wudl83

Finally I was able to win again. Only 2 hits going into the 7th, but then I exploded and finally destroyed Smyly in the 9th.

Fine! Finally something that works! Tweak it all to your preferences and enjoy the game.

Yes thanks I found it. Over the last 2 hours I finally erased all the remaining fake players on AL East teams. Right now every AL East franchise only consists of real players. I have not edited the ratings of those players or their color but they have eal names, real positions and real birth dates at least. I think I continue doing this for alle remaining teams first. Maybe in my next update I can give you a version that has only real players on every MLB team on the MLB roster, in the AAA, the AA and A. As long as I do not have to edit the ratings I only need about 20-40 minutes for one team to edit the fake players depending on how many there are on each team.

Guys any ideas where I can find a minor league transactions tracker? All the one's I could find aren't updated. EDIT: Nevermind, must have been blind.

Cyberface Pack + roster with a ton of cyberface changes and AL Central edits up.

File Name: Cyberface Pack for Wudl83's roster File Submitter: wudl83 File Submitted: 12 May 2013 File Category: Faces Cyberface Pack 02 (18th May 2013) This is the 2nd small face pack for my roster which you can find here: http://www.mvpmods.com/index.php?showuser=95916 In case you have already downloaded the first pack you will only have to download the 2nd pack. In case you haven't downloaded the first pack you got download both packs. This face pack contains the faces for - Shelby Miller (made by Howington) - Edward Mujica (made by Howington) - Hyun-Jin Ryu (made by Howington) - Sergio Santos (made by DetroitStyle) You do not have to change any face numbers! Everything fits the numbers of my roster. Cyberface Pack 01 These are faces which you might not have installed incase you see bald heads occuring in the game while playing with my roster. Simply extract the .iff files into your main MLB 2k12 folder. My roster already has the correct numbers assigned to each player. If you realize that there are still bald heads occuring please let me know it and tell me which player is affected. This pack will be updated as long as the modders continue to put out new faces. The numbers of the new faces will then be included in my roster file so you won't have to change anything. You can download my roster here: http://www.mvpmods.com/index.php?showuser=95916 A few of these faces were made by myself but the bunch of credit belongs to the wonderful cyberface artists - DomoeYusa - twnlove - DetroitStyle - KoalAss - ymca38 - howington who created most of the faces of this pack. They did the work, I only changed some face numbers! Here is a player list for you so that you can see which cyberfaces are in this pack: Mike Trout 3528 Erick Aybar 6429 Jose Altuve 3533 Yoenis Cespedes 3078 Bartolo Colon 0232 RA Dickey 1870 Brandon Morrow 6579 Brett Lawrie 3548 JP Arencibia 0010 Henry Blanco 0112 Mike Minor 0187 Jordan Walden 0299 Reed Johnson 1901 Norichika Aoki 3077 Jonathan Lucroy 0164 Carlos Gomez 6421 John Axford 2592 Wily Peralta 3131 Jean Segura 3316 Burke Badenhop 6346 Hiram Burgos 1912 Randy Choate 0208 Yadier Molina 3005 Allen Craig 0064 Darwin Barney 0015 Anthony Rizzo 3493 Paul Goldschmidt3542 Wade Miley 3564 Miguel Montero 3196 Ian Kennedy 3062 Josh Collmenter 3428 Gerardo Parra 0524 Cliff Pennington6434 Willie Bloomqu. 1587 Brandon League 3680 Luis Cruz 6691 Ryan Vogelsong 1208 Brandon Crawford3473 Jason Kipnis 3530 Robert Andino 6827 Dustin Ackley 3377 Michael Morse 6290 John Rauch 3243 Justin Turner 0800 Gio Gonzalez 6829 Stephen Strasb. 0274 Bryce Harper 3385 Wei-Yin Chen 3087 Chase Headley 6361 Yonder Alonso 0003 Ben Revere 0229 Mike Adams 3065 Andrew McCutchen6394 Jason Grilli 3315 Nelson Cruz 6188 Yu Darvish 3088 Jeff Baker 6270 Jake McGee 0184 Matt Moore 3628 Joel Peralta 6310 Matt Joyce 2974 Ryan Roberts 6861 David Ortiz 0868 Will Middlebr. 3151 Jarrod Saltala. 6402 Clay Buchholz 6851 Kelvin Herrera 3642 Omar Infante 1679 Click here to download this file

Ouch, thank you. Will correct that. I also noticed that I misspelled Preston Claiborne (NYY, RP). I gave him a r as a bonus.

yeah I think the affected pitchers were originally 2k fake ones.

Thanks. I definately feel the same. I am really addicted now. Probably more than ever before.

You're welcome. The cyberface package will come within the next few days. I already talked to Jim and he said that it should be no problem loading it up.

I played three games today with the updated ratings. 1st: Yankees (Pettite, AI) at Royals (me, Shields) 7-5 Had no chance, they bombed the hell out of Shields. Had to pull him after 4.2 innings, score was 5-2 Yankees and Shields already had over 80 pitches. In the first inning I scored 2 off Pettite and managed to get him over 30 pitches already. But after that not much happened again. My fifth run came with a homer from Moustakas off Mo Rivera. I even had 2 runners in scoring position with 2 outs after that but I couldn't get one in. 2nd: Blue Jays (Buehrle, AI) at Red Sox (me, Buchholz) 5-4 after 10 Every team scored once in the first inning. In the third inning I walked Lawrie, struck out Rasmus and Bautista and hung a 12-6 curve over the plate that Encarnacion crushed over the Green Monster to give the Blue Jays a 3-1 lead. In the next inning Arencibia doubled and advanced to third on a bad throw by Drew, Izturis brought him home on a sac fly. If you think Buchholz would have been bad you are wrong. He went 7.1 innings, striking out 8, walking only one and giving up only 6 hits. Until the 7th I couldn't do much more against Buehrle, my plate discipline was really bad. In the 7th I pulled myself together and scored to make it 4-2 Jays. In the 8th the Jays brought in Esmil Rogers for Buehrle who had over 100 pitches. Esmil Rogers needed over 30 pitches to get 3 outs but I was able to tie the game. Ellsbury singled, Victorino flew out, Ellsbury advanced to second. Pedroia struck out and Big Papi brought Ellsbury home with a single. Score 4-3 Jays and I brought in Ciriaco as a pinch runner for Ortiz. Napoli walked and I had 2 men on base with 2 out. David Ross was up but I brought in Saltalamacchia to pinch hit. He singled home Ciriaco. After that I struck out. Score 4-4 and nothing happened in the ninth. In the top of the 10th the Jays had no one on with 2 outs and Uehara was pitching. I hung a fastball right over the plate, Bautista crushed it and hit it into that little corner between CF and RF in Boston's stadium. Victorino was very close but he stuck on the wall and Bautista hit an inside the park homerun and the score was 5-4. After that Janssen got the Save for the Jays. Thank you 2k for bad programming. 3rd: LA Angels (Williams, AI) at White Sox (Quintana, me) 3-2 I scored with de Aza in the first after a throwing error of Trumbo. In the same inning the Angels tied the game when Aybar got home on a throwing error by Gillaspie. In the next inning Kendrick hit a 2 run homer of me over the left field wall. Nothing more happening until the 8th. I could get no hits, the Angels couldn't either. They brought in Downs for de la Rosa who had come in for Williams in the 7th. With Downs pitching I was able to get Dewayne Wise to 2nd with one out. Flowers struck out but De Aza brought Wise home with a nice single where the ball went deep into right field over Josh Hamilton's head. It was nearly a homerun but it dropped off the wall unfortunately. After that De Aza was caught stealing 2nd so the score was 3-2 Angels going into the 9th. Jesse Crain struck out the side and Frieri came in to close for the Halos. Keppinger hit a popout, Rios singled. Dunn was up and with a 3-1 count he hit...well...nearly a homerun. Trout caught the ball with an unbelievable jump at the center field wall. Konerko grounded out and the game was over. Damn, three games, three losses, but three hours of very much fun at least. I hope you get nice games with my roster, too!

I found out something quite interesting. I played around a little bit with the "auto lineup" set up by the CPU and I realized that it is definately depentent on fielding ratings. BUT and that is the point - it is also way more dependent on the "fielding ability rating" (indeed it is even dependent on hitting ratings but I will omit this point here). And the strange thing is that you would normally think that the "ability" transfers to the performance a player shows when playing this position. E.g. you look at a player whose primary position is 1B. Because 1B is his primary position he gets a 100 in fielding ability at 1B. The player can also play LF and RF a little bit but not as good as 1B so let's say he gets a 70 ability at both corner OF spots. Now you would expect that he shows about 70% of his real ability of 1B when he is playing LF or RF. But that is not the case. The ratings stay the same, he is as good a fielder when he plays 1B and when he plays LF or RF. But surprise surprise! Put this guy into a position where he got a fielding rating of 25, let's say he got 25 at SS and 25 at CF. Now guess what? He plays as good at CF and SS as he plays 1B. So I think that the rating called "fielding ability" does not translate into the real ability and skill at a certain position, But what this ability determines is the likelihood of the AI putting at player into a certain position! Guys like Hafner, Ortiz or Butler who more or less only play DH got 1B as primary position ingame since the position DH is nonexistent. Of course those guys get bad fielding ratings but when the CPU sets up the lineups it realizes that they are 1B with a 100 in fielding rating at 1B and so the CPU puts them into the 1B in the lineup. I was not able to manipulate Billy Butler's fielding ratings in a way that the CPU would put him in the DH slot. Although the regular 1B Hosmer has way better fielding ratings than Butler he was always on the bench. And interestingly the CPU put George Kottaras into the DH slot although Kottaras has worse hitting ratings than Hosmer, too. Then I simply reduced Butler's fielding ability at 1B to 85 and guess what? Kottaras on the bench, Hosmer at 1B, Butler at DH. So to come up with even more realism and a real boost in realism while playing franchise I think I now know how to set up the fielding ability ratings. Maybe this reduces the often quite strange setups of the CPU. No more Hafner, Big Papi, Butler or Victor Martinez at 1B - at least I hope so.

i can fix it easily when i know who is affected :-) at least I think so :)

Over the last 4 hours I went through every MLB team and tried to find out which player could be affected by the bald head syndrom. I copied a bunch of cyberfaces from my MLB 2k12 main folder and put it in a zip file with instructions. I will upload this file together with my next version. It's an 41mb file so I think everyone should download it since it isn't really big. As a bonus I edited all the face numbers of players who had a generic cyberface and who are currently on a 25 man roster and gave them way more accurate ones. The next version should be fun!

Okay, I finally wrote Jim a PM regarding the cyberfaces. I will upload a package with all necessary faces later today or tomorrow. If he answers me and says that my plan is not okay I will remove the package of course. But I hope he says that everything is okay.

I simply wanted to wait and see if someone shows up again and answers my messages. I think I gonna write Jim a message regarding the topic and after that I gonna put the necessary faces for my roster in one extra file and include it into my download. I think this would be the easiest option and no one would have to download 600 mb. You are right KC, faces make it and bald heads aren't beautiful - at least in 2k12. ;)

me too

I think I got it at 65. You can download my roster, you can find it in the download section. It includes 2 slider sets of mine. I get very different results. My last 4 results were (me vs. cpu): 7-5, 2-2, 3-4, 0-9

New version is up since about 1 hour. Plans for next version: - edit more FA pitchers - edit AL West 25-man roster ratings to reflect current performances - edit the whole minor league system of the Red Sox

Nice to see you making improvement! Keep testing!

Those pitch numbers you noticed are very uncommon for me. In an inning where the opponent e.g. has one hit and 3 standard outs, I need about 13-16 pitches. When I have innings where the opponents crush me and score e.g. 3-4 runs, I mostly need about 25-30 pitches. To put it in a nutshell I average about 130-150 pitches per game. Sometimes I only need about 110 and sometimes I even need about 160 or even more. But a pitch count below 100 or above 160 are absolute rareties.

Yeah classic hitting is only about timing. The AI decides for you wether you swing for power or for contact. Classic hitting has one big advantage: greater variety of hits.

Okay I hope the roster plays well with total control hitting. I have been using classic hitting since a long a time... :D