing rubs you the wrong way.

[ohiodevil]

Originally Posted by NoOne

that's an argument for its cleanliness

"our river hasn't lit on fire in decades!" -- that's hilarious to think about... in a sad, sad way.

When you say it that way it sure does