Help with timing hitting.

[viking12344]

Like the title says, I am using dynamic difficulty and seem to be hovering somewhere around rookie ---. I am not a new player to this game by any means. I am also getting good wood on the ball and using the yankees lol. I am seeing around 3 hits per game. It seems 8 out of 9 hard hit balls goes right to a defensive player without them hardly moving.
Any help would be great.
Many thanks.

[Jr.]

Check out some of the sliders in the slider forum. I'm not great with how they work, so don't take my word 100%, but I think lowering the solid hits slider can help a little as those hits might start falling in front of fielders.

[Heroesandvillains]

Timing is brutal (for me) this year.

I'm 65 some odd games into my Franchise and am hitting .249 (easily my worst ever). I always play on AS.

After 44 games (Quick Counts only) I decided to turn on Dynamic Difficulty. Still on AS LOL! If I wasn't walking so much I'm positive I would have been demoted by now.

Thinking I might drop the Pitch Speed slider again. Maybe you could try that first? You'll see a noticable impact. Timing is exactly what it's described; it's all about how well you time the ball.

[RandyBass]

You have to compensate with sliders. The PCI rarely lines up right.

[Se7enth_Sinn]

Just put it on Rookie and increase the Timing, Contact and Power Slider lol..
I did

[UMiami]

Quote: Originally Posted by Heroesandvillains

Timing is brutal (for me) this year. I'm 65 some odd games into my Franchise and am hitting .249 (easily my worst ever). I always play on AS. After 44 games (Quick Counts only) I decided to turn on Dynamic Difficulty. Still on AS LOL! If I wasn't walking so much I'm positive I would have been demoted by now. Thinking I might drop the Pitch Speed slider again. Maybe you could try that first? You'll see a noticable impact. Timing is exactly what it's described; it's all about how well you time the ball.

For me as well! I've always used Timed Hitting. However, this year my Red Sox are just over .200 for the month of April. Everything is either a deep fly ball or a soft grounder. Drawing plenty of walks and making good contact... just not falling. I changed my view to Classic Catcher 3 and that seems to have helped me a bit... still... very poor hitting on AS and Timed Swing.

[extremeskins04]

You also need to take into consideration other factors like the batter you're using and the pitcher you're going up against. It matters...ALOT.

Say you're using a hitter with his contact ratings in the low 70's. If you're facing a pitcher like Chris Sale for example and you guess the 4 seamer that he throws.

If HIS RELEASE is perfect, even if you square up on the ball, you probably will still make decent contact but you'll either line drive it straight to a player, ground it out, or fly it out.

Pitchers vs Hitters duels count for a lot this year even more than last year's game.

Even Mike Trout going up against Clayton Kershaw. You're going to hit a few line drives and ground outs.

It's not all about you hitting the ball with perfect timing...there's alot more to it.

[Heroesandvillains]

Quote: Originally Posted by UMiami

For me as well! I've always used Timed Hitting. However, this year my Red Sox are just over .200 for the month of April. Everything is either a deep fly ball or a soft grounder. Drawing plenty of walks and making good contact... just not falling. I changed my view to Classic Catcher 3 and that seems to have helped me a bit... still... very poor hitting on AS and Timed Swing.

LOL!

I'm still torn on whether to be exhilarated or frustrated by these recent developments.

I spent some time on baseball-reference.com this morning and honestly my individual and team BA's are pretty much inline with either the three year grading curve OR how they are actually playing in real life this year.

Soriano .240's
K.Johnson .250's
Gardner .270's
McCann .245ish
Roberts .275ish
Teixera .210ish

I'm ok with this.

But Ellsbury and Beltran are in the .260's and that kind of bugs me if we're being honest. I should be much closer to .280 - .290 with these guys and if I were, I'd be pumped with the hitting.

But it's a long season. Hopefully those two start getting hot because if they do than my numbers look really good!

My team BA looks nice too. .249 would place me mid pack in real baseball. I just wish I had at least one or two players hitting for a high average (to be fair I did, but went on a HUGE COLD STRETCH).