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OOTP 20 - General Discussions Everything about the newest version of Out of the Park Baseball - officially licensed by MLB.com and the MLBPA. |
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01-24-2020, 11:11 PM | #1 |
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Outfield Shift in the Wrong Direction?
I've noticed this really ever since I started playing OOTP. Not sure if it's a bug or a visual glitch.
Oftentimes when a batter comes to the plate, the outfield will shift in the "wrong" direction. I.E. for a RHB, they'll shift more towards right field instead of left field. I've attached a picture to show what I mean. Now, I checked Jack Clark and he's a spray hitter. But shouldn't that just put the outfield in a more neutral position? Or do some spray hitters actually hit the opposite way more often? Unfortunately I haven't checked a hitter's tendencies during an outfield shift until just this time with Clark. I have to say I don't think I've never seen the outfield shift in the "right" direction before, so I don't know what's going on here. I have that kind of stuff set to the AI, and only do substitutions myself. |
01-25-2020, 06:46 AM | #2 |
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What confuses me is the batters widget where it says, GB Type. At one time I thought that meant the batters tendency and use to shift my outfielders accordingly but then in a post I was told it was just for their infield ground balls, not fly balls or hits to the outfield.
I realize that does not really answer you question but you do have a valid question IMO. |
01-25-2020, 12:09 PM | #3 |
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Interesting. I set fielding manually but I always check the batter's spray chart. Sometimes a batter will hit a lot of ground balls to the pull side, but his fly balls will sometimes trend more to the opposite side. That might be a case for shifting the OF to play the batter 'away'.
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01-25-2020, 12:12 PM | #4 |
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Yea, this is actually a pretty typical real-life defensive setup these days. Players tend to pull the ball on the ground, but when they hit it in the air use all fields or even have reverse-pull data. This is partially why MLB players have tried to start hitting it in the air more...they can naturally use more of the field.
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01-25-2020, 12:13 PM | #5 |
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01-25-2020, 12:39 PM | #6 | |
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Came to say what Rain King already said
There's also this https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-astr...utfield-shift/ Quote:
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01-25-2020, 01:51 PM | #7 |
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Yeah, players tend to naturally have a slight opposite field approach to FB, and then some players are worse than others according to their tendencies
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01-25-2020, 02:09 PM | #8 |
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I love when OOTP devs can answer something that on its face may appear to be quite wrong, yet is shown to model closely to what we see in real life.
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01-25-2020, 03:18 PM | #9 |
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01-25-2020, 10:50 PM | #10 |
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Interesting, I learned something new about baseball today. Thanks for the info in this thread.
By the way this makes some sense given that my testing has shown defense in RF is way way way more important than LF in OOTP. I thought it might have been solely due to the arm requirement, but if RHB are hitting more flyballs out there, then it starts to make more sense. |
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