wild pitches

lechejuan525 · 07-14-2011, 05:52 AM

I have played 5 games and its ridiculous that amount of passed balls & wild pitches 2 per game is anybody else having this issue. Also while I'm complaining why doesn't the runner score from second with 2 outs doesn't make any sense.

beorn · 07-14-2011, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by lechejuan525

I have played 5 games and its ridiculous that amount of passed balls & wild pitches 2 per game is anybody else having this issue. Also while I'm complaining why doesn't the runner score from second with 2 outs doesn't make any sense.

If you do a custom view of pitchers' stats, you can see wild pitches. I think that you will find that, overall, the results are not unreasonable. However, some pitchers are surprisingly prone to this problem -- and this is a good reason to avoid them... By the way, you can adjust these sorts of things in game setup (I think it is under the "strategy" tab), if you want to.

I agree (and have previously posted) that runners do not score frequently enough from second base. The issue is somewhat clouded by the fact that sometimes you get the choice to try to score and sometimes there is not decision to be made. However, just the percentage of time that the runner holds up with no decision offered seems to be to be far too high a frequency... And, as you say, this seems even less realistic when there are two outs.

AESP_pres · 07-14-2011, 01:54 PM

Just two by game

Of course I start to play 19th century again, so in my world this is sure not a lot

cblacker · 07-14-2011, 06:45 PM

As someone above me said, you can control the number of Wild Pitches in your league with a modifier in the "Strategy" section of the "League Options and Rules." It may be that yours got set too high somehow.

As far as runners not scoring from second with two outs, I have noticed this as well. I even made a thread when I had a fast runner (Chone Figgins) get thrown out at the plate when he was trying to score from second after he had been running on the pitch (3-2 count, 2 outs). However, it's one thing to say that it seems that runners aren't scoring enough with two outs, but it's another to back this up with actual data. Do runners on 2nd with two outs score with less frequency in OOTP than they do in real life MLB? This is not an easy question to answer. You could probably find some MLB data if you dig around on the Internet, but getting OOTP data would be quite tedious. You'd have to sift through hundreds of game logs and/or take careful notes as you are playing out your games.

07-14-2011, 05:52 AM	#1
lechejuan525 Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 18	wild pitches I have played 5 games and its ridiculous that amount of passed balls & wild pitches 2 per game is anybody else having this issue. Also while I'm complaining why doesn't the runner score from second with 2 outs doesn't make any sense.

07-14-2011, 01:54 PM	#3
AESP_pres Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Province of Quebec Posts: 4,233	Just two by game Of course I start to play 19th century again, so in my world this is sure not a lot __________________ Complete set of the FGs I have updated for the pack 1871 to 1970 Updated FGs who aren't in the pack yet. 1961 to 1970 1971 to 1980

07-14-2011, 06:45 PM	#4
cblacker Major Leagues Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 324	As someone above me said, you can control the number of Wild Pitches in your league with a modifier in the "Strategy" section of the "League Options and Rules." It may be that yours got set too high somehow. As far as runners not scoring from second with two outs, I have noticed this as well. I even made a thread when I had a fast runner (Chone Figgins) get thrown out at the plate when he was trying to score from second after he had been running on the pitch (3-2 count, 2 outs). However, it's one thing to say that it seems that runners aren't scoring enough with two outs, but it's another to back this up with actual data. Do runners on 2nd with two outs score with less frequency in OOTP than they do in real life MLB? This is not an easy question to answer. You could probably find some MLB data if you dig around on the Internet, but getting OOTP data would be quite tedious. You'd have to sift through hundreds of game logs and/or take careful notes as you are playing out your games.