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JimBlaine

April 15, 2007 at 04:22AM View BBCode

Thanks for answer on outfield defense. Do you have flyball distribution to outfielders anywhere? I assume the CF makes the most plays. However, I'd be curious as to whether the LF or RF makes more plays so I know where to put my weakest fielder.

I think this is a great improvement.
frankiefiveo76

April 15, 2007 at 03:14PM View BBCode

Where can I go to see this beta season information? Is it viewable to all team owners?
barterer2002

April 15, 2007 at 03:17PM View BBCode

http://beta.simdynasty.com/indexin.jsp

You'll need to log in as betauser password betauser

This will let you into the Cincinnati team and you can view around the league.
Admin

April 15, 2007 at 04:01PM View BBCode

Jim - I have data on that, but it's not in the sim yet. It's been a long time since i originally programmed this part of the sim, so I can't remember where the original numbers for this came from. I'll have to check the distributions.

Tyson
lvnwrth

April 15, 2007 at 04:36PM View BBCode

Originally posted by max_fischer
Originally posted by barterer2002
Tyson, I'm noticing in the beta testing that there is a lot more minus than plus.


Maybe SD owners are just used to playing subpar defensive players?

Tyson, I think this improvement has the potential to be fantastic. Thanks.


Granted, Max. And how does that explain my second baseman who is B+ range, A+ arm, leads the league's 2b in RF, DP, A, TC...and is the worst defensive player on my team, at minus 5?
BigMacAttack

April 15, 2007 at 06:24PM View BBCode

Where can we find team defensive stats? Or is that just in beta right now?
JimBlaine

April 15, 2007 at 08:04PM View BBCode

Thanks Tyson, please let me know when you find it. I've been looking around the internet. Looks like LF handles more balls than RF but can't tell yet if that is related just to putouts on flyballs or also incorporates basehits.
barterer2002

April 15, 2007 at 08:06PM View BBCode

BigMac its just in beta until May
BigMacAttack

April 15, 2007 at 08:20PM View BBCode

Thanks Bart. I am really looking forward to seeing how this affects things
Casius

April 16, 2007 at 03:25AM View BBCode

No questions; just a comment. I think these changes could make things even more exciting.
Bone-Scorpion

April 16, 2007 at 06:19AM View BBCode

When do errors come into play for range. It should be done after the +/- is done since players with good range make occasional errors that bad fielders dont get too.
hayward

April 16, 2007 at 11:19AM View BBCode

Originally posted by Casius
No questions; just a comment. I think these changes could make things even more exciting.


I second that. This is awesome news!!
Closer

April 16, 2007 at 11:51AM View BBCode

Ditto.
Admin

April 16, 2007 at 01:05PM View BBCode

Jim - thanks to ScooterPie's suggestion, I've been working with Retrosheets MLB data and can run queries against a database I setup. So I can lookup this kind of stuff now based on real data. Just got it setup last week though, so it'll take some time to change all the little things I want to change/verify.

Bone - that is essentially how it works.

Tyson
saltluver

April 16, 2007 at 07:30PM View formatted

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Maybe I missed it at the beginning of this thread, but is +/- mostly affected by infielder's range as compared with arm? Or are they averaged together to determine ability?
Admin

April 16, 2007 at 08:38PM View BBCode

For C/2B/SS/3B, it will be a bit of both, but weighted more towards range.

For OF & 1B it is nearly all range.

Tyson
saltluver

April 17, 2007 at 12:28AM View BBCode

Will you therefore weight improves with arm/range like you have contact/power to reflect importance to players?

Originally posted by Admin
For C/2B/SS/3B, it will be a bit of both, but weighted more towards range.

For OF & 1B it is nearly all range.

Tyson
SAT

April 17, 2007 at 02:29AM View BBCode

Tyson,

Will there be something in our manager choices to to have ABE make late inning defensive changes?
staceyk

April 17, 2007 at 03:33AM View BBCode

Originally posted by SAT
Tyson,

Will there be something in our manager choices to to have ABE make late inning defensive changes?


It is already there on the "Substitutions page" of Manager Preferences.
Admin

April 17, 2007 at 03:36AM View BBCode

saltluver - I'm not sure I follow you. Arm & range are already bundled if that's what you mean.

Tyson
Admin

April 17, 2007 at 01:39PM View BBCode

One more wrinkle. OF Arm will play a part in changing some doubles into singles. I'm going to use that as a way to rebalance things because of the extra doubles added by poor 1B/3B defense.

Tyson
rnznsmn

April 17, 2007 at 04:23PM View BBCode

Tyson,
One other question - I'm assuming that for players who are out of position, their +/- effects will be based on their reduced arm/range scores based on the OOP penalty?

Will there be any other impact to players being out of position under the +/- system?
Admin

April 17, 2007 at 04:39PM View BBCode

We haven't changed anything with the out of position penalties. They will affect arm and range in the same way as before.

Tyson
Closer

April 17, 2007 at 04:50PM View BBCode

Tyson- One more wrinkle. OF Arm will play a part in changing some doubles into singles. I'm going to use that as a way to rebalance things because of the extra doubles added by poor 1B/3B defense.


Nice touch.
ShaggySanchez

April 17, 2007 at 04:53PM View BBCode

Tyson
I think all of this sounds great and is a huge step in the right direction for the game. I was just looking around in beta and noticed the Game Log on the players card. That is a pretty sweet new addition will it be coming over in the next changes in May.

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