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Judger21 · 03-09-2010, 02:03 PM

The amount of knuckle-ball throwing prospects is just absurd right now. I'm in year 2016 of my RTTS and I went through and counted how many there were in the american league: 44. Yes. 44. And its either their second or third pitch... It's just ********.

metal134 · 03-09-2010, 02:04 PM

Ugh...... how many years now and this is STILL an issue?

Judger21 · 03-09-2010, 02:06 PM

Yeah.. It's truly ********, one of the only things I dislike about the series. They don't even look like real knuckle-balls. They don't lob nearly that much in real life.

metal134 · 03-09-2010, 02:19 PM

I think the problem is that, when creating a player, the game just completely randomizes the pitches with all of them being equal. If this is the case, SCEA could easily fix it in two ways; 1, they could just place a simple percentage on each pitch (say, 95% for a 4 seamer, .05% or whatever the n umber for a knuckleball), but that still wouldn't fix the issue of guys that throw a knuckleball and a 95MPH fastball. The other solution is that they could do what EA did for Madden and handcraft draft classes. Though that would be very time consuming.

baseball66 · 03-09-2010, 02:23 PM

For the amount of real knuckleball pitchers in the bigs they could almost do away with that pitch. Just tie it into the couple that actually do throw it.

Qb · 03-09-2010, 02:27 PM

There is an option for "pitch repetoire" on/off. I'm at work now so I don't have the actual info in front of me, but one option gives all pitchers a full arsenal of four or five pitches and the other gives them their "real-life" pitches. This is explained on-screen when the option is highlighted.

Perhaps this is the issue? And sorry I can't be more specific, but I only saw it in passing in the menu screens the other day and I'm at work.

metal134 · 03-09-2010, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Qb


	There is an option for "pitch repetoire" on/off. I'm at work now so I don't have the actual info in front of me, but one option gives all pitchers a full arsenal of four or five pitches and the other gives them their "real-life" pitches. This is explained on-screen when the option is highlighted. Perhaps this is the issue? And sorry I can't be more specific, but I only saw it in passing in the menu screens the other day and I'm at work.

We're talking about randomly generated players in franchise/season/RTTS.

Qb · 03-09-2010, 02:37 PM

I think it would be worth investigating. Perhaps "real-life" refers to the pitches in the in-game repetoire, meaning it would apply to fake/generated players as well. I'm thinking the game is giving these guys extra pitches to round out their arsenal. But I could be wrong... wouldn't be the first time.

03-09-2010, 02:03 PM	#1
Judger21 Banned OVR: 0 Join Date: Mar 2010	Knuckle-Ballers The amount of knuckle-ball throwing prospects is just absurd right now. I'm in year 2016 of my RTTS and I went through and counted how many there were in the american league: 44. Yes. 44. And its either their second or third pitch... It's just ********.

03-09-2010, 02:04 PM	#2
metal134 MVP OVR: 10 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Canton, OH	Re: Knuckle-Ballers Ugh...... how many years now and this is STILL an issue? __________________ A screaming comes across the sky...

03-09-2010, 02:06 PM	#3
Judger21 Banned OVR: 0 Join Date: Mar 2010	Re: Knuckle-Ballers Yeah.. It's truly ********, one of the only things I dislike about the series. They don't even look like real knuckle-balls. They don't lob nearly that much in real life.

03-09-2010, 02:19 PM	#4
metal134 MVP OVR: 10 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Canton, OH	Re: Knuckle-Ballers I think the problem is that, when creating a player, the game just completely randomizes the pitches with all of them being equal. If this is the case, SCEA could easily fix it in two ways; 1, they could just place a simple percentage on each pitch (say, 95% for a 4 seamer, .05% or whatever the n umber for a knuckleball), but that still wouldn't fix the issue of guys that throw a knuckleball and a 95MPH fastball. The other solution is that they could do what EA did for Madden and handcraft draft classes. Though that would be very time consuming. __________________ A screaming comes across the sky...

03-09-2010, 02:23 PM	#5
baseball66 Banned OVR: 15 Join Date: Mar 2009	Re: Knuckle-Ballers For the amount of real knuckleball pitchers in the bigs they could almost do away with that pitch. Just tie it into the couple that actually do throw it.

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03-09-2010, 02:27 PM	#6
Qb All Star OVR: 43 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 8,807	Re: Knuckle-Ballers There is an option for "pitch repetoire" on/off. I'm at work now so I don't have the actual info in front of me, but one option gives all pitchers a full arsenal of four or five pitches and the other gives them their "real-life" pitches. This is explained on-screen when the option is highlighted. Perhaps this is the issue? And sorry I can't be more specific, but I only saw it in passing in the menu screens the other day and I'm at work.

03-09-2010, 02:37 PM	#8
Qb All Star OVR: 43 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 8,807	Re: Knuckle-Ballers I think it would be worth investigating. Perhaps "real-life" refers to the pitches in the in-game repetoire, meaning it would apply to fake/generated players as well. I'm thinking the game is giving these guys extra pitches to round out their arsenal. But I could be wrong... wouldn't be the first time.

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