OleCranky's Franchise settings & Trade discussion (debate)

[olecrankygamer]

Hi all

Things are slow now, especially with the lockout so I decided to just throw in my Franchise in here

If you want to see videos it is under OleCrankyGamer on Youtube

I use 32 team control by using essentially the same User Settings except I make things AUTO on the mode specific tab and then name it CPU and assign it to all teams except the Orioles who I am controlling

I tried to make a more 70s and 80s type game, lower Ks, less walks and HRs, more 3bs & higher Averages and balls in play.

My 'Storyline' is something that could solve real baseball's mess as well. A less tightly wound ball with higher seams and raise the mound an inch. Not only would that lower HRs but would be less taxing on pitcher's arms, thereby not having some of the best 'characters' and personalities of baseball on the shelf with Tommy John for almost 2 yrs

Anyway

As I stated, tried to put AUTO for CPU but after a month, found their AI was ludicrous with lienups,rotations and roster moves...so I anally retentively made those moves

THEN the worse happened.

On the cusp of 500 Hrs, the AI of Detroit traded Miguel Cabrera to the Yankees for Single A 63 OVR SP Beck Way despite the Yankees having Edwin Encarnoncion hitting .333 with 7 HRs

and

The AI actually traded MY player Cerdric Mullins to ATL for Charlie Morton and a AAA RP

TRADE SLIDER TO THE LEFT!

Well, until the offseason, and I can still reverse bad trades, but trade deadline is not to be trifled with

Ok so first my setup

I used Cycloniac's TrueSim rosters based off Ridin's Minor set
I lowered most pitchers velocities by 2 mph and raised their control and lowered their K rate
I raised many hitters Plate Vision by 4 and lowered their Discipline by 4
I edited many SPs hitting as

THERE IS NO DH ---It is an abomination!!
Kidding...but I go by the adage 9 players field and hit

Oh and I also 86th the runner on 2nd rule

One issue I had with Cycloniac's roster and it is probably more the game itself...is I had 3x as many hitters than Pitchers get injured...so halfway into the season I made sure most pitchers durability was in the 60s and 50s with very few in the 90s
I edited Speed based on Fangraphs therefore Tim Locastro is ONLY 99 speed and 99 Stealing (but 20 baserunning aggression) and Albert Pujols is slowest at 12 speed

I toyed with stealing and BR aggressiveness with David Peralta as the guinea pig. See...Peralta doesn't steal...BUT he is always among the leaders in Triples

After he stole 12 bases and got caught 12 times by June, I realized my mistake
I think 25 Steal and 50 BR Aggro along with 75 speed fits him. He will get caught stealing but maybe will stretch enough doubles

Having done the roster I edited the settings as such

GAMEPLAY

Hitting difficulty - All-Star
View-- Fish Eye 2 (in order to see runner on 1st)
In Play offense Broadcast
Hitting Interface Directional
All PCI OFF
Guess pitch OFF
Baserunning/Sliding ASSIST
Running Windows OFF

Pitching Difficulty HoF
Pitching Interface Classic
Pitch Feedback Off
Pitching View Broadcast (depending on Stadium,this really varies)
Pitching Ball Marker Off
Pitch Confidence On
Pitch Delay Normal
API Default

Fielding ALL Auto/Markers off and Broadcast
Defensive Shift=manual

Gameplay Style Simulation
Fielding Aids OFF
Strike/Hot Zone OFF
Wind/Warm Up ON

SIDE NOTE- Thinking of taking Warm up off as with injury and the few times I just want to Manage, the menu in the bullpen gets frozen and a fielder will have to pitch to 3 batters (another stupid rule)

Scorebar Display ON
I look away when Sim all other MLB games that day before playing

Pitch Select Display OFF You can use the D pad to see pitches
Swing/Pitch Info/Vibration OFF
Balks/close plays/check swing/injuries/ejections ON

SLIDERS

HUM/CPU Contact 6
HUM/CPU Power 4
HUM/CPU Timing 6
HUM/CPU SP Stamina 6
HUM/CPU Pitch Consistency 4
CPU Manager Hook 3
Fielding errors IF 7
Throwing errors OF 7
Throw errors IF 6
Field errors OF 6

My error sliders are based on New ball = some issues first year

Fielder run speed/Reaction 4

Allows more triples

Baserunner Speed 4

Allows more close plays at 3rd and 2nd

Baserunning steal ability 8

Baserunner Steal Frequency 4 in Apr/May 6 in June/July and 7 onward
My storytelling is that runners started realizing the ball was slower out of the Cs hand as well and MGRs realized HRs were more scarce and they needed to manufacture runs more, especially in AL with no more DH

Injury Frequency 7
Wind I use dice rolls, it changes per game

Trade Freq Had this on 2 for APR/May then 5 on June then 7 on July but after stupid trades and AI trading MY Oriole players, I made it ZERO




Lastly, I have also despised baseball in Spring Training environments and per attendance records, so don't fans (another idiotic modern day MLB decision)

Therefore I changed

Miami Marlins to the Norfolk (VA) Tritons with a great stadium from someone on these boards I believe

Arizona Diamondbacks to Portland (OR) Beavers with my favorite stadium with a huge brick warehouse in CF with THE BEAVERS and some high risk seating on the roof

And the Tampa Bay Rays are the NEW Montreal Expos

The locations allow for the teams to stay in division (We need league customization & relocation in MLB 22)

I know the Orioles have the Norfolk Tides but Tritons is said by all announcers and has a great uniform set on the Vault It was also the best I could get near the Carolinas

That is my long winded read, next post is my manual trades for the deadline

[olecrankygamer]

MY TRADES

Please debate these, criticize them

I am not perfect but I will try to explain more in detail if you want

ALSO, if you want to ask about a team or player(s) in my league....ask away

BTW, my trades with Adam Frazier to SEA and Avisaill Garcia to Tritons(Marlins) were before their real life signings, so I played the Lotto...didn't guess that right though

I am at Sep 1st right now in 2021

ORIOLES

Traded Rp/SP Drew Rom & Hester Kjerstad to CARDINALS for RP Brandon Waddell & RF Jhon Torres
Traded RF Kyle Stowers,CF Greg Allen (off waivers from NYY) & SS Jordan Westburg to ATHLETICS for RF/1B Greg Deichmann,CF Austin Beck & 2b/SS Pete Kozma
Traded SS Freddy Galvis,RP Fernando Abad & RP Eric Hanhold to PIRATES for SS/2B Casey Martin,RP Duane Underwood Jr & RP Blake Weiman
Traded 2B/Utility Pat Valaika (our All star rep),3B Maikel Franco,SP Felix Hernandez,CL Cesar Valdez to PADRES for SS Jorge Mateo,3B/1B/CoF Brian O'Grady,SP Justin Lange & RP Michel Baez
Traded SP Kyle Bradish to REDS for RP/SP/OF Michael Lorenzen MIKEY MUSCLES!
Traded SS Maikol Hernandez to NATIONALS for 2b Josh Harrison
Traded RP Brenan Hanifee and SS/2B Anthony Servideo to TRITONS for Switch pitcher Pat Venditte and SS Devin Hairston

RED SOX

AI TRADES RP Eduard Bazardo,CF Mac Wainwright to PADRES for 2b/SS Ivan Castillo --I let this one stand
AI TRADES CF Gilberto Jimenez, SP Jay Groome to BEAVERS for 2b Andy Young
Traded 3B/2B Michael Chavis to MARINERS for RP Drew Steckenrider

YANKEES

Traded 1b Luke Voit,LF Clint Frazier & RP Lucas Luetge to PADRES for 1b Eric Hosmer,LF Grant Little & RP Nick Burdi
Traded SP Nestor Cortes JR,SS Oswald Peraza & RP Jonathan Loaisiga to ROCKIES for SS Trevor Story,RP Mychal Givens and SP Jon Gray

EXPOS

Traded SS Carlos Colmenarez & 2B Tyler Frank to ROYALS for SS Alcides Escobar and 2B Wilmin Candelario
Traded SS Taylor Walls to CUBS for 2B David Bote
Traded SP Michael Wacha & RP/SP Jalen Beeks to METS for SP Matthew Allen & RP Junior Santos
Traded 1B Dalton Kelly & C Deivy Grullon to BRAVES for 1B/3B Pablo Sandoval & C Jonathan Lucroy
Traded CF Kevin Kiermaier,SP Rich Hill & RP Chaz Roe to GIANTS for CF Steven Duggar,SP Sammy Long & RP Sam Delaplane

BLUE JAYS

Traded SP Anthony Kay,RP Joel Payamps and 1b Rowdy Tellez to TWINS for RF Nelson Cruz,RP Caleb Thielbar & SP Mike Leake

WHITE SOX

Traded SP Jimmy Lambert to RANGERS for SP Kyle Gibson
Traded RF Adam Eaton & 2b Nick Madrigal to METS for RF Michael Conforto & 2b/Utility Jeff McNeill

INDIANS

Traded 3b Gabriel Arias & RP Brad Peacock to RANGERS for 3B Brock Holt & RP/SP Ian Kennedy
Traded CF Jordan Luplow, SP Sam Hentges and SP Cam Hill to METS for CF Pete Crow-Armstrong,SP Drew SMith & SP Marcus Stroman

TIGERS

Traded RP Jose Cisnero,SP Matthew Boyd & LF Boog Powell to CARDINALS for RP Genesis Cabrera,LF Lane Thomas & SP Zack Thompson

ROYALS

Traded 1b/CoF Ryan O'Hearn & RP Holden Capps to DODGERS for 1b Yo****omo Tsutsugo & RP Victor Gonzalez
Traded SS Aliceds Escobar & 2b W.Candelario to EXPOS for SS C.Colmenarez & 2B T.Frank
Traded SP Asa Lacy, RP Andres Sotillet & RF Anderson Miller to NATIONALS for SP Jon LEster, RP Daniel Hudson & RF Kyle Schwarber

TWINS

The above trade to Blue Jays
Traded LF Misael Urbina to METS for LF Cameron Maybin

ASTROS

Traded SS Grae Kessinger, RP Bryan Abreu & CF MYles Straw to BRAVES for RP Will SMith, SS Dansby Swanson & CF Cristian Pache

ANGELS

No trades

ATHLETICS

Above trade to ORIOLES
Traded 1B Frank Schwindel & RP Zach Jackson to CUBS for 1b Jared Young & RP Ryan Tepera
Traded CF Ramon Laureano & RP Argenis Angulo to TRITONS for CF Starling MArte & RP Anthony Bass
Traded CP Trevor Rosenthal, RP Yusmeiro Petit, SS Elijah Tatis & SP Homer BAiley to REDS for RP Cionel Perez, SS Jose Garcia, SP Reiver Sanmartin & SP Vladimir Gutierrez

MARINERS

Traded 2B Tyler Keenan, 1B/OF Jake Bauers & SP George Kirby to PIRATES for 2b Adam Frazier, SP Rick Porcello & RF/1B Phillip Evans

ABove trade to RED SOX

RANGERS

Above trade to Indians
Above trade to White Sox
Traded RF Joey Gallo & SP Tyson Ross to BRAVES for SP Huascar Ynoa & LF Ender Inciarte

BRAVES

Traded LF Marcell Ozuna & RP/SP Jesse Chavez to GIANTS for LF Alex Dickerson & RP Raffi Vizcaino
Above trade to EXPOS
Above trade to RANGERS
Above trade to ASTROS

TRITONS

Above trade to ORIOLES
Above trade to ATHLETICS
Traded RP Yimi GArcia, 3B Brian ANderson & RF Adam Duvall to BREWERS for RP Hunter Strickland, 3B Luis Urias & RF Avisail Garcia


PHILLIES

Traded LF Ryan Cordell, RP JD Hammer, C Rafael Marchan to ROCKIES for LF Matt Kemp, CP Daniel Bard & C Tyler Flowers
Traded LF Andrew McCutchen, RP/SP Ranger Suarez & 2b Casey MArtin to PIRATES for LF Lolo Sanchez, SP Trevor Cahill & SS Ildemaro Vargas
Traded 3b Jake Elmore, SP Spencer Howard & RP Seranthony Dominguez to CUBS for 3B/LF Kris Bryant, CP Craig Kimbrel & SP Trevor Williams

NATIONALS

Above trade to ORIOLES
Above trade to ROYALS
Traded SP Max Scherzer & CF Carlos Tocci to REDS for SP Nick Lodolo & CF Nick Senzel
Traded SS Trea Turner, CP Brad Hand & SP Joan Adon to GIANTS for C Patrick Bailey, SS MArco Luciano & SP Jake Wong

CUBS

Above trade to EXPOS
Above trade to ATHLETICS
Traded SS Javier Baez, RP Andrew Chafin & SP Ryan Jensen to DODGERS for SP Mitch White, RP Brusdar Graterol & 2b Scooter Gennett
Traded 1B Anthony Rizzo & RP Rex Brothers to BEAVERS for 1b/OF Pavin Smith & RP Ben Heller
Above trade to PHILLIES

REDS

Above trade to ORIOLES
Above trade to ATHLETICS
Above trade to NATIONALS

BREWERS

Above trade to TRITONS

PIRATES

Above trade to ORIOLES
Above trade to PHILLIES
Above trade to MARINERS
Traded CF Dustin Fowler, SP Tyler Anderson, 1b Chris Stratton, RP Mason MArtin to BEAVERS for CF Nick Heath, SP Dario Agrazal, 1B/OF Seth Beer & RP JB Bukauskas (what an unfortunate surname in the internet era)

CARDINALS

Above trade to ORIOLES
Above trade to TIGERS
AI Traded RF Lars Nootbaar to PADRES for SP Dinelson Lamet

BEAVERS

Above trade to CUBS
Above trade to PIRATES
Above trade to RED SOX

ROCKIES

Above trade to PHILLIES
Above trade to YANKEES

DODGERS

Above trade to ROYALS
Above trade to CUBS

PADRES

Above trade to ORIOLES
Above trade to YANKEES
Above trade to RED SOX
Above trade to CARDINALS

GIANTS

Above trade to BRAVES
Above trade to EXPOS
Above Trade to NATIONALS