The Show is Still Bad, BUT... / Realizations / Strike Zone
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WOAH! Just got done with the worst nerfing in my life. SDS straight gave this man the game. Unbelievable.... well not really, because it happens wayyyyy too often. To punish me, I guess, for last night's comeback game, this game was decided by a routine fly ball error to center field that my guy just let drop on the grass. It rolls back, runner gets to 3rd and scores. Then I was forced to hang a slider, giving up a homerun. The pitch was just fine, way down and in... but SDS put it right in his crush house. Those were my opponent's only 2 "hits." An error that should have never been an error and a BS hanger. I was using Greg Maddux btw... a pitcher known for his poor accuracy. (eye roll and sarcasm) I ended up pitching a complete game with him, and then watched every good contact / timed swing result in wet noodle physics. Not to mention the single Chipper Jones would've had, but he slowed up and started acting like he was going to round first which cause him to be out lol. I lose the game 2-1. This is becoming their legacy. SDS is no better than EA, and The Show is no better than Madden. Disgraceful.
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@Squid_Adams_PSN said in The Show is Still Bad, BUT... / Realizations / Strike Zone:
7 hours with no reply, so I'll keep adding on to the list of real world MLB games and their hits to homeruns ratio. I'll do all of this real time so I'm giving all the data and not just what backs up my case.
July 28th:
First I'll do the Braves vs Royals game. Braves defeat Royals 10-7. Between the two teams, there were 17 runs, 21 hits and 4 homeruns.Next I'll do another high scoring affair. Orioles vs Blue Jays. Orioles win 11 to 4. Total runs between the teams: 15. Total hits: 27. Total homeruns: 6
Third and final for this run let's go with the Brewers vs the Cubs. Brewers win 8 to 4. Total runs: 12, Total hits: 16, Total homeruns: 3.
As promised, I was completely unbiased and I chose 3 random high scoring games from today. The 6 homers is admittedly a higher number... but I have yet to find a single game where 40-50% plus of the hits are homeruns, despite what MLB The Show and it's "real baseball" would have you believe.
I asked Siri “what percentage of runs are scored off homeruns” and it told me roughly 40% of all runs are scored off homeruns according to MLB.com so 3 games is really not a large enough sample size. I was annoyed at the foul ball rate in the game and literally tracked it for 50 games which is almost 1/3rd of the season. I hit too many homeruns in my franchise but the reason I do is because I don’t adjust the sliders for simulation results. If it hurt my overall results I’d take the gameplay XP hit and make the adjustment.
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I gave a 6 game sample size. I can continue to give samples as real time MLB scores come in? Also, my objection was the hits to homerun ratio.
Yesterday's top scoring game was the Rockies vs the Indians. 25 hits and 14 runs between them. 5 homeruns. While five bombs is admittedly on the higher end, it still only makes up 20% of the hits. In a lot of games I play, homeruns make up anywhere from 35% to 50% of hits.
