Well somebody had to do it.

I think it's the other way around. But for a team to be successful IMO, you need good contact hitters and a power hitter or two.

Nope HR's are going back up so thsoe of us who don't have 5 or 6 guys with 35 contact and 98 power are getting screwed right.

I guess you better get some of those guys then. Of course I haven't seen very successful team with those type of players throughout.

So mitch let me get this straight. Are you saying is that if you build a balanced team with a couple of contact hitters a bit of power, good fielding solid starters and a deep pen you don't need to start stupid threads claiming your team got screwed because WIS made the game more realistic by cutting down on homeruns!!

I think we need to look at physics. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

1 Action. Steroid Era is over.

2 impact. HRs went down too much

3 Reaction. New update fixes that

4 Impact. Goes to far back and will be close to old system.

By home runs went down too much you mean that they actually aproached the most ever hit in MLB history right?

More so. I had a guy hit 81 one year. He's a great player, ratings across the board. But 81 is too much.

This is more like:

1. "Steroid Era" - Misnamed because pitcher fatigue and 'tard leagues playing good hitters out of position also contribute to outrageous home run totals

2. "Overreaction to the so-called 'Steroid Era'" - Admin listens to the Chicken Littles complaining about "Too many homers" and artificially dilutes the effectiveness of hitters with 80-100 power ratings.

3. "Manager adjustment to the 'Overreaction'" - Managers take Rob Deer and Gorman Thomas out of the lineup because his homers aren't worth his bad fielding , and take lousy fielding, mis-positioned hitters out of the lineup in favor of good fielders and shift everyone down a notch in the fielding hierarchy. In other words, the thumper (who isn't thumping as much) playing 1B gets replaced in the lineup by a slick fielding SS, and the hitter playing SS moves to 3B, the 3B goes to RF, the RF goes to LF, and the LF goes to 1B.

Net result of the Manager adjustment = MUCH fewer homers and more singles because we've now replaced Rob Deer with Omar Vizquel (and better fielding across the board)

4. Now we have the "Overreaction to the drastic unforeseen homer drop-off because of the Manager adjustment" where 80-100 power rating guys will essentially get re-boosted, and make their way back to playability in a lineup. Of course, ADMIN makes all these decisions in a vacuum, and assumes all other variables remain constant, and we'll have yet more unforeseen consequences to the re-boost.

Followed by another overreaction and so on and so on...

So theoretically, after infinite adjustments, we'll end up at some HR amount between what it was and what it is.

All I know is I had a handful of players from the previous regime that I deemed useless turds after the update who might just become useful again.

Gotta love the 14/94/42/58/93 guys!!!

I'm glad I didn't release mine.

Why are all the guys high eye?

I had a guy hit 59+ HRs 4 out of 5 years

45/95/42/45/37

Yeah that's realistic. Wow so glad we are going back to the days where 55+ HR's was common and boring.

Quote: Originally Posted By crickett13 on 1/26/2010By home runs went down too much you mean that they actually aproached the most ever hit in MLB history right?

By down too much I was refering to WIS saying that it went down too much!