Since my 2011 ROM is pretty complete, I'm thinking of starting a Brewers replay project. Using the batting orders on this site:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIL/2011-batting-orders.shtml
I'm going to replay each game of the season on my juiced 2011 ROM, keeping basic individual stats for each player. I have it setup so I mark down what happened on each AB and import that into my website. That way I have a log of all the stats from my season.
It might sound like an easy task to beat the computer in RBI, but I've made a few adjustments and have a few minor rules.
1.) Juiced ROM - this is the biggest key, it really makes the game tough
2.) Pitcher cannot move on the mound, so they rely strictly on their curve to pitch to bad contact. This makes the computer more apt to hit the ball, and any at-bat could be a HR, so it's more suspenseful.
3.) Pitcher cannot be subbed out after a pitch is thrown that inning, so you'll have to be aware of your pitch count if you don't want to throw beach balls.
4.) If you're ahead in the 9th inning, you must bring in your closer. This way, if it goes into extra innings, you risk not having anyone left when your pitchers get tired.
5.) SP stamina decreased by 5 or 10 (not sure yet).
I started just doing a few one-off games like this for fun, and I enjoyed it. So, once I started seeing that taking individual stats during a game didn't get in the way of playing the game (mostly I'm able to write it down while the ball is still in play), I thought it might be fun to see how my players do over a 162 game season, along with how good my overall record is.
We'll see if I actually finish it...
If anyone else has done anything like this, let me know, or if anyone wants to, I'll give you a spot on rbibaseball.us to host your season...
The start of the webpage can be found here:
http://www.rbibaseball.us/brewers
Gonna post here for now, website isn't ready yet. Went 1-1 at the Great American Ballpark. Almost lost first one but pulled ahead 6-5. Second one, Marcum got ticketed for 5 HR and got gassed early. Lost 9-1.
This is incredibly ambitious/insane, and I am looking forward to seeing the results.
Heh, yeah. Well see how far I get. I have the ROMs setup and put on my NES powerpak up to game 13. Pitchers don't matter much because I don't move them on the mound, unless curve is really high or low.
I basically have all the available players rated for the brewers and I just paste the lineups and my editor reads the plain text, so that part is easy.
To be clear, I'm not doing the other teams lineups or rotations, they are default. Brewers are the only ones who are set appropriately. It's cool cause it makes every game different with the different lineups. I'm interested to see what kinds of stats/wins/losses I get.
Sounds cool.
Are you considering ever making one of your juiced ROMs into an actual cart? I hate playing on the computer but would play the shit out of an actual cart with a challenging CPU opponent.
Actually, I have a powerpak, so I can just put these ROMs on a flash card and play it on the console on the TV in my living room....
If you compare it to getting a cart from nesreproductions.com, I have it paid for in 5 ROMs...mine was on sale at Christmas...
Where do you get the powerpak from? This interests me...
www.retrousb.com
Series 1 Brewers beat the Reds 2 games to 1, and win the home opener against the Braves in series 2, bringing the Crew to 3-1. Here's how the stats came out after 4:
Name AB H BA HR SO
Fieldr 17 10 0.588 5 0
Braun 17 9 0.529 1 1
Weeks 19 7 0.368 2 3
Gomez 18 5 0.278 0 0
Nieves 12 4 0.333 0 0
Btncrt 16 3 0.188 1 2
McGehe 16 2 0.125 1 1
Morgan 7 1 0.143 1 0
Kttras 4 1 0.250 0 0
Nrvson 4 1 0.250 0 0
Kotsay 8 1 0.125 0 1
Gllrdo 2 1 0.500 0 0
Marcum 2 0 0.000 0 0
Wolf 3 0 0.000 0 0
Almnte 3 0 0.000 0 0
Loe 1 0 0.000 0 0
Cnsell 0 0 0 0
Formatting is all hosed up, but I'll have the site up soon...
Whipped up a quick season stats page here:
http://www.rbibaseball.us/brewers
Someone PM'd me and asked how I was doing this...
I make a ROM for every game they play using the as played lineup page on baseball reference (provided in the top post). When I'm done, I'll have 162 ROMs that I've made.
Each game I name in the format Game # - vs. Opposing Team Name.
Ex:
1 - vs At.nes
2 - vs CC.nes
I put the Brewer's starting lineup along with some pinch hitters, and the Brewer's starting pitcher for that game on the ROM. I keep the same RPs, Loe and Axford on every ROM. I also set the uniform colors to home or away as appropriate, just to give it that extra touch. My uniform hack doesn't work in 1P mode because the man player is always the away team, so I just manually set it.
Then I play the game with my excel spreadsheet nearby, and log my game. When I'm done, I copy and paste that into a little website I wrote and it automatically tallies the stats over the course of the season.
I'm insane.
Someone PM'd me, and I responded to them via PM.
Attezz posted in my thread and I still consider him a douche.
Glad we got that cleared up.
Turd
I would like to add Lance Berkman to my rom what would you put for his Contact / Power / Speed?
Thanks for your help
Luke
Berkmn - 24 contact, 810 power, 123 speed...something like that...
Thanks for the info.
Do you know if there will be a ROM available with Berkman on the Cardinals??
I tried to update the 30 team rom with the RBI30editor but it makes an invalid rom. Can you help??
Thanks
Luke
I'll add him later tonight if I have time.
That would be great
Thanks for your help.
I didn't get to it but I will. I'd be curious to gear more about the error you got. Bugs like that are the reason why I never released that editor.
Logged a game tonight, got mercy-ruled by the fucking Braves. Crap.
My 2011 Brewers Replay project: http://www.rbibaseball.us/brewers
P.S. irod, I keep forgetting to update the Cards for you. My apologies. I'll do it tomorrow if I can remember!
irod, Berkman is now on the 2011 ROM, you can download from the same location...
Cool. That's one thing I like about modern games, they'll do that for you, tracking stats. I did it in NHL dynasty mode for a couple of seasons wih Colorado. Used to eat guys with Sakic, Forsberg & Roy. But for realism I'd put injuries on and one of Sakic/Forsberg always seemd to get hurt during the season and miss 10-15 games. I'd try and sweep as many individual awards as possible.
Would have done it with Madden but couldn't use historic teams for that. Would've killed with Young, Rice and the west coast offence. NBA, didn't play that heavy for a couple of years, but played a little 2K11 with MJ. Did one season with Barcelona in FIFA, but managers mode is too much of a hassle, I just wanna play. Would be nice to have this with RBI/RBI 3 so I'm interested in how your season goes. What about playoffs, you gonna do that?