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I turn PCI off. Anything you are experiencing is just this game being stupid. My friend and I play a franchise against each other every year an we've never had as many problems as we've had with this year's game. Swing analysis lies and tells you whatever it wants. This game didn't used to suck, but I don't think I will be buying any other version after this atrocity.

I've been playing this game for 10+ years. This game sucks.

Yep, worst version of this game ever.

Save your money. This game sucks.

I know it's been touched on with other posts, but I feel like SDS needs to hear more people complain about this before they do anything about it. They bragged about improved fielding, but it's worse IMO. If that is their selling point, they are doing a horrible job!

This game is becoming as bad as Madden....

Oh, ok. I suppose that makes sense then. Maybe I'm just a bitter Brewers fan ever since they slighted Ryan Braun's speed. That man would consistently get multiple infield hits in a season, yet I think his highest speed was 68.

@eatyum said in Christian Yelich:

@n00b3rl1n said in Christian Yelich:

@eatyum said in Christian Yelich:

Yelich was a good left fielder, he won his GG at that position.
He's a below-average right fielder

I glanced at his career stats. His struggles mostly came in CF from what it looked like. Either way, a career .990 fielding percentage should not equate to 68 fielding at age 28.

Fielding percentage does not = the fielding stat. Fielding percentage is not a good way to judge how good or bad a player is

I can definitely agree with that, but his stats make him a liability in the field. Not at all the case in real life.

@asocial_grace said in Christian Yelich:

Old audio. I think his Gold Glove was like 6 years ago.

They really need to re-do 100% of the commentary, I’m tired of the stuff carried over for years already. And how hard is it for them to get Vasgersian to be able to say the name “Gleyber”?
“Up next: ... Torres.” For 2 years now. Come on.

I agree, it was probably old audio, but someone's fielding and arm doesn't fall off like that at his age. It's atrocious.

@eatyum said in Christian Yelich:

Yelich was a good left fielder, he won his GG at that position.
He's a below-average right fielder

I glanced at his career stats. His struggles mostly came in CF from what it looked like. Either way, a career .990 fielding percentage should not equate to 68 fielding at age 28.

Can anyone explain this to me, because I'm struggling to make sense of it. The game has a built in audio recording about Yelich winning a gold glove and to not test his arm either. Yet, you defecate all over his attributes:

68 Fielding
52 Arm Strength (Yeah, wouldn't want to test that)
47 Arm Accuracy
68 Reaction

This literally makes less than no sense.

New Berlin, Wisconsin. Hence my name.

They bragged that they improved fielding and it's worse than ever. They have tried patching issues, but it created just as many issues as they were trying to solve.

@IamJanko said in Shift problem:

@papafat said in Shift problem:

Year after Year and it never gets fixed

I honestly wish we could turn off infield shifts. If this problem isnt going to fixed, then at least they could prevent it from happening.

It's infuriating.

You can in Franchise, but not RTTS sadly.

They are constantly showing a graphic about how many I've hit into this season. 12 at the All-Star break =\

Well, I've never finished a career, so I've had that goal for a while. I don't like continuing from previous years, because I like the grind of making to the MLB each year. Tough for my though since I don't want to simulate appearances.

Hmmm, my guy has yet to get injured, but increasing durability is rough. I'm a couple years ahead of my friend and his durability is better than mine. I work on my fielding a lot for a couple of reasons. First, I make Pokey Reese every year (favorite player) and that's the type of player he was (also how I played the game). Second, I feel like hitting will be there if you play well enough, whereas there is more of a random aspect to fielding/throwing (with just button throwing at least).

Edit: My guy also got really lucky about being moved up. I refused a move to 3rd base to "try it out," because I usually end up getting stuck there. About a month later I got shipped to the Red Sox with only Pedroia in front of me. Ended up being a starter very quickly.

Oh, right. That's the other thing I didn't mention. I don't use guess pitch. I thought they removed it from the game when it started off by default and I just got used to not using it.

I'm up to 4 diamond equipment and the rest is gold. Ritual, Bat, Glove and Cleats are Diamond.

Nice.

I was thinking of doing achievements as well. So, here are mine:
Hit for 2 cycles, 2 Grand Slams, 3 Gold Gloves (got shafted one year), 3 Batting titles and 2 Silver Sluggers.

I might be off on this slightly. I'm not playing yet today. It's been tough for me to hit for enough power and have enough RBIs for MVP. Hard to increase power with Small Ball on top of me batting leadoff more times than not. I'll get there though.

I wonder how many people have read this and just felt sorry for me that I only play on Veteran, lol. Idk how much difference it makes, but I usually only play while indulging in some adult beverages. XD

EDIT: I'm also working on a Plain Filthy pitcher with a first pitch Knuckleball. It's been pretty fun. I only play Rookie on that. It's my "I'm too tipsy to hit" player.

My bad, you are absolutely correct. I was confusing it with the contract I signed for 5 years and forgot I had the 1 year of service already.