MLB 14 The Show OSFM Hybrid Roster - V2 Released

[WaitTilNextYear]

Slightly off topic...

I have decided to post my sliders that I use with the Hybrid rosters for my long-term franchise in a new thread. ETA is at some point in the upcoming week. No, I don't know exactly what day yet so please no PMs etc.. about that. I will post it in the current gen forum so now you know where to look.

The reason I am changing my mind about sharing sliders...well actually there are several reasons.

1. I have had time to do a lot more testing since 2 or 3 weeks ago. I am getting good results for really hard to perfect aspects of the game such as strike frequencies, 1st strike %, batted ball data etc. I am more comfortable putting the sliders out there for human consumption at this point.

2. People seem really confused about if they need to use a certain slider set for a certain roster set...and these sliders have been unequivocally developed using Hybrid rosters so there will be no confusion. No square peg into round hole scenario.

3. Let's face it, there are 3-4 popular sliders sets for MLB 14 and that's about it for this year. With several different roster sets, about 3 or 4 different ways to hit, and 3 or 4 different ways to pitch, that's just not enough variety out there for everyone. And 75+% of people are unwilling or unable to develop their own, so there's definitely a need.

Just a heads up on what to look out for, I play HoF on pitching (meter) and All Star on hitting (zone), so if you also play with general settings similar to this, the upcoming set should be more applicable you. If you do pulse/analog/classic/zone+analog/timing, I will just stop you right there and say, no, I don't know if my sliders will be any use to you--you have to test it out and see.

Sorry for the off topic...

[Mrmagoo]

Thanks. Glad you decided to share them! While I play on AS classic pitching, I will still give them a shot. You can never have to many options out there!!

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[bigleaguechew]

Is there going to be another update with more transactions? Thanks!

[Padgoi]

I'm going to take back what I said before. I apologize as I wasn't using the suggested sliders posted earlier and now I definitely see a huge difference in the way the game plays. I hope it holds up.

[teeds]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigleaguechew

Is there going to be another update with more transactions? Thanks!

Yes, but it doesn't look like there will be an update before the all-star break at the rate I'm going. I'm correcting numerous errors throughout and going a division at a time. This includes fixing faces and adjusting equipment for minor leaguers and a lot more.

If anyone is interested in helping it could probably get done sooner. I particularly need a good "face" guy to go through teams and fix appearances but there's other things you can help with too. The Cardinals are one team that need some work. There's a particular process I'm going through, it's basically a sweep of the league one division at a time to improve accuracy (ht/wt, age, equipment, faces, players at proper levels, minor league ratings, 40 man rosters, positions, etc.)

[Willard76]

I just wanted to post a comment on sliders/skill levels/offensive numbers etc

I currently am 7 games into my regular season with my Blue Jays franchise and have seen several posts that don't correspond with what I have seen both in my franchises and testing before release.

Here are some observations and suggestions

I am using the suggested sliders that I posted, I use Dynamic hitting and pitching, timing hitting and meter pitching. I actually was seeing too much offense at first and also very good pitching. Now that the system has adjusted my skill level and the AI has adjusted to me, I still am pitching well - I always have in this game since 07 and my hitting has taken a bit of a beating but inly because I was very aggressive. I rarely walk in the past but have realized I need to play the game now similar to how I would IRL.

Aside from that to comment of this vs OSFM

OSFM teams were done on a very broad system of ratings - some guys don't even use Knights ratings values. When I did the rerate you could definitely feel biased in some cases or a general guess at some ratings. I don't like how some of my own prospects came out numbers wise and I did the Blue Jays but when I see how they are turning out now in the game I am ok with it now.

All I am saying is - this roster is aimed at giving real life gameplay - you have to have unbiased real to life expectations if you want this roster to work for you as well as use sliders properly to allow the rosters to work

Willard

[Padgoi]

I know I've wavered on this in the past few days, but now that I'm using the suggested sliders, I too am seeing a bit too much human offense. I think having contact at 7 and power at 6 coupled with CPU pitcher control at 3 and CPU strike frequency at 3 is causing way too many meatballs that get crushed. I'm still working on this, but those 4 especially need adjusting it would seem.

[MattFromTheWire]

So what roster should we use for our franchise. I see 4 of them in the vault. I read earlier to download version 2.1A but I don't see it online.

The one with pitch edits, beard edits, discipline edits.

Thanks.