All-Star Sliders (Zone/Meter)

[bostongahden]

Hey all,
I've been playing MLB 10 The Show for the past 2 years and this is my first upgrade. Boy, am I glad I did! I am posting my sliders below and testing is in its infancy (one game to be exact) but these are a carryover from MLB 10. As far as the pulse pitching, I'm not a fan yet and may never be. The meter really works the same way IMO and the analog stuff is too much of a stretch for this 40-something gamer. I also feel zone hitting is the way to go as it presents some added difficulty. Still tweaking and suggestions are welcome. I lost 4-3 with the Red Sox to the Yankees in my first game. I was outhit 9-7 and each pitcher (Lester and Sabathia) tossed 100 pitches by the end of the 6th inning. The cpu had 66% strikes and I logged 64%. I walked 4 batters and should have drawn 3 walks but swung at a few ball 4 pitches. I hit the only dinger, a 2 run job by my favorite Red Sox Dustin Pedroia. Anyway more results later and here they are. BTW the sliders with the asterisks are the ones I am focusing on at this time. Enjoy!



SETTINGS -

BATTING & BASERUNNING
Hitting Difficulty - All-Star
Hitting Interface – Zone
Hitting View – Catcher
Button Interface - Classic
Guess Pitch – ON
Baserunner Interface - Default
Bassrunning Decisions - Assist
Sliding Decisions - Assist
Runner Window – ON
Controller Sliding – OFF

PITCHING
Pitching Difficulty - All-Star
Pitching Interface – Meter
Pitching View – Catcher
Pitching Ball Marker - ON
Pitch Callout – FULL
Pitch Confidence - On
Pitch Delay - Normal
API: ON

FIELDING
Throwing Interface - Buttons
Throwing Meter – OFF
Throwing Difficulty - All-Star
Throwing Decision - Off
Throw Cancelling - Off
Fielding Decision - Assist
Defensive Shift - Auto
One Button Dive/Jump - OFF
Catch Region Indicator - On
Catch Position Indicator - On
Tag Up Indicator - On
Rob HR Indicator - On
Fielding View Offense – Medium
Fielding View Defense – Medium
Controller Fielding - OFF

GENERAL
Strike Zone – ON
Hot Zones - Off
Swing/Pitch Analysis - On
Balks - On
Warm Up Pitchers - On
Umpire Balls and Strikes - Variable
Umpire Close Plays - On
Check Swing Appeals - On
Injuries - On
Ejections - On
Vibration – OFF

SLIDERS -

Human Contact - 6
Human Power – 5
Human Timing – 6
Stride Difficulty - 5
Human Foul Frequency - 5
Human Solid Hits – 5
Human Starter Stamina – 5
Human Reliever Stamina – 2
Human Pitch Control – 3
Human Pitcher Consistency – 3

CPU Contact – 5
CPU Power –3
CPU Timing – 4
CPU Foul Frequency - 5
CPU Solid Hits – 3
CPU Starter Stamina – 5
CPU Reliever Stamina – 2
CPU Pitcher Control – 2
CPU Pitcher Consistency – 2
CPU Strike Frequency – 2
CPU Manager Hook – 6
CPU Pickoffs - 5

Pitch Speed – 3
Fielding Errors – 6
Throwing Errors – 6
Fielder Run Speed – 3
Fielder Reaction - 4
Fielder Arm Strength - 4
Baserunner Speed - 4
Baserunner Steal Frequency - 5
Baserunner Steal Ability – 4
Wind - 5
Injury - 6

[bostongahden]

Made one change above in red. Relievers down to 2. Hope to post some game results soon.

[bostongahden]

Boston Red Sox at Minnesota Twins
Mar 17,	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Boston (Me)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0
Minnesota (CPU)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	1
W: Lester (1-0) L: Baker (0-1) S: Bailey (1)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			BOS	MIN

Boston Red Sox
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
BATTING: 3B: Saltalamacchia (1) HR: Gonzalez (1) RBI: Gonzalez (1), Aviles (1) GIDP: Aviles

Minnesota Twins
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
BATTING: 2B: Willingham (1), Valencia (1), Casilla (1) RBI: Plouffe (1)
FIELDING: E: Mauer

Boston Red Sox
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Lester	3.0	1	0	0	1	3
Cook	2.0	2	1	1	0	1
Melancon	1.0	1	0	0	0	3
Tazawa	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
Miller	1.0	0	0	0	0	2
Bailey	1.0	0	0	0	0	1

Minnesota Twins
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Baker	3.0	1	1	1	0	3
Marquis	1.0	2	1	1	0	1
Duensing	1.0	0	0	0	1	1
Waldrop	1.0	0	0	0	0	1
Maloney	1.0	2	0	0	0	2
Zumaya	1.0	0	0	0	0	1
Burnett	1.0	0	0	0	1	0

Well, it was a pitching duel as you can see but I was very happy with the results. Good variety of hard hit balls, choppers, bloopers and such. Forgot to report % of strikes but I do know Lester had 37 pitches after 3 innings and Baker was slightly lower so pitch counts would be realistic over a full game. I'm playing ST so I want to get a look at the entire staff before the OSFM rosters drop. I am really watching the timing and contact slider for the cpu. As my hitting improves, I think they will be increased by one. Also changed throwing meter OFF (in red above) to rely on fielding skills only. Having lots of fun creating highlights as well

[bostongahden]

Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox
Mar 20,	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore (CPU)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	9	1
Boston (ME)	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	1

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			BAL	BOS
BOS	3	GWRBI - Shoppach 3 run homer

Baltimore Orioles
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
BATTING: 2B: McDonald (1), Ross (1) HR: Shoppach (1) RBI: Shoppach 3, (3), Ross (1), Sweeney (1)
BASERUNNING: CS: Iglesias (Wieters)
FIELDING: E: Pedroia

Boston Red Sox
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
BATTING: RBI: Markakis (1), Reimold (1) GIDP: Davis
BASERUNNING: CS: Roberts (Shoppach)
FIELDING: E: Wieters

Baltimore Orioles
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Beckett	3.0	4	1	1	1	4	0
Padilla	3.0	4	1	1	0	3	0
Bowden	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	0
Carlson	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Ohlendorf	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0
PITCHING: Pitches-Strikes: Beckett 54 pitches; Red Sox 154 pitches (64% strikes)

Boston Red Sox
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Hunter	3.0	2	3	3	0	4	1
Britton	1.0	3	2	2	1	2	0
Tillman	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Galarraga	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gregg	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0
O'Day	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0
PITCHING: Pitches-Strikes: Hunter 45 pitches; Orioles 121 pitches (74% strikes)

Another spring win for me Check out pitch counts and strike %. Another good mixture of hits. I may soon bump up the cpu power a notch as they haven't hit a homer yet in three games. I don't wait as long to change my sliders as I feel I have a good handle on how these play out from experience.

[bostongahden]

Some major changes in red on first post. I was painting too easily so I dropped Human control and consistency. To offset the high % of cpu strikes, I dropped that by 1. Cpu has yet to homer off me so I bumped up cpu power by one and increased contact and timing. Remains to be seen if this cpu batting improvement will stay as I have a feeling more hits will be coming as I drop the human control in the pitching dept. Neither the cpu or I have had double digit hits yet. I also backed off on the human power by one.

*Note - Just realized I had a typo for Human and cpu pitching stamina. It should have been 5 all along. Sorry!

[bostongahden]

Pittsburgh Pirates at Boston Red Sox
Mar 21,	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pittsburgh ()	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	12	0
Boston ()	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	5	0
W: Bedard (2-0) L: Bard (0-1) S: Hanrahan (2)

Pittsburgh Pirates
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
BATTING: 2B: Evans (1) RBI: McCutchen (2), Walker (1) GIDP: Presley, Fox
BASERUNNING: SB: Tabata (2), McCutchen 2 (4)

Boston Red Sox
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
BATTING: 2B: Youkilis (1) RBI: Pedroia (1), Sweeney (1) SF: Sweeney GIDP: Sweeney

Pittsburgh Pirates
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Bedard	3.0	2	0	0	0	4	0
McDonald	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Morton	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Lincoln	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Moskos	0.1	1	1	1	1	1	0
Resop	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Meek	0.1	2	1	1	0	0	0
Grilli	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Hanrahan	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0
PITCHING: Pitches-Strikes: 100 pitches 69% strikes

Boston Red Sox
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Bard	4.0	6	3	3	0	3	0
Miller	3.0	4	0	0	0	2	0
Melancon	1.0	1	0	0	0	3	0
Morales	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0
PITCHING: Pitches-Strikes: 137 pitches 72% strikes

OK I think I finally hit my stride with the sliders. Played this game with the changes in red on the first post. Decreased the cpu pitch control to create more BB chances and had 3 this game. The cpu hit the ball more solidly as I anticipated by lowering human pitch control values. I kept timing and contact at three instead of moving them to 4 for the cpu and that was the right move for now as the cpu had 12 hits. First time double digits in hits was reached and still no homers off me in 5 games. I dropped human power and the difference was noticeable and appropriate. My first loss but heading toward more even gameplay. After about another half dozen games I should have these locked down. Great fun

[maddmattrix]

Hey man, thanks for doing these. Been looking for a Zone/Meter All-Star set (I'm using Pulse but it seems pretty much identical). Going to give them a run tomorrow in my spring training games and see how it goes. Looking at your results, I'm hoping for some good games

[bostongahden]

My pleasure,madd. Just trying to help out and I'll keep posting results as much as possible