Lied to by game
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I requested a trade to a WS competitor and i got traded to the mets who at that point in the season were in second to last place in the NL just above the Rockies and who finished the year at over 120 losses. The rockies had 130 losses. Then after suffering through that winning the firstbase golden glove and the mvp and silver slugger awards requested a trade just to be told no one was interested in me.
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Yeah, that's truly realistic. League MVP, gold glove, and silver slugger, and no team is interested in your services.
This game code is so skewed from how real baseball works that one wonders if the stymies are not desired.
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gold glove on a horrific team that led the whole mlb in errors and no one is interested. We had over 200 errors which most were surprisingly on the catcher.
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gold glove on a horrific team that led the whole mlb in errors and no one is interested.
It's a joke, no doubt. The game code isn't written to evaluate seasonal performance. My thought is it merely evaluates the player's overall attribute level. This has been a constant refrain from customers who point this out, and it's never been addressed.
That said, when it comes to human motivations, I am reminded of the infamous statement by Pittsburgh Pirates GM, Branch Rickey, who gave his best player, Ralph Kiner, a 25% pay cut from his previous season. When Kiner objected to the scale of the cut, Rickey replied, "We finished in last place with you. We can finish in last place without you!" Add this to the public denigrations in the press that the team made against Kiner as a player, and you can see the toxic mentality of the Pirates at work.
One could argue that the SDS game code operates along the ruthless nature of the 1950's Rickey versus Kiner mode. Or, one could argue that it is merely another example of the SDS game code being one dimensional, vice written to evaluate more than merely one facet. Another way to evaluate it is that individual customer performance is rooted out of the equation, so as to diminish the role the human has in exceeding the boundaries that the game code operates with.
Regardless, the code operates alien to common sense, and this destroys immersion, which used to be considered the holy grail of any game that operated with an avatar player model. Coders thirsted for options that would make the human customer think in more real world terms. Today? Doesn't seem to matter at all any longer.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL my ovr was 96 at the end of that season which makes this even worse
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL my ovr was 96 at the end of that season which makes this even worse
LOL!!
Yeah, that makes it even worse! I left SDS an undeserved out, and you proved even that was unfounded!
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still not as bad as when my closer got 81 saves in a year and lost reliever of the year to a prospect who only had 20 save worse era and a whip of 6 to my .03
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It's a joke when my rookie is leading the Brewers in HR, RBI and AVG and is batting 8th or 9th in the lineup.
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@palmerjones_PSN Let me guess you are above average in speed fielding and either contact or power yet somehow always in the last 3 spots ESPECIALLY during the post season AND your ovr is at least 80.
