Couple interesting things from the RBI 3 ROM

[brahmy]

Some of these are known but hey.

• 1984 Cardinals were omitted in the game, presumably by accident. Nightwulf brought them back.
• Allen Trammel on the 87 Tigers has a power rating of about 59,000 (average is ~780)
• Every batter on the 1984 Chicago Cubs has a contact rating (shit factor) of 66, easily the highest in the game (the average, excluding the Cubs and superteams, is around 20). But, the 84 Cubs batters have ~110 more power points than the average team.
• Most starting pitchers have ~48 stamina, but Candiotti from the 1990 Indians has 161. 

[ryno]

What's so special about the 84 cards? They finished third or 4th that season.  I thought the 82, 85 and 87 teams were in the game. 

[brahmy]

You're right, that was a typo.

The 85 cards were programmed in, but omitted from the team select menu.

[BeefMaster]

Trammell's power was apparently a defect when the ROM was originally ripped from the cartridge - I tested the '87 Tigers out after getting a cartridge copy of the game a few years back, and he does not glitch out the game when he hits the ball like he does in the ROM.

The '85 Cards were also omitted in the cartridge version, however.  I might have to try testing out Candiotti in the cartridge version to see if his was a ripping error or some bad data entry.

[Gantry]

Maybe it was the knuckleball factor? 

[Shooty]

Gantry has a knucklehead factor.

[BDawk]

I have the moose knuckle factor

[BravesPaul]

Did this ever get tested? I have the cartridge and can pitch Candiotti...

[BeefMaster]

I suppose you could test it out by throwing fastball after fastball - if you don't see the speed drop after 30 or so pitches, then the apparently-too-high stamina value is actually in the ROM itself.

[RBI Empire]

If I think of it I'll try to test out Candiotti tonight on the cartridge and see what happens.

[RBI Empire]

Just tested Candiotti. He started out throwing 88-93 mph fastballs. By 32 pitches of nothing but fastballs he was down to 78 mph. This was over a span of 2 innings. It must have been a ripping error.

[BeefMaster]

Sounds about right - you'd have burned through 64 stamina, and none of the correct values in RBI 3 are that high.

[Gantry]

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