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OOTP 19 - General Discussions Everything about the 2018 version of Out of the Park Baseball - officially licensed by MLB.com and the MLBPA. |
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01-27-2018, 02:51 PM | #1 |
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Too Many Great Plays- Too Many Infield Hits - in OOTP18
Just my observation from playing out a lot of games in OOTPB:
Far too many very good-to-great defensive plays. I get the feeling that OOTP is hyping it up to make the game more exciting. "Tell me it ain't so, Lukas Berger" I keep score every time I go to a major league or minor league game and on my scorecard I indicate outstanding plays... very good with a single asterisk (*)... and two asterisks (**) for excellent or remarkable plays. Most of the time I only have 1 or 2 standout plays a game on my scorecard. Not keeping scientific records, but there are far good many great plays in OOTP18. Please check your conditional controls like you do in the PBP... you should be able to limit how often great plays occur. Last edited by Eugene Church; 01-27-2018 at 05:34 PM. Reason: Update the Thread Heading |
01-27-2018, 02:54 PM | #2 |
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By great do you mostly mean diving plays? If so, I think that's true.
I know Matt tried to reduce the frequency of diving plays a bit in some of the later patches last year and I'm pretty sure he's done more work on that for OOTP19. So it should be better this year.
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01-27-2018, 03:25 PM | #3 | |
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Diving plays would be included... but also too many great plays, both infield and outfield. Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to our wonderful game. It's people like you, Matt and many others that make it so great. I really appreciate all of you ! Last edited by Eugene Church; 01-27-2018 at 03:27 PM. |
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01-27-2018, 03:33 PM | #4 |
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You need to look at the number of infield hits in the game, too.
Again, I think they happen far more in OOTP18 than in real life. The PBP description of infield hits needs some work... many times you don't know why it was an infield hit... no reason is given in the PBP. If it in the hole... that understandable... but it should indicate why it is an infield hit. Many time I see things like this occur: " ball hit hard to shortstop... Vizquel up with it... throws to first... not in time... infield hit." If it was a hard hit ball, the runner should have been out. Last edited by Eugene Church; 01-27-2018 at 05:35 PM. |
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01-27-2018, 03:37 PM | #6 | |
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01-27-2018, 03:40 PM | #7 | |
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Just want to thank you for all your great work and dedication to the PBP... it's far better since you have been involved in it. Thanks for all you do. Much appreciate it. |
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01-27-2018, 03:59 PM | #8 |
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We have looked a lot at defensive performance, so hopefully we have found the right number of great plays now.
As per some of the other data, the number of infield hits I believe should be correct with real life, however it's still a challenge to get the "right" infield hits (ie. slow hits in front, or hard hits to the hole, etc...) We can probably expand the PBP for that, and we're certainly always working on the 3D to make sure you don't have weird cases of the player quickly running to get the ball and then simply holding on to it or lobbing a superbly slow throw to first. |
01-27-2018, 05:16 PM | #9 |
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A couple of things in PBP that I notice:
1-Line drives are almost always caught by an infielder. You can often know it's an out just by how the pbp starts. 2-Outfield dives, running into wall, etc and fielder hardly ever loses the ball. Would like to see the ball pop out of the glove more frequently when the OF hits the ground or wall. |
01-27-2018, 05:23 PM | #10 | |
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2- I know I've tried to create more drops. Hard to know how often it happens now, without some hard data. Something to look at, for sure. |
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01-27-2018, 05:26 PM | #11 | |
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Thanks for the quick response and replies. |
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01-27-2018, 05:57 PM | #12 | |
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01-27-2018, 10:28 PM | #13 |
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I hope that a number of the diving catches are ruled to be trapped balls and the batter is credited with a base hit.
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01-27-2018, 11:23 PM | #14 |
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I remember one previous version of OOTP (14? 15?) had that happen nearly constantly for the first couple of patches. Then it got toned down and maybe too far.
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01-28-2018, 07:36 PM | #16 |
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Agreed. If Matt moves this hardcoded text to the (editable) text DB, we'll be in business.
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01-28-2018, 07:46 PM | #17 |
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Excellent dialogue here, those of us who play out all games will really benefit.
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01-28-2018, 07:47 PM | #18 |
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Not only do there seem to be too many line outs to infield positions, but it seems the pbp almost always follows with “...incredible catch by...” the infielder.
Hopefully we can sort that out as well. |
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