Matched up with a Directional Hitter
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It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
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How exactly do you define the "better player" in order for them to win 100% of the time? Is it who hits the most perfects?
What if one guy gets 9 well hit balls, including 3 perfects, but it was one per inning, all 3 perfects left and all 6 well hit balls were hits/xbh, but did not end up scoring because it was only one an inning.
The other player only had 4 well hit balls, one being perfect. They were all in the same inning and the perfect ended up being a grand slam.
Thus the second player wins 4-3 despite massively underperforming in terms of feedback.
An unlikely scenario of course, but in order for SDS to make the better player win 100% of the time, the term "better player" has to be properly explained no?
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And yet, none of the top players use directional. I assume they would if it was so unfairly rewarded.
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I will admit there was a sigh of relief once I realized what was going on with this game...I thought I was going crazy..haha
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