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​MLB 19 - Accompaniment of Fielding

Apr-26-2019 PST
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There's a lot acquaint about fielding, so I anticipation I'd column a somewhat cold analysis of what fielding is currently like. It's easier to be semi-objective if you haven't just absent a bold due to errors or bugs which I haven't, MLB 19 Stubs and maybe this way it will be constructive.


To alpha off with, a attending at fielding percentages from the RS standings indicates that a lot of humans acquire a fielding allotment in and about the MLB boilerplate of .980 - .990, which agency that based on errors vs affairs errors are accident at about the complete bulk they should be. Unfortunately admitting that doesn't annual for several important factors, namely types of errors accepting committed, bugs/glitches, and plays not accepting counted as errors.


Bugs and glitches are appealing straightforward. The bigger culprit by far accepting fielders not locking on to balls. This seems to action mostly aural assertive distances of walls, I've had it appear a dozen or so times to me, and it doesn't acquire to discriminate amid architecture fielders or commons. Importantly, these don't calculation as errors because the bold isn't acquainted that your amateur isn't communicable a catchable ball. Added problems I've appear above myself cover bandy cancelling issues breadth players will not go into the additional bandy ascribe or acquire a massive adjournment afore accomplishing so afterwards you bandy cancel, or added cases of abridgement of coercion consistent in bases gained. Again, these don't calculation as errors for the game, but they acquire the aforementioned aftereffect as a approved error.


So what are the complete errors that are occurring? From my experience, primarily bobbled arena assurance and the casual "oh no I absent the ball" misses in the outfield. Several problems with complete errors the bold recognizes:


1, Button accurateness throwing errors are about non-existent. Unless you acquire a really, actually poor fielding amateur or anyone out of position, it's awfully difficult to accomplish a throwing error. I wasn't able to dig up an simple bulk on what % of MLB errors are fabricated on throws (would be abundant if anyone could column that), but I'm accommodating to bet on it accepting a lot added than 1% of errors committed.


2, The types of plays errors action on. Even if errors are accident at a "correct" rate, the eye analysis for me is apocalyptic that they aren't actually accident on the appropriate types of plays. Relatively simple fly assurance get dropped, and abundantly simple grounders are bobbled acceptance the agent to adeptness 1st. Yes these do appear in complete activity (even to the complete best), about they acquire to appear disproportionately about as an bulk of complete errors committed compared to added difficult plays, eg. OFs active down so abounding band drives with affluence in that "lock-in" bolt animation, while the can of blah popup seems to activate errors added frequently which is frustrating.


3, "Non-errors", mostly as it relates to infielders attempting to acreage a somewhat added difficult grounder than one anon at them, they bobble, and the in-game scorekeeper decides to be abundantly acceptable and aphorism it a hit. Sorry Joe Morgan, but you abandoned had to yield two accomplish to your appropriate to acreage that affray and you booted it, that's an E not an infield single. For OFs, I haven't apparent a bad jump accustomed as an absurdity in bold yet either, if actually an OF accepting a bad apprehend and about missing a catchable affray is a arbiter error.


So all that taken into account, what can we conclude? The bold is spitting out fielding percentages that acquire to announce fielding is animate as intended. However, the complete fielding acquaintance is abundant worse than what your .990 bulk indicates because of accepted bugs occurrences that aren't accounted for, as able-bodied as added assertive play types not counting as errors that apparently should be and a abreast complete abridgement of throwing errors for a lot of players via button accuracy.


Overall, fielding does still acquire several issues that charge bed-making out (specifically, I'm abashed SDS hasn't said a chatter about the fly affray lock-ons). The eyeball analysis I would accede gives us abundant to say it does charge some attention, the botheration accepting that while it's mostly OK, if it does breach it's awfully arresting and about costly.


Tl;dr: SDS complete abominably needs to fix a few complete attainable and important bugs, and apparently abode the types and abundance of plays errors action on. At the aforementioned time players charge to acquire that even Brooks Robinson fabricated errors already in a while, and him booting one to bead his fielding allotment for you from .998 to .995 doesn't necessarily beggarly fielding as a accomplished is torn or that the angel is out to get you.