"Number of pitches thrown" when choosing which reliever to send in

[Antonin]

One thing I've always wished for is, when you are playing out a game and view your lineup in order to replace your starter, the pop-up would show how many pitches the reliever threw yesterday, 2 days ago, etc. As it is, it shows his pitching ratings and his stats for the last couple years. You have to click on his name to see how many pitches he's thrown recently and how tired he is.

This is not a big deal--just a "quality of life" type feature that I hope will someday make it into OOTP.

[Swiffle]

That information is show in different spots as well. Below the lineup widgit, the bullpen has the + icon that brings up the pitchers, and shows that information, either to warm them up if the warmup rule is turned on, or insert them into the game if the warmup rule is off. Personally, I use a customized view with pitcher stats on the main substitution screen, and I have reliever fatigue displayed as one of the columns so I can see what % they're at. That is found under Pitching Stats when customizing the view, and there are also options for starting pitcher fatigue, and pitches for today, 1 day ago, 2 days ago, etc.

I do think having player fatigue shown on the player's tooltip would also be helpful though.

[Antonin]

Thanks, but I must be misunderstanding something. Where is the lineup widget?

[Ataraxzy]

Originally Posted by Antonin

Thanks, but I must be misunderstanding something. Where is the lineup widget?

Button pointed to by blue arrow. Make sure you have the Lineups widget for the team you're managing visible during the game.

[Antonin]

After playing around with my current test save I think I understand what you guys are saying. Wouldn't I need to go to "configure screen" while in-game, then click "reset," and then choose which widgets to hide or view normally? And then resize them and move them around so I can see all of them on my in-game screen?

I see that there is a widget for the home team bullpen and one for the visitor's bullpen. The problem is that you will have to change which widget is shown, depending on whether you are playing at home or on the road. Maybe for those who have large computer monitors it's not a problem to have a lot of widgets open. But my screen is not that big. It's only 20 inches wide.

Back several versions ago I experimented with widgets, but they seemed like more trouble than they were worth. From that time I have always just accepted the default game day screen. When I want to make a substitution I just click the substitutions tab for my team.

It would be simpler if, when I hover the cursor over a pitcher, it showed his pitch count for the last 5 days instead of his ratings and stats for the season.

[kq76]

The thing about that popup bullpen window is I can never remember which side of the slashes is yesterday and which was the first day, both orders make sense to me somehow. I wish they'd give us some sort of indicator of which it was. The left side is the oldest, the right side is the most recent, but I always have to go to the Substitutions screen as I can't remember that.

[Antonin]

Aha! I noticed something else. The kind gentlemen above have been referring to the "modern 2D view." I have always used the "traditional 2D view," which does not show the lineup widget and the little button for "bullpen." I have to say I don't like the modern 2D view.

[Antonin]

Originally Posted by kq76

The thing about that popup bullpen window is I can never remember which side of the slashes is yesterday and which was the first day, both orders make sense to me somehow. I wish they'd give us some sort of indicator of which it was. The left side is the oldest, the right side is the most recent, but I always have to go to the Substitutions screen as I can't remember that.

While fiddling around with the "modern 2D view" I see that when you hold the cursor over the "pitches" line for a bullpen pitcher a popup gives you that information. For example, "30 pitches 3 days ago, 7 pitches 2 days ago." That's the information I want to see, but unfortunately for me I just don't like the "modern 2D view." I don't know what you would find using a 3D view. I have never liked 3D. I know lots of guys love it, but it just does not appeal to me.

[kq76]

Originally Posted by Antonin

While fiddling around with the "modern 2D view" I see that when you hold the cursor over the "pitches" line for a bullpen pitcher a popup gives you that information. For example, "30 pitches 3 days ago, 7 pitches 2 days ago." That's the information I want to see, but unfortunately for me I just don't like the "modern 2D view." I don't know what you would find using a 3D view. I have never liked 3D. I know lots of guys love it, but it just does not appeal to me.

Oh! Cool, thanks. So often I just don't notice mouseovers.

[Antonin]

One thing I *do* like about the "modern 2D view" is that the numbers and the text, at least at the top of the screen, are larger than in the "classic 2D view." Also, things look a bit more spread out. I'm in my late 60s, and my tired old eyes appreciate that bigger text.