Balks & Passed Balls

[CBeisbol]

Originally Posted by highandoutside

The league totals may come out close to real world, but anyone who plays out all of their games realizes that a tremendous amount of wild pitches occur with runner on 3rd, and there are very few with runners on first or second. Something is clearly off

I just played out an entire September. I did not get that impression.

[BirdWatcher]

Originally Posted by highandoutside

The league totals may come out close to real world, but anyone who plays out all of their games realizes that a tremendous amount of wild pitches occur with runner on 3rd, and there are very few with runners on first or second. Something is clearly off

There is someone here who goes by the moniker NoOne and I am not him, but apparently I am also not anyone, as I play all of my games out and do not at all have that impression.

Come to think of it we also have an Anyone among us. Perhaps that is the person you are referring to in the above statement.

[Syd Thrift]

I honestly can’t think of a wild pitch I saw with a runner on 3rd in games I’ve played out recently. I’m sure I’ve seen some but they definitely don’t stand out to me as a regular occurrence.

[CBeisbol]

One thing that occured to me,
When I play out OOTP games, one game takes 15-20 minutes

So, if people plaupy for a couple of hours, they might play 5 games. So, if something happens once or twice in those two hours, it might feel like it's happening s lot, but it's only happening once very few games

[RchW]

Originally Posted by dward1

we are talking in-game here, games you play out. it's simply not true and I can't believe you are saying this with a straight face, it indicates how little work actually goes into the nuts and bolts of the non-PT game nowadays that you try to pass this off. look at this thread. it shows you players are essentially never thrown out at second, never thrown out on passed balls/wild pitches and don't score often enough on singles from the outfield. these are incredibly obvious bugs and have been for a couple years for anyone who plays games out. no employee joined that thread, I assume because you knew you wouldn't work on game mechanics and how it worked but instead were preoccupied with PT. that's fine and makes sense business-wise, but to see so many of the blatant and obvious errors in basic gameplay is frustrating (bullpen usage and general dumb AI, especially in playoffs is brutal also).

I love the game but am thinking of sitting out '21 because of how little attention is being paid to new features or improving key parts of the game each season. PT is taking up all the time

Re the bold it's hard to take any of this seriously when people don't know that when runners are thrown out the passed ball/wild pitch never happened. Passed balls are special errors for catchers, wild pitches special errors for pitchers because they handle the ball so much. The advancing baserunner must be accounted for in the score card.

[CBeisbol]

Originally Posted by RchW

Re the bold it's hard to take any of this seriously when people don't know that when runners are thrown out the passed ball/wild pitch never happened. Passed balls are special errors for catchers, wild pitches special errors for pitchers because they handle the ball so much. The advancing baserunner must be accounted for in the score card.

I mean, Bayes and all, but instead of assuming the person posting doesn't know what they are talking about it might just be that they meant attempting to advance on what would be a wild pitch/passed ball if they were successful.

[Azagoth]

Originally Posted by AlpineSK

I'd wonder what the totals are like when you play all of the games instead of simming through a week/month/season. Its a small sample size, I know, but I'm currently playing out a historical with the 1988 A's, and I've had at least one balk in virtually every game through mid April. There have already been 45 balks league wide.

Bad news, your A's led the league with 76. AL total was 558. You picked the year of the balk.
https://reconditebaseball.blogspot.c...or-league.html