Official scoring needs a little tweaking
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So I’m playing road to the show. I’m enjoying it, but was a little confused by an earned run. I was given when it should’ve been unearned. With a man on first a grinder was hit to my first baseman who fielded the ball cleanly but threw the ball wide to second allowing all runners to be safe. that’s clearly an error and it was appropriately given to him. Although he was charged with two errors on the play and I may be wrong, but I thought only one should be charged. Anyway, after recording the second out, the next batter gets up and lines one into right field. The runner from second, who would’ve been out if the error wasn’t committed, scored. I was ultimately charged for an earned run. I know it’s not the end of the world and it’s only a video game, but it would be nice not to have these mistakes in the game. other than that and a few other graphics that show up with wrong information, the game has been pretty enjoyable and on point. Hopefully, with the future update, this can be corrected.
Also, I would just like to add that when equipping special equipment, such as cleats, arm guards, or whatever they all tend to switch with the teams uniform to match the colors. But for some reason, the socks do not. It may just be visual and not a gameplay issue, but for some reason, I just can’t help but like the little things. -
Actually, if i read your senario correctly, the correct stat call was made. An unearned run is only given if the error leads directly to a run scoring on the actual error. The other scenario is if the error was committed with 2 outs in the inning and the play would have led to the final out of the inning, then any runs scoring as a result of the error and any subsequent runs scoring after the 2 out error would be deemed unearned.
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I understand what you’re saying and that completely makes sense. I can’t believe I’ve been looking at that wrong as I’ve been watching baseball since I was a kid. Guess there’s always time to learn something new. I appreciate the response. Was it correct to give the first baseman two errors on the play?
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Ya baseball rules are not always clear. I played some form of baseball for close to 40 years (i'm 49), but i also umpired, so that help with understanding the rules.
I didn't include that because I am still trying to figure that one out myself. Lol
Only scenario I can think of, is if he booted the catch and was given an error for that and then was given a second error for the throw. If he made the play clean and the threw the ball away it would be only one.
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This is a very fair criticism of SDS's game code. It is not merely questionable scoring in terms of errors not being awarded when they should, but in playing Franchise one season, my custom player that I play similar to RTTS was going along as a two-way player without an error.
Suddenly, he was charged an error when not once was that player given an error during gameplay. I went back in time searching through post game box scores and finally found the game from three months prior where an error was tallied, but when that game was actually played, no error was charged and the player was in left field, so if there is an error, it would have been fairly obvious.
Best I could recall, there was a throw that got past the cutoff man, but there was no base advance by the hitter, who remained at first. The third baseman backed up the cut off man and made the catch. That's not an error since there was no base advance on that throw. Worse, again, no error was charged when the game was played and I checked to see if perhaps one was being charged. So, that error was charged two months after the game completed.
There is one other mistake in the game code when it comes to ERA. Extra innings ghost runners scoring do not count as earned runs. In addition, that runner scoring does not retroactively award the pitcher who completed the previous inning with a loss. Yet, several times I have seen it where the previous pitcher who completed the previous inning with the score still tied, and yet a new pitcher started the extra inning and the ghost runner scored to win the game and it was not the pitcher who started the inning who earned the loss, it was instead the pitcher who completed the previous inning who was tallied with the loss.
The actual rules state that if a ghost runner scores the winning run in extra innings that the pitcher on the mound when that run scored is awarded the loss but it is recorded as an unearned run. The current SDS game code does not get this correct.
