And, these dramatic, overreacting changes (going both ways) by admin are why I stopped playing GD. Until now, HBD hadn't done the same. After all, there are few things I've seen done well at GD that I would want the devs in any way emulating for HBD. Encouraging things like these ludicrous, dramatic, instantaneous changes, you may as well be encouraging the GD devs to enter a significant number of worlds, and consistantly win the championships of the game they wrote.I'd humbly like to request that if HBD developers want to change how a player plays, they should do so by 10% or less, and if they feel more changes are warranted, change them another 10%. 35% decreases in a snap of a finger on a DYNASTY GAME that I personally have been playing for over 3! years (WITH THE SAME PLAYERS) are ridiculous.  

Let me propose a different, better measure here that isolates some of the "manager choice" components. Instead of looking at "HR/Game", which is influeced to a very large degree by things like lineup choices or early season player creation with too many 90+ power guys, let's look at league leading totals.

If we compare league leading totals and find that they are roughly in line with ML totals, then the power guys are hitting the right amount of homers. If that's happening and we still see an abnormally high overall HR/G rate, we can assume that this is due to the "chicks love the long ball" factor.

The Admin handling of this is what always bothered me.

They said that this was impacting top end power guys, and would only impact homers.

In reality it seemed to impact most players. Even low split guys with power in the 60s that I kept for fielding seemed to drop. It impacted all aspects of hitting.

The fact that they now are pulling back, after much complaints about the new system, seems to indicate that it did things they never intended.

I think both changes are good. There was way too many homers being hit, they overcompensated in the other direction, now they are making another change. Even after this change we might see more changes. Hopefully they will eventually get it right.

They should be changing SB too. I am seeing the top end players get 120+ steals.

I thought I read that SB% was next

Quote: Originally Posted By swamphawk22 on 1/27/2010
The Admin handling of this is what always bothered me.

They said that this was impacting top end power guys, and would only impact homers.

In reality it seemed to impact most players. Even low split guys with power in the 60s that I kept for fielding seemed to drop. It impacted all aspects of hitting.

The fact that they now are pulling back, after much complaints about the new system, seems to indicate that it did things they never intended.

Unfortunately swamp, your guys will still suck because they aren't major league baseball players. The suckiness of your players has been debated and proven, and has nothing to do with the change in power numbers back a little ways.

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If you could care less why bother posting? Your post implies some level of care on your part. Not posting would be the equivalent of not caring.

Comprehension isn't your strong suit is it?

Quote: Originally Posted By timf on 1/28/2010If you could care less why bother posting? Your post implies some level of care on your part. Not posting would be the equivalent of not caring.

Quote: Originally Posted By mitchrapp on 1/28/2010
Comprehension isn't your strong suit is it?

He needs someone to care about him, mitch. Won't you be his pen pal? He tried me and I blew him off.

Quote: Originally Posted By leppykahn on 1/27/2010

This was always a player creation problem. In the early seasons (up to about 8) there were WAY too many players with 90 + power. I noted this to admin, and they seem to have limited that to about 3 a draft.

If you other ******* were patient, it would have fixed itself just like that.

But instead, the solution was to murder teams based around power. My Colorado team had every single player lose over 33% of their homeruns, AS AN IMMEDIATE ADJUSTMENT. Some of the guys hit less than 50% of their career averages despite not being in significant decline.

And some of you think it's a good thing to just go out and trash one type of player, leaving all others alone. If the game were really hitting too many home runs, taking a net % of everyone's HRs would be a far better option than just assuming teams built around power all had a bunch of roid heads, and that they (only) needed to be nerfed. In the MLB, according to many observations, guys hitting 40+ HR weren't the only ones using steroids.

This is one of the problems and frankly 3 per draft is probably still way too many. I think it would be interesting if people would post how many of these guys there are in each league in both ML and AAA. It would also be interesting to see just how many are really way below average for the position they are listed at. I am betting that A) There are far more of these players than people realize and B) Less than 25% are significantly below average fielders and fewer than 10% are horrible fielders.

Quote: Originally Posted By tropicana on 1/27/2010

Quote: Originally Posted By swamphawk22 on 1/27/2010

The Admin handling of this is what always bothered me.

They said that this was impacting top end power guys, and would only impact homers.

In reality it seemed to impact most players. Even low split guys with power in the 60s that I kept for fielding seemed to drop. It impacted all aspects of hitting.

The fact that they now are pulling back, after much complaints about the new system, seems to indicate that it did things they never intended.

Unfortunately swamp, your guys will still suck because they aren't major league baseball players. The suckiness of your players has been debated and proven, and has nothing to do with the change in power numbers back a little ways

My guys were playing well, that means you proof is done.

Admin is changing back, so my guys will be good again.

Looks like you get to be wrong twice in one post!

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