re: MLB 14 The Show PS4 Online Franchise - Week 1

The new pitch locator is almost impossible to use, but I just flat out suck at hitting

Creating my Road to the Show character. This might be the greatest sports game ever.

I decided to take the plunge with analog hitting, and I kind of like it. It's harder to make a knee jerk swing like when you just have to push a button (although I'm just at the tip of the iceberg with all the controls, and I still have auto fielding and baserunning on). I also moved the camera up to catcher zoom, that seems to help. I still have a bad habit of swinging at everything, but it's getting better.

I just made my RTTS player. Added some of my free stubs from game stop and got him up to 82 overall. Got drafted 4th round to the white sox. I have blasted 3 Homers in 3 games already. And I agree this is the best sports game ever fricking addictive.

So I guess there's no advancement goals now. Kinda cool, but now you just have no idea when you'll get called up.

Got drafted with the first pick of the second round by the Astros.

I'm gonna get a badass pitcher and throw curveballs that land about 4 inches below the zone for every pitch...jeez it's hard to lay off those

A few interesting things happened while playing yesterday. When I was still installing I ran a quick game with the Tigers and Giants. Verlander was up to bat and the first pitch I sent his way was a big curve and he swung and the bat came out of his hands and went into my dugout announcer was like heads up I'm that dugout as the bat comes out of his hands. Then on my RTTS player I stole 2nd and the 2nd baseman got in my way and hit my player in the head when I was sliding and knocked his batting helmet off. Was pretty neat.

I only got to play two games last night, and I was either very early or very late on almost every swing. I even did a homerun derby and it was the same thing. I'm screwed.

Alright need some input here.

There are 3 schedule types to choose from, Open which allows all game to be playable. Flex, which opens a series of games in advance (we choose how many see below) and then advances automatically in 3, 5, or 7 days, and then there is series, which is one series at a time and advances in the same 3-7 days chosen.

For flex you then choose the Flex Leeway, which is how many series' are open in advance.

So what do you guys think? Flex schedule with 5 real life days to play 3 series? That's what I was thinking. If that's too much we need to know here soon, I'll hold off on making the franchise until tonight so we can get responses because this isn't changeable once created.

I also changed the wildcard game from a 1 game playoff to a 3 game series while leaving the others default. Even with 30 players, max playoff teams allowed is 10. So WS length is 7 games, championship series 7, divisional 5, wildcard 3.