Can we just make a competitive game mode that you can select your difficulty? I don't want to play on All-Star. I don't want to play on a level of difficulty so low that the outcome of games is entirely random. I'm genuinely trying to figure out how every single game I play is a one run game, win or lose. I'm tired of losing 7-6 to a slap [censored] silver player that I strike out 16 times and outhit by 10, and then turn around and win 7-6 in the opposite scenario.

Whether I'm playing a high level prestige with a god squad or a bronze throwing Michael Kopech, every single time it comes down to a very small margin. It's ridiculous and it's gotten worse this RS.

Can someone point me to where I can read how this thing is put together? The more I play this, the more I genuinely think "the game" has its fingers on the scales of online play, which is the best case scenario, because otherwise this game seems very poorly made.

Easy one: give us a DH in ranked seasons (and all modes for that matter). Nothing dumber than having all these great, fun cards and only letting us use eight of them. I guarantee people would rather play with some of the most fun, most beloved players in history (Ortiz, Frank, etc.) than sacrifice bunt.

@sbevans142 said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

@poop69_lol_ said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

Happened to me last night. It’s a freeze off. If you exit out you’ll take the L.

If you choose to wait it could take a very long time.

Yep my opponent just messaged me "ur a [homophobic slur] just leave." So I'm in this for long haul everybody. Wish me luck!

Did you wait it out or take the loss?

Oooooh let me tell ya I got the W. I think he went to bed and his PS4 went into power save mode and turned off.

Yep a lot of this tracks with what I suspected. Very nice to finally have this info.

There's way too much nuance in batted balls that can be perfectly summarized with a couple adjectives, which I think is what was causing a lot of the frustration. For instance, I saw a big time streamer the other day hit an inside fastball to the opposite field for a flyout, but because he got his PCI over the center of it, it was a "good/good." And so he threw a gigantic hissy fit about how the game was out to get him. But how often do you see a player inside-out a pitch for a home run?

I think a lot of the indignation this year is the result of genuine good/goods being lumped into the same category as inferior good/goods because of a lack of descriptors.

It's like if your friend tells you a restaurant is good. Do you just head straight there without learning anything else about it? You'd want to know what kind of food they serve and if it matches up with your particular tastes. You'd want to know your friend's tastes and what they consider good. You'd want to know what to order. If you had to choose to go to every restaurant based on if it's good or okay, you'd be disappointed a lot.

@Mike__Honcho_361 said in RS game frozen for about 10 minutes now:

Happened to me last night. It’s a freeze off. If you exit out you’ll take the L.

If you choose to wait it could take a very long time.

Yep my opponent just messaged me "ur a [homophobic slur] just leave." So I'm in this for long haul everybody. Wish me luck!

Heavily underrated. I hit well with him and he's a monster defensively (and I think 1B is one of the more important positions for defense anecdotally). Great 8 hitter. I'll probably remove him once I get Giambi but until then there aren't many 1Bs I'd take over him.

I've been lights out with Snell for the most part, but you have to use him carefully -- as soon as that stamina drops his command gets a little spotty. But for 5 innings he's dominant.

I was looking for Rob Dibble and I got Rob Dibble. Great day.

Depending on how much you like Posey, I think Matt Wieters is the best catcher in the game is relatively cheap.

He's a force defensively, which is all I want out of my catcher, but he hits enough as a switch hitter to be a great 7 or 8 hitter.

It's fun and one of the more unique setups they've offered and most of the challenges are pretty beatable. But at the end of the day it's MLB The Show 20 so expect to want to repeatedly punch yourself in the face.

I started off this RS super hot. Got up to 844 quick, record like 75-35, thought I was the man (I've never made WS before, third year playing).

I've dropped six straight and 8 of 9 to fall back to around 700. I've run into 80-5 squads who 10-run me, casual dudes who 1-hit me with Edward, even somebody who threw a lefty sub-mariner with an outlier sinker and I quit by the third inning. Even on the rare occasion I've played well, my opponent outplays me.

I physically cannot win right now. Any tips for snapping out of a cold streak?

Just played a BR game. I was up early and my opponent paused for about 45 seconds. Then all of a sudden it said I forfeited?

It wasn't like a connection issue message or anything. It just said I forfeited. I wasn't even the one who paused and the timer hadn't even run out either.

I'm not like upset because it was my first BR game of the run but I don't know what happened. Did my opponent do something nefarious? Or just a random glitch? Or did I miss up somehow?

@raesone_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

I got a runner on 3rd, 2 outs and I'm in an 0-2 count. So I move my thumb from the X button for a normal swing to the O button for a contact swing, because I wanna drive that runner in.

I get a fastball up and away and I go oppo on it with a contact swing. Result: 110mph exit velocity 425 ft no doubt 2 run homer.

That is not how a contact swing is supposed to work.

Wait wait wait......

Are there three swing options?

My entire world just shattered. I'm such an idiot. I've played like a thousand hours the past two seasons and never knew about contact swing.

I thought everyone was referring to normal swing with the X button. That's what I use.

Pain.

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

I contact swing on two strikes, I did last year too. I have absolutely noticed a difference between the two years.

Do you have hard data to back this up? Does anybody?

You don't need hard data to notice a difference, SDS themselves have acknowledged they are looking into check swings to see if it needs tweaking, I think I'll trust SDS, if they see a need to look into it, something is different over previous years when nobody cared.

I think the issue is SDS doesn't provide any good batted ball stats. They only have dumb stuff like batting average and RBIs. Give us xwOBA and hard hit rate in our stats page. Let us see the broader picture for quality of contact.

I could see them including that info in an update kind of like last year's swing analysis addition when people were freaking out about good-goods. They didn't actually change the game mechanics much, they just added more info to better illustrate outcomes.

I honestly had no clue about any of the contact swing drama until like 5 minutes ago when some super angry child sent me a long message RAGING about my use of contact swing. I had absolutely no idea this was a thing and hadn't noticed any difference.

Hell, my biggest complaint about this year's game is it feels like my good contact turns into outs more often. I slugged like .600 with Jimmy Rollins last year and now I can't buy a hit.

But whatever I'm just going to keep contact swinging away. I'd like to see them try to nerf my .200 batting average.

And it's not like I've noticed my opponents benefitting from contact swing either. I've got like a sub 1.5 ERA on Ranked--last year I was running around 4. Most of my games--win or lose--end 1-0 or 2-1. Some of that I think is the free pitchers are way better than the free hitters right now, but the run environment this year seems ridiculously low.

I'd like to see SDS give us some of that composite info, in addition to the batted ball data.

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

I contact swing on two strikes, I did last year too. I have absolutely noticed a difference between the two years.

Do you have hard data to back this up? Does anybody?

You don't need hard data to notice a difference, SDS themselves have acknowledged they are looking into check swings to see if it needs tweaking, I think I'll trust SDS, if they see a need to look into it, something is different over previous years when nobody cared.

I think the issue is SDS doesn't provide any good batted ball stats. They only have dumb stuff like batting average and RBIs. Give us xwOBA and hard hit rate in our stats page. Let us see the broader picture for quality of contact.

I could see them including that info in an update kind of like last year's swing analysis addition when people were freaking out about good-goods. They didn't actually change the game mechanics much, they just added more info to better illustrate outcomes.

I honestly had no clue about any of the contact swing drama until like 5 minutes ago when some super angry child sent me a long message RAGING about my use of contact swing. I had absolutely no idea this was a thing and hadn't noticed any difference.

Hell, my biggest complaint about this year's game is it feels like my good contact turns into outs more often. I slugged like .600 with Jimmy Rollins last year and now I can't buy a hit.

But whatever I'm just going to keep contact swinging away. I'd like to see them try to nerf my .200 batting average.

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@poop69_lol__psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

I contact swing on two strikes, I did last year too. I have absolutely noticed a difference between the two years.

Do you have hard data to back this up? Does anybody?

@eatyum_psn said in Contact swing is the same as last year:

No it's not, people weren't hitting moonshots left and right with it, there is no penalty for using it, whereas before there was.

I used contact swing exclusively last year and had similar results. Was it glitched last year and just nobody talked about it?

Since when is contact swing a glitch. It's literally identical to last year.

.... unless the implication is that it was glitched last year too. I mean if anything I think I'm having worse luck on batted balls this year.

Has anybody whose complaining about contact swing actually sat down and crunched some numbers?

Take your next 100 batted balls online and record the PCI number, the exit velocity and launch angle, and see what you get.

Mine just did. Up 6-4 in the 9th inning on ranked. Gave me the loss. Any chance SDS fixes this if I file a report? Or do I just gotta accept my unsellable silver sunglasses and say thank you?

Forget which inning Felix was but man he's been hard to replace. His day may come soon but for now he's getting a start every fifth RS game.