MLB 13 The Show Title Update 1.18 Available Now, Details Included

[Farmer joe]

Ok so patch downloaded with no problems. I figured I'd on to the sample size by simulating a season in franchise mode. I picked the Yanks since they have a bunch of old players. I also kept track of a couple of other good older players from the league. I will also post up league leader in K and a few other stats to see if the wild season stats I've been reading about have been toned down.

I am not the biggest geek on baseball numbers, so I'll just post them up and let you guys discuss to see if anything seems better after the patch (at least on this 1 franchise sim test)

I just skipped and chose to End ST, since I don't usually play it at all. No stats dropped in the handful of players I'm watching. Now here's the list. The first line is what they started with and the 2nd line is what they ended the season with, as far as attributes are concerned. I only chose a handful of attributes to really watch. Sorry that the info is kind of messy, but I did this real quick to see if I saw any difference in regression.

Ichiro Suzuki Age:39
OVR:89 Ended season at 71!
CON R/L: 86/80 VIS:84 DUR: 99 FLD:93 ARM:97/91 SPD:90
71/65 79 84 78 82/75 75


Derek Jeter Age:38
OVR:90 Ended season at 70!
CON R/L: 71/99 VIS:84 DUR:97 FLD:82 ARM:79/64 SPD:63
56/85 70 82 67 64/48 49


Alex Rodriguez Age:37
OVR:88 Ended season at 69!
CON R/L: 72/72 POW R/L: 70/64 VIS: 63 DUR: 64 SPD: 52
57/58 55/50 49 51 38


Andy Pettitte Age:40
OVR:87 Ended Season at 69!!! Coming out of the pen, even though he had a 13-4 record!
STM: 89 H/K/BB/HR: 66/66/74/69 CLT/CON/VEL/BRK: 69/72/54/91
76 52/51/60/48 55/58/40/77


Ryan Dempster Age:35
OVR: 87 Ended season at 82 with an 8-9 record :/
STM: 88 H/K/BB/HR: 64/72/64/61 CLT/CON/VEL/BRL: 67/61/64/93
83 60/67/59/57 63/59/62/91


David Ortiz Age:37
OVR:91 Ended season at 75
CON R/L: 84/70 POW R/L: 92/66 VIS: 70 DUR: 77 SPD: 9
71/57 79/53 58 64 0

Tim Hudson Age: 37
OVR: 89 Ended season at 71! with an 9-10 record
STM: 93 H/K/BB/HR: 68/52/76/73 CLT/CON/VEL/BRK: 60/59/64/81
78 54/38/61/59 45/45/50/68

Paul Konerko Age: 36
OVR: 94 Ended season at 82 with 38HR 108RBI and .313 AVG!!! come on now!
CON R/L: 82/80 POW R/L: 77/73 VIS: 76 SPD: 13
73/71 68/63 67 4

Regression fixed? Obviously not. Dempster is the only one who took the least hit, and that's because he's right at the 35 year old mark. If he were 36, he probably would've have declined 10 more points OVR. It makes some of these guys unusable, even after good or decent seasons. They suffer a loss at fielding and arm str and acc, lose a lot of speed, and lose a lot of their bat. Pettitte even had a really good year and still ended up regressing so much that he had to come out of the pen.

League Leaders:
AL AVG (Top 12 are at .298 or higher)
Miggy .333 (Also lead
Konerko .313
Mauer .313

NL AVG (Top 12 are .290 or higher)
Goldschmidt .313
Scutaro .307
Ruggiano .305

AL HR
Miggy 43
Bautista 41
Napoli 40
Ortiz 40

NL HR
Headley 34
Stanton 34
Braun 33

AL RBI
Miggy 131
Ortiz 114
Encarnacion 113

NL RBI
Headley 104
Brice 104
Votto 100

AL ERA
Peavy 2.44
Dickey 2.93 (Ended season at 75 OVR)
Floyd 3.01

NL ERA
Bumgarner 2.45
Luebke 2.46
Strasburg 2.54

AL SO
Darvish 240
Sale 211
Verlander 208
Matt Moore 203
Morrow 201

NL SO
Strasburg 252
Chapman 219
G Gonzalez 216
Lincecum 203
Lynn + Hamels 197

Looking at these stats and comparing to some that were post pre-patch, it seems that things have been balanced out better. I see better ERA and SO numbers here. Also the Offensive numbers seem to be better balanced. Of course, this is just 1 test sample.
Regression system still sucks though.

[js3512]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ferweezy

Their overall rating drops six points by the All-Star break. These hall of fame type players that fall off dramatically. If you over 35 you would drop dramatically. The drops are not random they all seem like they all happen at the same time it doesn't matter the who's the player. Regression is extremely flawed. I wish they had regression system like Pro evolution soccer. Only thing that should drop dramatically is speed, durability and power.

Says who? Look up the stats, 35 is like a brick wall for many, many players and it's not just speed, durability and power they're losing.

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[Majingir]

Quote:

4. Toronto Stadium - There was a large section of seating that appeared grey instead of blue (behind 1st or 3rd base). This was reported with a frequency of 100%. The art files have been changed to reflect the proper seat colors. Twitter feeds fix - Twitter feeds should now show up with today's Tweets # New telemetry TSD file

Sure, you called it "Toronto Stadium"(it's Rogers Centre...), but I'll take it, cause great to see that this has finally been fixed, after being incorrect for 2 years!

And nice that twitter feeds working too!


So 2 of the 3 things I really wanted to be fixed did get fixed, so that's great! Surprised nothing about sound stuttering was mentioned in the OP, guess that'll happen in next update since this update for the most part was about bigger issues(like online and pitch delay)

[jeremym480]

I was thinking about adjusting the older players up a little after they regress, but after seeing Farmer Joe's post I may just leave it alone. I mean if the regressing player is still contributing then I don't really care what they are rated.

I would be interested in seeing how the do the next season before making any final decisions though.

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[Heroesandvillains]

Will the sim-rebalancing take effect in my current, non-patched Franchise? Or will I need to start things over?

[jmik58]

Is it possible that the reason for the drastic drop in regression for players over 36 is because they're currently rated too high in the game since they came that way with the stock rosters?

Under this system, rarely (if ever?) will a player be in the 90's like Ichiro or A-Rod, etc. at their current age. It seems to me that as you get farther into a franchise that the regression won't seem like such a jolt.

[mcmax3000]

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that the one big issue I keep running into was fixed, at least according to the list (haven't had a chance to play yet myself)...

When using the analog pitching, and broadcast camera (possibly others, but that's what I play with), the stat overlays that pop out from the side of the score box in the top left keep covering up the top of the analog pitching meter, so you either have to pitch blindly, or stand on the mound waiting for them to disappear.

[mvb34]

Quote: Originally Posted by bwiggy33

And now people can stop with the "Is it worth it" threads. No other games produce patches this quickly with that much stuff fixed in them. Of course they get the patch out a week before opening day to. Thank you SCEA!

I'm willing to bet they knew of these issue prior to release of game..