The New Strike Zone Is A Disaster That Needs To Be Immediately Fixed!
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@Rhyno1986_XBL its more complicated than "just visual". There's no variance in strike zone now - it used to be that the same pitch could be a ball or strike (50-50 chamce they claimed). Now its always a strike if it clips zone.
I dont mind the new zone - but the change is more complicated than "the visual box is just smaller now"
Lol we want more accurate baseball. Okay here's the strike zone for real. We can't hit we trained ourselves to not swing at what should have been called a strike. It's unfair lol, you two are just mad you can't adapt. Oh and just for clarity the actually said any pitch 50 in the zone would always be a strike because of perfect umpire but it wasn't. It was a random rng coin flip where maybe it is maybe it isn't and people sitting g there getting walked because the just don't swing at actual strikes. Not you're mad because it is actually true strike zone and perfect umpiring.
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@GodShammGod2_XBL so the people who designed the game and made the change and said that it’s just a visual change are wrong? Lol
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@Rhyno1986_XBL they will not give you a hit on a high inside sinker that barely clips the side of the top of the zone. Anything that barely clips the zone is most likely an out. It’s mainly anything inside.
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I'm not saying the new zone is good or bad. It's just that it cant be only visual if you go from a system where there's a "50-50 rule" to a completely consistent zone (where a pitch in "Location A" is ALWAYS a strike, or ALWAYS a ball).
I'm not sure if this makes the zone effectively bigger or smaller - it clearly feels a bit bigger to me, with pitchers being able to regularly get calls they were not getting before.
I think box should disappear and people should get 2 ABS challenges - it doesn't feel very realistic to me for there to be a "perfect zone"
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@pbake12_PSN Not true.
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Lol we want more accurate baseball.
"We" didn't want this change. The competitive players, a minority, did.
I am still undecided if its a good or bad change, I am fairly neutral. I do know it makes me less likely to play online because I don't use pinpoint pitching so this just widens the gap that already existed.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS I was heavily against it but I have somewhat adjusted to it, there are still some pitches that are going to be guaranteed outs. But I finally going up in ranks.
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"We" didn't want this change. The competitive players, a minority, did.
I wanted the umpiring to match the "perfect" SDS said it allegedly was for years...not just change the visual size of the box. All that tells me is that they knew it wasn't perfect, and were avoiding making a change that publicly admitted it. Would have been easier to implement the ABS logic from offline...
I am still undecided if its a good or bad change, I am fairly neutral. I do know it makes me less likely to play online because I don't use pinpoint pitching so this just widens the gap that already existed.
For me, I think I'm adjusting to it slowly...gotta learn to live on the outside edges with the PCI now that the meta is to paint the black
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@sbchamps17_NSW nah they need to revert it back and just add the abs system even in real baseball they call balls strikes or strikes balls but they can just challenge this new strike zone is bad ngl
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@xVaughnn_PSN so the real-life actual strike zone is ‘bad’, in your opinion? do you actually like ball?
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Imma be real, if I see anyone still b***hing about the strike zone change in here I’m coming for their baseball fan cred cause what is this
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@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN ok, but the zone in the video game now doesn't feel like real ball...because its perfect. In real ball, lots of balls are called strikes (and vice versa) - and this is only partly corrected by the ABS system. I dont mind this new zone, but I dont think it feels more "real" - they need to allow for ump mistakes and challenges to do that
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Does the new strike zone combat the cheaters in the game?
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@Rubbaneck34_XBL no not at all if anything gives them a bigger advantage as hitting is harder for the average person now.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN That's crazy!
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@rubicante23_PSN I wouldn’t mind that tbh (though that has nothing to do with what the box looks like)
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Imma be real, if I see anyone still b***hing about the strike zone change in here I’m coming for their baseball fan cred cause what is this
They never should have made the visual box smaller, that's the issue. All they needed to do was take the ABS logic and apply it to DD since they've already claimed for years it's "perfect" umping by default. I personally like it, but I also understand why they should have gone the more logical and easiest way.
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@Sarge1387_PSN counterpoint: it’s a lot harder to challenge when you have to use the location of the center of the ball instead of the entire ball - unless you’re talking removing the box entirely, which is an entirely different conversation
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Question for those who know more than I currently do and in an effort to keep from posting another strike zone thread: Are the umpires in DD supposed to call a perfect strike zone, or will they still miss calls?
I ask because three times last night in events pitching as Clay Bucholtz I threw a sinker middle away to a right handed hitter that was nearly 50/50 split in half on the outside white line that was called a ball. Three times and two were for strike three. It always happened in the same location, just below the midpoint of the y axis and splitting the ball in half on the outside of the x axis. -
@LHUBison58_XBL good to know they’re still not even perfect lmao - guessing there was some glitch
