Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Concerned about more pitcher domination in H2H for "average" players in early MLB22

So I had been a little worried about this but the Devin Williams reveal has tipped me over the edge.

By average I mean us great unwashed masses - I'm 51 years old, last year was my first year of The Show, on XBox. I didn't play any H2H until basically June (learning game plus server disaster) so I missed the "early game." Ended up as about a 720-740ish RS player with batting averages around .200, lots of 2-1 or 1-0 RS games on All-Star in Shippett almost all my runs on homers off rare mistake pitches. Stringing three singles in a row almost unthinkable.

  1. Everybody knows how to use pinpoint now
  2. Everybody knowing how to dot with Pinpoint is now combined with early game hitters with low Contact and massive platoon splits (Please, "Contact doesn't matter" people, spare me the nonsense).
  3. I don't think nerfing high breaking balls by making them inaccurate is enough to nerf Pinpoint and I don't think losing 1 mph off outlier (And probably putting it on fewer pitchers) will be enough either.
  4. Clear we are going to get some dominant LHP early with Big Unit, Dontrelle, etc. to go along with the dominant RHP; if DH isn't in the game it's hard to platoon more than three positions.
  5. You don't need that many dominant, easily obtainable pitchers to have them be the ones you see all the time.
  6. Shippett has been nerfed and will be combined with lower power numbers in the early game.

We haven't seen any individual pitch control/break numbers so maybe those are all terrible and will save us. But in the Tech Test I didn't really see any evidence that the vast majority of players with any experience at all couldn't still dot at will with Pinpoint.



Submitted by Strategydude | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

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