Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year
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I don’t even know where to begin.
So they lower pitch speeds this year and to couple with that, pitches with perfect input consistently miss on the extreme edges of the PAR region. That’s a joke.
To make it even worse? Foul tips are absolutely pathetic. You can throw pitches out of the zone and instead of your opponent swinging and missing, they essentially get a do over time and time again. Another joke
Additionally, pitches that split the edge of the zone are called balls way too much. How [censored] pathetic is it that they can’t program perfect umpire accuracy. If a pitch splits the zone, and the larger half of the ball is in the zone, HOW IS THAT A BALL
Look at the ERAs on the Ranked leaderboards, they’ve never been this high. That’s a sign of how pathetic pitching is this year
Incredible how frustratingly hard it is to pitch this year. I pray they fix it. The outer PCI needs to be removed…what tf is that supposed to even represent?
There needs to be more swing and miss and the foul tips/balls are yet again a joke this year.
Overall, pitching is just terrible. It’s like they’re afraid to have players strike out. Lord forbid they have to learn some plate discipline. Nope, can’t have that. Let’s bail people out with do-over foul tips
No such thing as dotting pitches when perfect input pitches miss on the extreme edges of the PAR. Pitching is such a joke
Rant over
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@Pergo said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
What type of pitching do you use? I'm a pure analog guy and haven't noticed these issues.
Pinpoint
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@doobiebross66-72 said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
@Pergo said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
What type of pitching do you use? I'm a pure analog guy and haven't noticed these issues.
Pinpoint
Ah interesting, yeah can't speak to that then. I tried pinpoint when it first came out and could never get it down so just stuck with analog.
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@Pergo said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
@doobiebross66-72 said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
@Pergo said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
What type of pitching do you use? I'm a pure analog guy and haven't noticed these issues.
Pinpoint
Ah interesting, yeah can't speak to that then. I tried pinpoint when it first came out and could never get it down so just stuck with analog.
I’m able to get perfect releases the majority of the time after practicing and learning the pitch patterns
But perfect input on pinpoint leads to the pitch missing on the extreme edges of the PAR region WAY too much
I know that pitchers don’t dot every single pitch. The control and BB/9 attributes has to count for something yes. But it’s just bad how random pitching is in terms of where your pitch ends up this year
Hitting is very easy but I dread pitching and pitching used to be my strong suit every year
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Glad to see you posted this whiney rant both here and Reddit. Got to make sure everyone saw the tears.
You are, by your own admission (flawless BR and 24-3 ranked record) a top 1% player. Guess what, if SDs makes the game for the top 1%, they will go out of business. And yes, they are in fact a for profit business, not some public good.
The median player in DD is not very good, plays for fun, and has no desire to “git gud”. That’s the base SDs needs to game design for if they want to maximize profits.
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Once u get to 600+ stop trying to dot all the time. These guys are better at hitting and predicting how you're trying to pitch them.
When u don't get the calls, it forces u to throw strikes.
Try making good pitches around the zone to pitch to contact. Pitching is not as good and not as accurate as in the past. It sucks -
@GradektheBard said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
Glad to see you posted this whiney rant both here and Reddit. Got to make sure everyone saw the tears.
You are, by your own admission (flawless BR and 24-3 ranked record) a top 1% player. Guess what, if SDs makes the game for the top 1%, they will go out of business. And yes, they are in fact a for profit business, not some public good.
The median player in DD is not very good, plays for fun, and has no desire to “git gud”. That’s the base SDs needs to game design for if they want to maximize profits.
Yup, had to rant and I feel better for it. Glad you saw my post twice
And I agree that SDS has to make a game that is playable and enjoyable by their largest player base
But despite that, it doesn’t justify how bad pitching is this year
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@doobiebross66-72 it probably does justify it though, as I presume they have a ton of data that goes into gameplay decisions.
Let’s be honest here, if they made every very early swing vs a curve in the dirt a swing+miss, they’d probably lose 50% of their customers in a week. -
@doobiebross66-72 I lost a game 28-26 last night. Granted my opponent picked Capital Lange and it was on all star, but over 50 runs on 60 hits. It's impossible to pitch.
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@GradektheBard said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
Glad to see you posted this whiney rant both here and Reddit. Got to make sure everyone saw the tears.
You are, by your own admission (flawless BR and 24-3 ranked record) a top 1% player. Guess what, if SDs makes the game for the top 1%, they will go out of business. And yes, they are in fact a for profit business, not some public good.
The median player in DD is not very good, plays for fun, and has no desire to “git gud”. That’s the base SDs needs to game design for if they want to maximize profits.
the thing here, Ranked play is not meant to be "casual" ranked should be designed for better player wins, its not real life. The foul balls are absolutely brutal this year.
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I’ve seen some high scoring games, but they aren’t typical for the average player. Here are my last 8 BR games: 1-0 W, 5-4 L, 3-2 W, 5-1 W, 6-1 W, 1-0 L, 2-0 W, and 1-0 L. Not exactly high scoring
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@chucky97___ the better player does win though. If that wasn’t the case, we wouldn’t see the same names at the top of the leaderboards/going flawless multiple times/etc.
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@GradektheBard I should rephrase, not win but that shouldn't happen, the comeback logic/DDA in this years game so real. It's almost a guaranteed home run after the 6th straight foul ball. Bad swings need to be punished,I dont care if its a fluke single or hit, but the constant foul balls is what drives me up a wall. It just bails out bad to the median players. Their is no approach for some players, just step up to the plate and swing, in a ranked setting that shouldn't be rewarded.
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@GradektheBard I played 3 games last night, I scored 10, 26, and 18. I won one of those games, Pinpoint is brutal.
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@GradektheBard said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
@doobiebross66-72 it probably does justify it though, as I presume they have a ton of data that goes into gameplay decisions.
Let’s be honest here, if they made every very early swing vs a curve in the dirt a swing+miss, they’d probably lose 50% of their customers in a week.Doubt the percentage is nearly that high
And I agree, I’m sure they do make plenty of their gameplay design decisions based on empirical data
Still doesn’t justify that pitching is terrible this year
When have ERAs ever been as high as they are now? Maybe in 18? And we all know how the community viewed 18
I understand where you’re coming from and you’re generally a logical, level headed poster here. But there’s no defending how bad pitching is this year
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@chucky97___ said in Pitching is Abysmally Bad This Year:
@doobiebross66-72 I lost a game 28-26 last night. Granted my opponent picked Capital Lange and it was on all star, but over 50 runs on 60 hits. It's impossible to pitch.
Agree. It’s dreadfully bad.
My last ranked game, I threw a 4SFB with Skenes to the new Bryce Harper
I started the pitch outside of the zone. The right edge of the ball barely grazing the outside part of the strike zone
Perfect input using pinpoint and the pitch ends up with the right side of the ball inside the middle square of the strike zone
That is indefensible
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This is one reason why I don't understand the top players prefer aeenado boost over buxton. Vision is not that important and I reached ws on my main account fairly easily. I still strike out on avg like 5-8 times on hof and legend. I guess I'd cut down those k's by half if I played with the arenafo boost. However, I'd be gimped with 7 out of 9 slow players and likely would give up more runs with the cost of a few xbh from slow guys.
Hitting is much easier and normally I wouldn't think of starting 4 guys with 50's vision. (I do the tier 2 buxton boost on hof with 4 guys starting, 4 guys on the bench) -
In my thread on Reddit, someone tracked how many foul tips/balls they gave up on a Ranked HOF game
63
Absolutely pathetic
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@chucky97___
Too many foul balls are basically due to a combination of things such as playing on All-Star (and below) and Pitchers having lower K/9's at this point in the game cycle... Once the Pitcher cards improve, this issue should improve. They obviously did not optimize their gameplay for AS, as this game plays better on HOF.
