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@milehighmadness1_mlbts said in So.. am I basically done now?:

I know perks and equipment give you ratings boosts, I just don’t like that they HAVE to be used. I’d rather have my player develop naturally rather than arbitrary perks and equipment giving me stat boosts that don’t make sense

How do they not make sense?
If you wear cleats, don't you run faster than if you wear loafers?

Also, they don't have to be used. You can choose to not equip them. I think you can still reach a rating of around 80 without archetypes and perks.

After you select the pitcher as your active ballplayer, you need to start a new career with it. You can't continue the 2B career with a pitcher (hence the error).

@papafat_psn said in Heads Up! Ballplayer Conflict:

I opened a ticked not that that will do me any good but, they only file available to load is the fist ballplayer I made (second baseman). I created 5 pitchers they are all in the manage player and I can Activate any of them but when I use the square at RTTS on the main screen there is only one file the second baseman.

But that is by design: you can put any active ballplayer in a career file.
If you want to start a new career with an existing ballplayer, you can. You select the option from the main menu, and when it asks to choose a ballplayer, you make sure you select the ballplayer you want from your list. You get the cutscenes, select a team on your call with the agent, and there you are: a new career with the chosen ballplayer. This career file will keep the position of the player you started it with: if you had a catcher active when you start the career, the career will be for a catcher. If later you open this file while using any hitter (including 2-way player), they will have to catch.

To recap: you can use any created ballplayer with any career file, as long as the player is position compatible.

Here's an economic point of view, if you need one: in my opinion, there are better rewards on the Pitcher archetypes.

It should be a fastball, but it's not. The game considers the Sinker a breaking ball.
Here's how I know: there's an in-game challenge that you are sometimes presented with, "strike out the batter with a fastball". This succeeds with 4SFB, 2SFB, or Cutter, but fails with a Sinker.

The only way to increase the velocity of the Sinker (other than Archetype and Perks) is through weekly bullpen sessions.

The progress is only recorded at the end of the game. You are lucky not to have gone through a great game, only to experience a crash before the game ends, and weep when you notice the progress has been wiped and you need to start over.

What you call the "main perk" is actually called "archetype". The archetypes are for specific players and not interchangeable.
If you created a pitcher, you chose the type of pitcher you wanted when you created him. If you chose "Velocity", then you get velocity related archetypes (Filthy Cheese and Painted Cheese).

When you create a position player, you choose either Power, Contact or Fielding. Each of these would give you a different pair of archetypes.
Finally, if you create a two-way player, you choose a type of pitcher, for when you pitch, and a type of position player, when you bat. For example, if you chose Velocity pitching and Power hitting, your archetype is Cheesy Slugger.

In case you don't know, the names in archetypes come from the traits:
Velocity = Cheese
Break = Filth
Control = Paint

Power = Slugger
Contact = Sparking
Fielding = Slick (slickster)

If you're talking about a two-way player archetype, they give you boosts for both pitching and batting, and you can progress the archetype with either pitching or batting stats.
I like to still create separate loadouts for position play and pitching, which I choose before a game starts. Even though both loadouts use the same archetype, the batting loadout would use batting/fielding perks and equipment, while the pitching loadout would use pitching/fielding perks and equipment. For example, the ritual item would be Dual Dragon or Legend in a Cleat if batting, but Axle Grease if pitching.

It's a known bug.
It's annoying, but not critical, so it's not likely to be high on SDS radar.

The complaint is legit: I want to see some fielding opportunities, but the game puts me in to watch HRs.
What you're saying is that setting the game to "no opportunities" is a workaround, but it's not. Putouts, assists, stolen bases: if you don't do them yourself, they don't count for archetype progress. So, setting the opportunities to None means slower archetype progress. Not to mention less aspects of the game to enjoy.

@Leepugsley666777_PSN The best opportunities I've had so far have been at 2B. Lots of groundballs, DP opportunities, and the occasional popped balls.

She said "Seager in LA", so she's talking about 21.

Last year, while progressing the archetypes, I turned off the baserunning opportunities, and I would still get the occasional stolen base, just from having high speed and stealing attributes.
This year, even if my player steals a base on auto, they don't count for the progress. If you want to get stolen bases to count, you have to do them yourself.
Yes, they definitely wanted slower progression this year.

I think these changes were intentional, not accidental. They go along with the general direction for The Show 22: you can no longer be great at everything. You will have to choose your archetype carefully to match the position you play.

Oh, and by the way, I found The Anomaly a better archetype than The Duke. You lose contact, sure, but you get loads in fielding and baserunning skills. So, pile up the contact perks and equipment, and I think you get better overall.

@spin_doctor01_psn said in Arm Accuracy perks not being applied:

@yardem-hane_xbl said in Arm Accuracy perks not being applied:

I think it's broken.
I have some pieces of equipment that are giving me SPD and STL (ritual, socks and cleats). I can see the bonus for SPD, but nothing for STL.

I guess it's random as to what is working. My steal perks are being applied.

It's possible that various stats are working and others are not, depending on archetype. If that is consistent across platforms, then it might even be intentional.

On my starting pitcher, I see some stats applied, and some not applied.
For example, the fielding glove has +12 FLD, +8 ARM, +7 ACC, +10 K/9, and +6 H/9. Of them, FLD and ACC do not apply, while the others do.
I should get some more FLD and ACC from my eyewear, but none of it appears with my attributes.
More so, no SPD, no STL applied, although I have socks and cleats that should give me some.

It looks like a pitcher cannot benefit from certain equipment attributes.

Same gear, when applied to a position player, gives all the equipment attribute boosts, we expect. I see all SPD, STL, CON, PWR, etc. Obviously, this player received no boosts for pitcher attributes like K/9, H9, etc.

The odd one out is my 2-way player. He gets the pitcher boosts: H/9, K/9, BB/9, and HR/9. He gets all the batter boosts, but only some fielding/baserunning boosts. This one gets SPD, but not STL.

If someone can confirm the above, with different archetype and equipment, it might actually be intentional.

I think it's broken.
I have some pieces of equipment that are giving me SPD and STL (ritual, socks and cleats). I can see the bonus for SPD, but nothing for STL.

I think it means your chances to make a catch are slim.
Depending on your position and the game situation (score, runners on bases, inning) you may choose to risk a catch or play it safe.

Last year, I was forced to play 2-way, even though I only wanted to pitch. You'd get the manager question twice per season, and after a few times saying no, they switch you to 2-way anyway, and then there's no going back.

This year, it doesn't seem possible to be converted to 2-way (except for that pesky bug, which I blame on Chris Russo).

After pitching 12 perfect innings, I lost the game in the bottom of 13th, when I gave up a single.

Any feedback to the above would be appreciated. I'm keeping it in a Google Doc, ready to copy/paste it until SDS adds a way to sticky a thread.

In this year's game, we have two separate entities: ballplayers and career files.
1. Ballplayers
First time you entered RTTS, you had to create a new ballplayer. You chose a play style (Pitcher, Position or Two-Way), an Archetype (two for a Two-Way player), and a position.
NOTE: Once you choose the play style, archetype(s) and position, this ballplayer will be stuck with these choices. Other aspects of the ballplayer can be changed at any time: name, appearance, loadouts, equipment.
You can create up to 10 ballplayers. From the main menu, go to your account (top-left icon), then go to MANAGE to select a different active ballplayer, create a new ballplayer, or delete an existing ballplayer.
A ballplayer also has his own attributes and quirks. The attributes are improved through game play (in RTTS) and through the training missions. If you delete a ballplayer, this progress is lost.
While progressing through the archetype missions, you will earn better archetypes and perks. These are attached to your account, they are not per ballplayer. Even if you delete a ballplayer, the archetype and perks remain available, so you can re-use them with a different ballplayer that has the exact same archetype.

2. Career Files
The progress in RTTS is tracked in a career file. When you start the RTTS mode for the very first time, a career file is automatically created along with the first ballplayer. If you want to start a brand new career file, you can use the button for MORE OPTIONS, then choose Load Save File.
When you start a new career file, a team is chosen (as selected, or at random if no team is selected), and the position of the ACTIVE ballplayer is assigned. So, if your active ballplayer is a second baseman, for example, and you choose San Diego Padres as your team, then the career file will be for a second baseman with the Padres.
However, if you load an existing career file, you will continue that career with the ACTIVE ballplayer. In this case, the position of the ballplayer is ignored, and you will play whatever position the career file had.
NOTE: the position of the career file can be altered through gameplay: for example, you might have to switch your Padres second baseman to a different position, when they tell you that the team is happy with Cronensworth at 2B.
If the ballplayer has an incompatible position with the career file, you will get an error, and will be returned to the main menu. So, if your active player is a Pitcher, and you try to load a career file of a second baseman, this will not be possible. As long as the ballplayer and the career file have compatible positions, you can load the career file and continue that career with that ballplayer. The funny part is that the career file will be adjusted to the new ballplayer on the fly: the new player will automatically inherit the stats of the previous player.
When you load a career file, there are several pieces of information you will see: the name of the last ballplayer that made progress in that career file, the team, the date of the last progress, and the timestamp of that progress in real time.
For example:

Von Miller, Dodgers Second Base August 9, 2025
Thu Apr 21 23:36:00 2022 3.36 MB

This career file is for a second baseman with the Dodgers, and the last progress was a game on August 9, 2025 with a player named Von Miller. I played that game last night, just before midnight. The file is 3.36 MB (this grows as the career progresses).
If I load this file with my outfielder, Michael Jordan, and play at least one game, then the file name will have some parts changed: the player name, the date of the progress (August 10th or something), and the timestamp. It will still be Dodgers Second Base, even though MJ is a left fielder.

To delete a career file, from the main menu, go to settings (top-right), then File Management. Be careful: there are more than career files here!
If you start a new career file with an existing ballplayer, the player's progress (attributes, archetype, equipment) will continue exactly from where you left off. However, the career will once again begin in AA. You can select a new team, but your ballplayer's position will be used for the file.