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Directional (?))
Ya mean, what I refer to as -
" toddler TEE Ball " !

It's a skilless joke and is the epitome of what ruins this game for grown folks, those who actually played ball and/or the true fans.

There needs to be isolation toggles just like there are for "guess pitch", difficulty and the other choices prior to an online game search.
{I've said this for years and years now btw}

I play authentic ball as in a chess match, but get matched up with a puppy who plays Chinese checkers and even has extra marbles !!
2 different games and has no business at the same table ( on the same screen ) together.
They have no foul balls and practically no base runners even....just skilless and ridiculous square button mashing home run derby's.

The " fools gold " of it all is they claim to be good, sit in the leaderboards, and some how THINK they are actually playing the game.
Not hardly.
Starting an approximate timing window and
then letting attributes and algorithms do all the work....
That's not " playing " by definition of the word in the slightest.
It's nothing more than
" Watching "
(and some hoping)

Playing a large number of those top leaderboard puppies that are there year after year is mostly laughable.
It's skilless manipulation based on attributes and algorithms not player skill in the slightest.

The mixing of the
" authentic players " with the toddler Tee ball boys in online play IS this games biggest short coming and farce.

@HustlinOwl said in Online Ranked Games Aren’t being tracked:

Stop resetting my games played

Hmmm
Hello there hustlA ' .
Long time no read.
Hope all is well brothA.
The game and stats though ?
You? Who ( -owl) and then "them" too ya say?
Ha, - was hitting over .400 and no losses after the last reset.
Now it says. -..18 average and the rest of my stats are those of these toddler tee ball directional kids who watch n hope while pushing square over and over puppies.
( wait - wOw a hm run look what I found !)
Hmm.
Yes Virginia there is a "point one eight" zone hitter Rudolph !!

@HustlinOwl said in Online Rated Leaderboard Updated:

Cmon online rated community we are better than everyone selecting Cubs, Dodgers, Astros and Yankees

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Come on baseball gm players...
"We are better than toddler TEE ball directional hitting !."

Dodgers ? That's the same kiddie land bandwagon boys that used the Yankees last year . I always asked them " hey just how many Yankees vs Yankees games do you puppies play anyway".
Never got much of an answer..hmm
BUT...
.. that skilless directional puppy a** tee ball Is what ruins this gm.
-- hey let me use a top team ..stand there/ wait on a pitch in the zone and start an approximate timing window and then simply watch ( ' n hope)
( instead of play )
While top team attributes and computer algorithm do all the work for me.
Hey but " I won !".
Hmmm now did ya there son ..ha..
Not hardly... Simply FOOLS gold
Ridiculous.

@HustlinOwl said in Online Rated Leaderboard Updated:

@ALAbam22 said in Online Rated Leaderboard Updated:

@HustlinOwl said in Online Rated Leaderboard Updated:

Cmon online rated community we are better than everyone selecting Cubs, Dodgers, Astros and Yankees

---

?
Come on baseball gm players...
"We are better than toddler TEE ball directional hitting !."

Dodgers ? That's the same kiddie land bandwagon boys that used the Yankees last year . I always asked them " hey just how many Yankees vs Yankees games do you puppies play anyway".
Never got much of an answer..hmm
BUT...
.. that skilless directional puppy a** tee ball Is what ruins this gm.
-- hey let me use a top team ..stand there/ wait on a pitch in the zone and start an approximate timing window and then simply watch ( ' n hope)
( instead of play )
While top team attributes and computer algorithm do all the work for me.
Hey but " I won !".
Hmmm now did ya there son ..ha..
Not hardly... Simply FOOLS gold
Ridiculous.

Lol love you regardless how little sense this makes

Makes PURE sense brothA..
It's the depth of ones comprehension of fact that is of the " the question".
For shallowness is not determined by the depth of any water but by the solidness of " the matter".

IE :
Rock n roll ain't noise pollution..to me it makes good good sense... Good sense.

@HustlinOwl said in Online Rated Leaderboard Updated:

@ALAbam22 said in Online Rated Leaderboard Updated:

Whenever man..
My profile says it :
Just an old man playin' kids games
With team dedication and true authenticity.

So00..
As long as you don't use that UNskilled toddler tee ball BS without a bat.
( AKA what these gm designers call " "directional " or flick the stick and get a hm run 2 ft above the strike zone " analog ".
I sure was hoping that they finally gave a way to isolate the toddler TEE ball kids OUT of our games in some mode at least.
All I ever asked for in any alpha or beta for years to the point I don't even waste my time any more.
I've never played a single game w/0 Zone and meter/ analog yet EVER.
( I'm pure meter now for a few yrs )
I Always use mound visit and quick menu.
Never a long options pause either. I Respect the other and all players and to show I don't change settings 30 times a gm like these lil puppies do.
IE..- I can't hit you so I switch to directional, I can't pitch cause you have people on base and pitching becomes harder so i swap to no skill pitching too.
It's a childish joke to me...just a skilless laugh..
They should have in the settings with all-star etc to isolate zone only, all, and the different hitting types or have it catagorized
Novice, vetern ECT and keep the no hitting tee ball boys somewhere else besides playing my old a**...
It's the very reason I don't play much anymore even though I buy/ preorder the top tier of the gm every year.
I lost to some skilless puppy last gm I played that hit 7 hm runs in ONE gm .
Of coarse the dodgers and the kid probably lived in downtown Cleveland and has season tickets to the tribe games with his d*** grandaddy... I strikeout 14+ a gm average so far this yr and have hardly played a tee ball boy.
I've played 2 that well .. all they did was hit hm runs AND do that opposite field against the shift junk glitch ball. ( Ground ball down 3rd base line )
It's ridiculous and Takes ALLL the fun out of this game, all the needed skill, annnd the pure authenticity.
I'd be embarrassed and ashamed to use that BS and still claim to be " playing " by definition of the word.
It's skilless watching .. nothing else.

Anyway..
( enough of the factual soap box)
Soo00, how bout those Reds there Mr Dave Concepcion !
( These younsters have no clue who that is...run to Google now ;).
I forget sometimes I was throwin' ( not throw-ing) 2 finger side armed curves and full float knuckle balls before most of 'em Annd their daddys were born.

Ummmm zone hitting and pulse pitching hall of fame difficulty
--
What is pulse?
My old @** barely has a pulse some days !

@cbpm72_psn said in Why directional is trash for online...:

I don't care which system anyone uses to hit (or pitch), but I won't really go for use of the word 'authentic' until they figure out pitching and batting views from the inside of the pitcher/batter skulls. Like what they're actually seeing. Maybe then we can talk about an authentic experience. Until then we've got pitching from either the outfield view or the catcher's view (!) and hitting from the catcher's view primarily...and for some,also from the umpire's view if he's standing back the mandated two metres for COVID-19.

Me personally.
Pitch = outfield
Hit = zoom.
And since this game systems ago hit the market.
Every pause is also a mound visit when pitching.
No long pause period on offense nor defense.
As authentic as the game allows and never used another team in online rated other than the Chi SoX

@the_dragon1912 said in Why directional is trash for online...:

@alabam22_psn said in Why directional is trash for online...:

@the_dragon1912 said in Why directional is trash for online...:

@alabam22_psn said in Why directional is trash for online...:

@guccigangchuck said in Why directional is trash for online...:

@alabam22_psn said in Why directional is trash for online...:

Directional (?))
Ya mean, what I refer to as -
" toddler TEE Ball " !

It's a skilless joke and is the epitome of what ruins this game for grown folks, those who actually played ball and/or the true fans.

There needs to be isolation toggles just like there are for "guess pitch", difficulty and the other choices prior to an online game search.
{I've said this for years and years now btw}

I play authentic ball as in a chess match, but get matched up with a puppy who plays Chinese checkers and even has extra marbles !!
2 different games and has no business at the same table ( on the same screen ) together.
They have no foul balls and practically no base runners even....just skilless and ridiculous square button mashing home run derby's.

The " fools gold " of it all is they claim to be good, sit in the leaderboards, and some how THINK they are actually playing the game.
Not hardly.
Starting an approximate timing window and
then letting attributes and algorithms do all the work....
That's not " playing " by definition of the word in the slightest.
It's nothing more than
" Watching "
(and some hoping)

Playing a large number of those top leaderboard puppies that are there year after year is mostly laughable.
It's skilless manipulation based on attributes and algorithms not player skill in the slightest.

The mixing of the
" authentic players " with the toddler Tee ball boys in online play IS this games biggest short coming and farce.

bruh the top players use zone, no one at top of the leaderboards is rocking directional.

Incorrect !!!
And
100% incorrect.

Keep telling yourself that lmao. Not a single top 200 player is using directional. There might be 3 total players a year that make World Series with directional. And that is being generous

Son, you are very wrong
Very wrong
In online rated I can name numerous toddler tee ball skilless puppies.
I've played them for years and years.

That's where your problem is. The best of the best in online rated get mercied by the top DD players lmao

You obviously are of the younger generation(s) and your typing display dictates such.

So what is more skillful
and /0r harder to do?
Place a aiming area over where the ball is - as in aiming a bat OR just pushing a button and watching and hoping.

*Also is it harder to hit with a diamond souped up attribute " likeness" or with a 30-40 contact rated player? Ect ect.

One has a pci the size of the state of Nebraska and the other a vision rating of say 19 and a pci the size of a table spoon

So great analogy there
youngster !!