How do I have only my speedsters attempt steals and attempt ever time they are on base

You can't. There are no settings for that. This is a feature that I wish they would add.

I wouldn’t have individual base stealing but I would love to add more options.

like: don’t steal bases with 2 out.
or: don’t steal 2nd with a runner on 3rd.

the rest I’m completely happy with. Just build your team to steal bases. It’s what I always do and it works well. Then if you are in the NL set to ‘aggressive’ and not ‘very aggressive’ unless you want your pitchers to be picked off.

+1 bripat42
+1 hockey1984

Also note that if you're at all interested in simulating "real life"... and I still see guys asking to have financials and player contracts reflect current changes to the CBA... if you're talking about base stealing, you're not dealing with today's game. Base stealing is so 1980s.

If anything, this game has actually back doored its way into reflecting real life, in that you now get basically two or three teams that run at all, and the rest pretty much don't bother.

If I have a team built with a handful of fast guys with good BsR....I'll just crank up the steals and aggressiveness, and take the bad with the good. You're still not gonna see your slow catcher trying to steal much, etc. Or not enough that it bothers me. I've got a team now in Roy Hobbs (The Anaheim Aces) that has three guys with 90+ speed, three with 80+ speed, a couple with 70+ and a couple with 60+. I have that team set to aggressive on stealing and base running both. Sometimes I will slide them to very aggressive.

My two best hitters are catchers (one of them I just DH, essentially). They are not fast, and they don't attempt to be. They were a combined 0-for-8 for me last year on SB. Through 36 games this year, they are a combined 0-for-1. It's not gonna kill you over the long haul to "give away" 8 outs over a year. Especially when they are guys who are otherwise raking and slamming the ball all over the field.

As a team - through 36 games - we lead the majors in SB with 53 and additionally have 64 doubles and 7 triples. If your team is built right, the slow guys won't hurt you enough to offset what you're getting out of the fast guys.

For base running aggressiveness I'm always very aggressive and build my teams around it. Occasionally my guys get caught trying to stretch it but its not enough for me to want to change it.

Posted by hockey1984 on 1/6/2022 2:16:00 PM (view original):
For base running aggressiveness I'm always very aggressive and build my teams around it. Occasionally my guys get caught trying to stretch it but its not enough for me to want to change it.

I have been dabbling into the speed department a bit with two of my nine teams. What I have noticed is that the success rate sinks when you have somebody in your lineup that gets on base .400+, but has low baserunning/speed. I know that is likely a captain obvious comment, but man! I have experimented with aggressive and very aggressive. The very aggressive setting did not affect my pitchers at all, even in the NL. However, it certainly affected guys like Kendrick and Bowen. I have an absolute speed demon. Then I have many others that are pretty dang good on the basepaths like O'Neil, Guerrero, Miller, Hitchcock, Bortnick, and Hyun. Despite this, Bowen and Kendrick are killing my mojo. I can't take them out of the lineup because they are such good hitters. I am thinking of moving the settings back down to average.

Posted by dedelman on 1/21/2022 8:38:00 PM (view original):

Posted by hockey1984 on 1/6/2022 2:16:00 PM (view original):
For base running aggressiveness I'm always very aggressive and build my teams around it. Occasionally my guys get caught trying to stretch it but its not enough for me to want to change it.

I have been dabbling into the speed department a bit with two of my nine teams. What I have noticed is that the success rate sinks when you have somebody in your lineup that gets on base .400+, but has low baserunning/speed.

Also, you start to get really bad numbers if you have a guy with high speed and low baserunning. Also kinda obvious.