MLB 12: The Show

[Cody]

that was the first year i owned this game. bought my ps3 and the show that year

Are you playing any offline with the Indians?

 

[FirstTimer]

The face work on the Cubs at least is amazing.

 

[Maynard]

Are you playing any offline with the Indians?

i will as soon as i can get the opening lineups set after it advances to the regular season

 

[Goober]

I'll let you know tonight.

From nothing but reading about them at OS. I'd say they are C+ to solid B.

Some of the mistakes are just terrible. Wrong numbers. Guys absolutely sucking that shouldn't. Potentials being off(Javier Baez being a B not an A when he's universally seen as a stud 'spect) etc. Just seems liek some of these guys sign up to edit them with no real clue about the team.

Little stuff anyone should be able to get right(like numbers being right or wrong) seems off at times.

This sounds pretty homeristic to me.

Minor league ball has him as a B level prospect:
http://www.minorleagueball.com/2012/1/6/2688854/chicago-cubs-top-20-prospects-for-2012
Baseball Prospects has him at 4/5 stars:
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15574

#61 on Baseball America's list.
#95 on Keith Law's list.

The consensus sure doesn't sound like an A level prospect to me. I think they got it right with a B.

 

[Goober]

Well yeah FT is being a homer.

But each team is given a couple A prospects. So even if the farm system sucks they still will have some. Usually Top 5 prospects in farm system get the A potential rating.

Always gotta go 1 letter grade up with The Show potential scale and websites.

Why should every team have a few A prospects. Not every farm system is equal. Just because a player is the best prospect in the White Sox's system, doesn't make him an A prospect; because lets me honest he probably wouldn't be on most teams top 10.

There's no point in trying to balance each teams system so they're equal, each major league teams ratings aren't equal. Why should the farms be? This is like how in the old Madden games, every team would have their first round pick in the first draft, even though some teams had traded away the pick in the prior draft. Simply retarded, parity for no reason.

Bottom line, Javier Baez isn't an A prospect, he's still in rookie ball..

 

[FirstTimer]

This sounds pretty homeristic to me.

Minor league ball has him as a B level prospect:
http://www.minorleagueball.com/2012/1/6/2688854/chicago-cubs-top-20-prospects-for-2012
Baseball Prospects has him at 4/5 stars:
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15574

#61 on Baseball America's list.
#95 on Keith Law's list.

The consensus sure doesn't sound like an A level prospect to me. I think they got it right with a B.

Well yeah FT is being a homer.

Not really.

On the game Rizzo is an "A". Jackson is pretty well regarded as an A as well. Baez is ranked ahead of one or both of those guys by some sites. I think one rating has Rizzo as a 60 on the 80 scale, Baez as a 65.

Relative to where Baez ranks with two other A's in the game. Baez is an A.

Bottom line, Javier Baez isn't an A prospect, he's still in rookie ball..

Wrong.

But whatever.

Easy for you to say when you have like 5 A's on the Brewers farm team in thos roster.

:yao:

 

[ryne candy]

is an A prospect IRL the same as an A prospect in the game? I wonder if they have simulated 5-10 years down the line to see how they develop. If an A prospect in the game always becomes a stud...not too sure about that.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

I went ahead and started again. This time I added the injuries to Upton, Fuld and Farnsworth manually.

I go CBC with the closer role anyway, so it just means that Joel Peralta and Fernando Rodney will likely see more action in high leverage situations, along with JP Howell.

Jennings moves to CF till Upton is back. Bradon Guyer was brought up from Durham and Elliot Johnson was also brought up from Durham. Based off of that, I have the most versatile roster I think I have ever assembled. Almost everyone plays 3+ positions. Sean Rodriguez plays them all except for catcher lol.

 

[Goober]

Not really.

On the game Rizzo is an "A". Jackson is pretty well regarded as an A as well. Baez is ranked ahead of one or both of those guys by some sites. I think one rating has Rizzo as a 60 on the 80 scale, Baez as a 65.

Relative to where Baez ranks with two other A's in the game. Baez is an A.






Wrong.

But whatever.

Easy for you to say when you have like 5 A's on the Brewers farm team in thos roster.

:yao:

I would argue that Rizzo is the one incorrectly ranked, not Baez. And the same for the Brewer's prospects, that's a bad farm system right now.

 

[Goober]

Blame SCEA for that. You have to give Baez that A potential rating. If he doesn't get it someone else will who doesn't equal the A potential.

None of the Cubs prospects = A Potential but they have to go to someone and with Baez being Top 5 he deserves the A potential in the Cubs farm system.

The operation sports guys are the ones changing the rosters for these prospects. They can get rid of the A potential players if not needed, no? It's ridiculous to think that there are 150 "A" prospects in MLB right now, just not realistic.

 

[FirstTimer]

Maynard.

25 Man rosters are out

OSFM ST 25MAN in the vault

 

[RyanLeaf16]

Typical game of The Show for me. I am down 3-1 in the late innings against Boston. I let up a 2-run HR with 2 outs and go into the 9th down 5-1, and of course, in the top half of the 9th inning, I score 3 runs to lose 5-4.

FUCK YOU DAVID ORTIZ!!!

 

[Maynard]

downloaded that 25 man roster. they do stick and seem pretty accurate to me.
curious if anyone knows how the injuries are this year. is the consensus to lower the injury slider for franchise?

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Got called up to AAA, got pretty hot batting .365.

Then one night of drinking and playing, dragged it down to .240, probably about to get sent back to AA

 

[Maynard]

no alcohol in the clubhouse

 

[FirstTimer]

What's everyone using for sliders/difficulty

 

[spiker]

I play out of the box sliders against the CPU. All-Star hitting and pitching.

 

[RyanLeaf16]

What's everyone using for sliders/difficulty

Pretty much default sliders. I am done with tweaking sliders. I stopped that this year with Madden and it made life so much easier and the game more fun.

I find that default plays pretty good. The only change I made was to reliever stamina. I lowered it and that was it.

Also, I tried timing and zone hitting this year and both pissed me off. I went back to analog this morning and liked it much better. Overall, my settings look like this:

Hitting: All-Star/Analog
Pitching: All-Star/Classic

 

[spiker]

I think part of the popularity of this game is that it plays so well out of the box. Take a series like Madden where you have to tweak the shit out of it to get a playable game. Who wants to do that? MLB is plug and play and it feels great.

 

[Lanteri]

I play on HOF pitching and hitting using PsychoBulk's sliders.