iPhone games (also Ipod Tooch/iPad games too)

(still haven't thrown anybody out yet)

ditto. haven't stolen a base either.

I've stolen 2, been thrown out stealing maybe 10 times. With stolen bases, and close plays at any base, the AI is totally strict. You must be clearly, obviously, way safe. Anything else is frustrating. (glad I didn't choose the stolen base goal at the beginning of the season!)

The part I have the most trouble with is baserunning, especially in situations where you want one runner to advance and another to stay. I always end up missing the tiny icon repeatedly, and then by the time I manage to press it I'm basically just running into an out.

In other words, I have lots of games where I wind up with 10-15 hits and 3 runs or something because of all the baserunning mistakes.

me too! I just never try to stretch hits anymore (unless I'm using rollins, dude can run)

One thing I'm worried about, though, over the course of a season - do the other teams improve as well? I'm worried because if I'm already winning most of my games at the beginning of a season, with a bunch of low-level cards, won't I just be mowing people down halfway through with a bunch of rare and platinum card players?

One thing that bugs me about base advancing is that there isn't any nuance. If I want the 3rd base guy to advance to home, and there's a guy on 1st base, and hit the advance button, they both move -- which can lead to the inning ending early instead of the extra run I'm shooting for.

That's the thing, there's a way to do it - you can press the button corresponding to the baserunner you want to advance, and they'll advance by themselves and the other runner will stay. So it's possible. But unfortunately in practical terms it's very difficult to accomplish, it just never seems to work reliably.

Hmmm, I'll have to mess around with it. I only ever noticed the two buttons -- the red one and the green one.

Woo. 8-8 against the Mets until the 11th inning when Ryan Howard smacked a homerun out of the park and then Brad Lidge closed down the other side (after Madsen panicked and loaded up the bases). <3 u 9 Innings

bought & won 1st game 7-5 when luis castillo hit a 2 run hr in the bottom of the 8th (so realistic! lol)

i'm still playing the old version, can't wait to play with real players (though i sort of like how dinky the graphics are.. it reminds me of the great Micro League Baseball - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroLeague_Baseball )

im really dumb but i cant for the life of me figure out how to use the cards im getting..? is it cuz im in season mode i cant swap them in? do i really have to play 162 games to use my jeff suppan rare card!>?!?@

you exit league mode and go to my cardbox, then you can swap and level up your players and stuff

(have feeling you're gonna need to buy their 'assist' cards or w/e for 99 cents a pop because the failure rate oncey ou get past level 3 is pretty high and it costs thousands of points a try too)

i was in my cardbox for like 40(ok like 5) minutes last night! i managed to swap my cheerleader but couldnt figure out players

You go into your player box (leftmost tab), doubletap on the player you want to replace, then switch to your bench (the tabs in the middle) and doubletap on the player you want to substitute in. I agree, btw, it's not intuitive at all!

guys

can u stop talking about this dumb baseball game and talk more about drop7

no way man. 9 innings is incredible

ya but DROP 7

(ok maybe i'll try it)

Guys I just thought of an idea for a new game

Drop 7 9 innings baseball

woah u blew my mind

i am interested

s1ocki when you say 4s are truly evil i feel as though you've elevated to another plane of wizardry. i am still on the humble grasshopper plane of getting rid of 1s and 6s. 4s seems like a friend - so easy to dispose of! do you mean that 4s are evil in the end game? because yes, there i can agree.

kinda hate how the computer in 9 innings will let you pitch 5 perfect innings and then belt off 3 doubles in a row despite you pitching everything to them outside the strike zone

but the computer lets you do that sometimes too

I don't think I've played a game yet where the final combined score was less than 10 runs

i've had 1-0 games in the previous versh of 9 innings

9 innings won't let me listen to music while playing ://///

s1ocki when you say 4s are truly evil i feel as though you've elevated to another plane of wizardry. i am still on the humble grasshopper plane of getting rid of 1s and 6s. 4s seems like a friend - so easy to dispose of! do you mean that 4s are evil in the end game? because yes, there i can agree.

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

6s u definitely need to keep your eye on in the lower stages (they're major cock-blockers), but nothing is worse than seeing a 4 pop up at '5' row or above. i mean, the real worst is a 5 on 6 level or 6 on 7 level but at that point you're usually fucked anyway. 4s on level 5 and up are just deadly. 1s, you can usually dig out or work around no matter where they are. i mean, not always, especially when they're all in a cluster (worst is like, 1211), but on their own they're easy to dispatch.

god i've thought about this a lot.

so uh I got my first 'tie' in 9 innings 2011 today. went 12 innings and the game just ended and now I have a tie on my record. found out that ties are acceptable in japanese baseball so maybe this game is following japanese baseball rules?

also found out this neat fact

Other differences from MLB are that the general play is less aggressive, there are fewer home runs, the strike zone is larger near the batter but smaller away from the batter, and the ball is slightly smaller and wound more tightly.

I suck at 9 innings. Although I just realized you have to level up your cards. What determines if it fails or not?

Also, my pitchers wear out quick fast. Especially if a couple of runners get on. I'm lucky if I can get my starters to go 4 innings.

whether or not you buy those cards that increase the chance of it going through

all my players are at level 3, some at level 4 right now. was getting frustrated with too many failed level ups + level ups costing 1000-2000 points a pop after level 3, and I refuse to buy my way to success, although it seems that this system actually reflects pretty well how MLB works. my team seems to be doing alright though

xp the more hits/runs your pitcher gives up the faster his stamina goes down. I've pitched a few complete games so far with javier vasquez

Got a rare Joe Mauer card and he is srsly like 7/9 so far

I have some games where I use every one of my relief pitchers. So I'm fucked for the next game. Seriously, these guys need to keep their shit together if they give up one goddamn base hit. I've never cursed more at an iphone game in my life.

yeah, starters can barely reach 75 pitches. also I am pretty sure I got out for bunting fair (!) with two strikes

wish there was an stl team :(

whaaat? I'm using the stl team.

waht!

upgrade a dude to level 3 and next at bat I get the same dude but higher stats and only at level 1

lol i bought the wrong one. its pretty fun though!

Normally hang around ILB, but thought I'd post to say that a friend of my brother's just completed a game for the iphone. Not actually played it myself, but it sounds ok -

Review here.

wow that looks neat

Have started playing drop7, it's really elegant IMO

and wonderful

and perfect

damnit i am back on the drop7 crack. got my first >500k score this morning but not sure if it was skill or change.

or chance.

Drop7 is kind of blowing up my brain in that I keep looking at everyday objects and thinking, "If I drop a four on top of that, it will all disappear..."

damnit i am back on the drop7 crack. got my first >500k score this morning but not sure if it was skill or change.

― ledge, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:17 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

good lad

fuckin 4s tho

Finally got a complete game in 9 innings. 40 games into the season, I'm finally starting to have a decent team.

my beloved Tampa Rays (GO YOU RAYS) is batting like .392 and has a team ERA of around 2 (both first in the league), yet we're still 4 games behind the Yankees for the division title.

is this the best game available for the iPhone? as much as I love Peggle & Drop7 & Canabalt & WWF I'm starting to think yes.

beat the yanks twice, now vazquez is pitching against vazquez