Time for a frickin' 9 innings thread on ILG, folks... ― schwantz, Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:26 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

protip: since there is no defensive substitution, if a defensively weak player gets on base later in the game, sub him with a pinch runner who will also take his spot in the field. not as intuitive but does the trick.

i have done that!

i also am stealing bases at will - i take off whenever the fuck i feel like it. been thrown out like once. it fucks with my swing though. i haven't come close to throwing anyone out myself, so i guess it evens out.

i can't steal bases but then again my team's avg running speed is like a D. I am 19-15 in my season so far and that puts me wayyyy back in third place in the AL east (BOS is like 25-8 already and NYY are not far behind them) (I picked the Jays because Canada... bad call I suppose) (not that it makes a difference because I just get cards and replace my whole team except Hill, Wells and Lind)

i'm first in batting and ERA and wayyy near the bottom in RBI and every other metric. basically it's my shitty baserunning, same reason i have 12-hit games where i score 2 runs. i'm hovering around .500.

i dunno what other folks' strategies are but any cards i get that are worse than my current lineup i combine whenever i get the chance, in the hopes of getting a better one.

still no idea how to "boost" the combining process.

i've bought exactly one booster, for 2000 points, and it was crap. basically just keeping my dudes, all at level 3, and hoping for some good luck on the card front. card levelup seems kind of pointless when thousands of points gain you one measly point of stat improvement. i've got a manager who gives me plus 5% so that seems pretty good..

ok i bought the US version hee hee

i am currently killin it - got a complete game out of beckett last night

question: you guys are playing on "normal" right? i am, but i'm sort of wondering if maybe it's too easy. i went through the twins like a scythe through sausage

I'm playing on hard, it got really easy after my lineup got stacked

I feel maybe they cut the difficulty down in the latest update? i dunno though I split my time between trainyard and drop7 these days

hmm I guess I'm stuck. just won a 2-1 squeaker. if I keep winning everything guess I'll need to start over on hard.

it chafes my goolies that player cards don't indicate rightie or lefty!! fuck

also that I can't check a baserunner's speed rating

any opinions on which coaches or cheerleaders are worthwhile? no idea what the diff is between "card +3%" and "stat +3%" tbh

you can check a baserunner's speed rating, it's on the card

I use the batting cards, bat CON and bat EYE, think bat EYE increases your chances of getting hits? dunno

once the dude's on base his card isn't available though

pretty sure CON is likelihood of contact and EYE is likelihood of extra-base hit

could also stand for CONCENTRATION...or CONTINENT...or CONNOR...

where is the setting for normal/hard ? am into my 2011 season and my roster is p stacked, 11-2 so far but 3 of those are either walk-off or extra inning wins. is hard considerably harder?

The setting for normal/hard only appears when you're first setting up your league season.

hate hate HATE that you can't tell if someone's a rightie or leftie by looking at their card

still haven't thrown anyone out

after a storming start to my season (18-4) the pendulum is starting to move the other way - toronto has handed me my ass in back to back games. i got c.c. sabs somehow but he lasted two innings.

lolz the other night when a 100mph fastball blew by me, thrown from the immortal grip of... darren oliver

Tracer, do you think you're overstating the importance of LH/RH batters vs. RH/LH pitchers? Cuz if you pay attn to the player "attributes", you'll see some LH that are "lefty killers" and vice versa and of course the natural reverse which is intuitive (esp for you!). I think the game really doesn't dole out the advantage the way it occurs in real life. I've hit some of my longest, clutchiest, Jeterrific homeruns with LH batter facing LHP and vice versa, so much that I stopped even paying attn to it.

haha yeah i guess i shouldn't give a shit about that! especially when i'm able to play pedroia at 1B with no loss of fielding stats

the game is definitely catching up with me. getting some tough games these days. submarine relievers are killin me.

for some reason i always find myself playing the orioles. the phrase "suggest ban matt wieters" comes to mind frequently.

has anyone figured out a good way to double switch btw?

"different stats for cheerleader cards even though they are the same" - that's a pro tip (??)

lol @ you guys expecting MLB the show 2011 on your iphones

not at all, i don't have the patience for that! i love the easy cartoon style of 9innings. still wanna double switch though.

pinch-hit walkoff followed by a 6-1 drubbing at the hands of the halos; but I just got POO HOLES!

"Better luck next time!"

ILX, long time no talk. you ruined my life by introducing this addictive nonsense to me.

my batting & pitching:

http://i54.tinypic.com/r/5doylg.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/24e6fif.jpg

AND A QUESTION... I got this card at some point, my team is Toronto btw (not that you can tell from that lineup) and I got this... Aaron Hill card? The stats are nearly identical to my original, position's the same, and yet it says he plays for the Cubs and the picture is someone else. Who is the picture? WTF is going on?

http://i54.tinypic.com/4sh3rt.jpg

gonna try that pitching lineup again.

http://i54.tinypic.com/5doylg.jpg

first season teixeira i got like halfway thru and he still dominated the HR charts, like 61 total? 10 ahead of the next guy. awesome. wolf has been way more dominant than his stats might make you think on account of being a lefty and a right-killer. haven't used kershaw yet, got him during the world series and he was on the rest-day in rotation for the first run of the second season (i am only 5 games into season 2). does the game get way harder when you hit season 2, btw?!

lolz the other night when a 100mph fastball blew by me, thrown from the immortal grip of... darren oliver

i have had several 105mph heaters thrown for my team by matt cain...????????

nah it's not harder in season 2 (tho mine is still on easy -- if they let u upgrade btwn seasons go for it, i cant recall if it did or not)

also WOW & TEX's 117 power. never seen that card

^that should be wow @

how u have so many dope platinums my best 1 is like mike cameron

o i guess ur already in seas 2

im like ~ 45-12-1 seas 2

good cards from: 1. luck 2. paid money like an asshole 3. my coach is an upgraded +card% (right now at +9%). I think most of my plats are from homeruns and shit like that. Also gaming for points over stats ie. robbing myself saves to let a starter finish a game, etc. Also last season I had a million blowout games. Should mention that I have a cheerleader w/ +5 bat CON which is why everyone's CON is like 999999999

in fact except for grienke i think i got every plat there in-game, never ever get anything good from combine, or draw

I never do anymore. Seriously, I draw a gold card and it's like 30 points in various categories below my current guys.

exactly, the good thing is that this season i'll basically not change a single player.

people should go into the player rank and make the second field ILX or something, so we can compare "scores" whatever the f they mean!

err, why it's good i am not changing players: top of all of the player ranks. last year i only had one guy in top ten Ks because almost my whole pitching squad had a half-year of catchup to play. did we ever figure out how to use EXP?

i have no idea.. i guess i assume that EXP bumps up your stats?

anybody ever figure out how many inning skips it takes to reduce your EXP for that game?

the other day i pinch-ran for my starting pitcher, and in the bottom half of the inning.. there he was on the mound! huh? maybe that's some kind of s. korean rule?

i think howie kendrick has to have the best player photo (although i am partial to josh beckett's come-hither, kenny powers-esque pose)

http://f.cl.ly/items/2v3R3E1E353T1R3u0I3q/IMG_0041.PNG

I think that's just a bug (pinch hitting for the pitcher and having him return)

one of the "pro tips" that stayed on the screen long enough for me to read it: "difficulty of first 20 games has been adjusted"

that makes a lotta sense to me - i rocketed to the top of the league but the games are much harder now. i also just recently played my first NIGHT game.. ooh!

i have to say the difficulty curve is very very well done - as you get better, the opposition does too

btw Will M. the real way to rack up points is the real man's way - by playing Homerun Mode for like three hours straight til you can't see

I will try this Tracer! So much HR mode!

Also, Matt Cain gold card is consistently throwing fastballs north of 110MPH. INSANE

HR mode SO ADDICTIVE

finally realized that the timeout menu lets you see the speed of your baserunners, i.e. "Dash - D" or "Dash - B"

The computer is getting crazy good now (around middle of the season I guess.. sky has turned dark orange).. hardly ever swings at anything outside the zone and punishes me if I throw in the zone and don't get my pitching circle down to the minimum

Am I right in thinking that pitcher POW is becoming the most relevant stat?

Better luck next time ...

i liked HR mode so much i bought Homerun Battle 3D and... i don't really get it

idg HR mode - how can I use some of my power hitters? jimmy rollins loses and then it's game over

yeah the latest update seems to mean that the games are getting harder. but it still seems I win pretty easily, and yes I do have a POW +4 coach card or something like that.

you can't. you have to use your lineup in order. i've gotten to the 5th guy in the order once, i think. usually i puke out on #3. the pitchers get nastier too, throwing out of the zone sometimes..

i reallllly don't get the diff between coaches who are "card +5" and coaches who are "points +5"

i mean HR Mode is totally idiotic - i feel like a pavlovian dog or something - but after a tense game it feels so sweet to just bash em out of the park

points + 5 means you earn 5% more points for all your achievements, I think

kinda worthless

I really hate how when you fail at a levelup, it takes away one level from the max level of a guy.

i still have no idea why a platinum card is any better than a normal one. i see the same number of little level lozenges at the bottom. and normal cards are a hell of a lot cheaper to level up.

I've started just skipping all pitching innings. Just got too bored with it.

I've enjoyed homerun battle 3d. Although I always get me ass kicked in multiplayer.

Jeff I will admit to skipping most pitching innings as well but I often regret it - I'm a better pitcher than the computer. I never walk guys, for instance.

Something that has been infuriating me is that I can't count on doing a hit-and-run - even if the ball is right over the plate, the game often won't "let" me swing at it.