I have played 6150 games and am currently at Grand Master level. I noticed early on that my team seemed to give up an inordinate amount of runs in the 1st inning. This carried through every level and every pitcher so I recently tracked it over a 100 game stretch. Here are the numbers. 78 of 100 games my pitcher gave up 1st inning runs. It varied between 1 and 8 but averaged out at 3.5 runs. Of those 78 games I lost 37 of them and of those I lost by the exact amount of runs I gave up in the 1st inning. It didn't matter who was pitching as it was spread pretty much equally across my staff. So my question to anyone from glu is how is that possible? I've spoken to people in my club and some have experienced this issue and some have not. To me it seems like a programming issue but since it's been happening almost since I started playing the game and over many different pitchers then I don't know if that's a viable theory. At any rate I would like some qualified input from someone that works for glu.
Thanks.
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Unless you're giving up 1st inning runs in 78/100 games and runs in other innings individually in something like, say, 48/100 games, then there's probably not anything else to chalk it up to.
If you really want to do some research, play 100 more games and track how many runs you give up in each respective inning. If you want to keep it the most consistent, then use the same starter in every game using an ice pack.
Are your relievers more highly rated than your starters? Could be that your starters are getting shelled early on.
I don't really notice any inning getting more runs than others. I'm not saying you're lying or not right, but we tend to remember runs given up in the 1st and 9th innings more than all of the innings in between.
As I said, you'd have to pick another random inning or two and re-do your "Tap Sports Baseball experiment." lol.
That's really the only evidence that YOU can bring on why the amount of 1st inning runs is ridiculous.
100 games is also not the biggest sample size either. I'm also big into research (in the health field), so that might be why I'm nit-picking here a bit
I've had 2 dealings with customer service and both times they responded and resolved my issue. Maybe it's how you contacted them or the tone of your email or maybe you're right and they don't care. Either way if you don't ask you'll never know. Asking a question can change everything. If they don't answer then at the end of the day it becomes my choice as to whether I want to continue to play the game or not. I don't live my life by not asking questions because someone may not answer or I may not like the answer.
via 10 games:
1st inning-3 runs, scored in 2/10 innings
2nd inning-7 runs, scored in 4/10 innings
3rd inning-1 runs, scored in 1/10 innings
4th inning-5 runs, scored in 4/10 innings
5th inning-0 runs, scored in 0/10 innings
6th inning-4 runs, scored in 2/10 innings
7th inning-6 runs, scored in 5/10 innings
8th inning-4 runs, scored in 3/10 innings
9th inning-3 runs, scored in 3/10 innings
As you can see, the 2nd inning yielded the most runs. Teams scored against me in the 7th inning in 5 of the 10 games I played (50%). We gave up runs in 40% of the games in the 2nd and 4th inning.
We gave up the second fewest amount of TOTAL runs in the 1st inning, and we also gave up the second fewest amount runs given up percentage wise in the first inning as well.
Again, this is a very small sample size, and I'd like to have at least 300 games to average everything out, but these results don't indicate anything, at least for my team, to have any type of disadvantage during the 1st inning of games. If anything, it shows that it actually favors me in the 1st inning, as we give up fewer runs in this inning than the others besides the 5th inning.
Glu must have a personal vendetta against you and your team. "Let's troll Strieg3 by giving up all the runs in the 1st inning and hardly any in the others!!!"
Maybe I'll go create a thread complaining about the amount of 7th inning runs I give up on a mobile app game.
I tried being helpful - simulate 100 more games and track how many runs you give up in each inning. Hell, sim 20 of them and report your data back here. I would love to see it. 78% over the long term in one inning and one inning only out of 9 innings is pretty insane, so track your next 10-100 games (however many you wish to do), and report back here with the results like in my post.
If those results continue and you're only giving up runs in 10-40% of other innings vs ~80% in the 1st, I'd be SHOCKED...and most likely I would chalk that up to your starting pitchers and not some defect (but again, I'd think the 2nd-3rd inning would be really bad also). As you can see in my post, I haven't had any issues with my 1st innings, but I do have 4 prime starting pitchers and the other is a 5*.
.been....seeing....this....issue....over....6000+....games. Holy cow dude what is your deal? I could care less what's happening on your game, this is about what I'm seeing on my game and why. For that matter there are others that have chimed in on this thread that are seeing the same. I'm not going to track another 100 or 1000 or even 10 games. I don't care about any other inning even though I've tracked those as well. That it's happening through all levels with all pitchers is a concern for me. So ok you don't have that issue, I got it and good for you. I understood that from your 1st post, didn't really need proof as I have no reason to doubt you but again, this is about what's happening in my game since almost day 1. Thanks for your input, please move along nothing else to see here.
I apologize if I offended you in any way.
All I was saying is to track your other innings, but since you've already done that, you already have the results. This is a hitters game.
Best of luck.