Creating a dominate closer

To change it up from the norm, im looking to maybe make a closer in success mode, in the past ive always tried to max out the top speed but its hard to do that in success mode and be able to make it through. If you were to pick one good "out pitch" from those 5 choices which one would you do?

Personally im thinking of getting my pitcher to have 90 mph fastball, and at least a level 4 knuckleball... seems like a very good compliment

Thoughts?

personally i would with a slow curve or palmball (their pretty cheap) but from those choices definitley a KN

He completely BLEW through AA and AAA, and already has almost 10 saves in the bigs...

the knuckler is a good pitch,especially when you max it to 7

RSM created a great sticky for closers and pitchers in general so please refer to his note for any questions regarding creating closers before posting.

Thanks!

No prob

What are his stats and did you post him

That is one thing i need to take some time and do, i have over a dozen created players and none posted... lol, maybe today, maybe tomorrow... eventually i will get those guys posted and their stats up. most of them are works of art!

could you just give me a basic idea of his stats

i got him through about a month in My life, so hes still pretty raw, as of now i believe this is what he looks like:

Top Speed: 86 mph
Control: C
Stamina: B

Knuckleball: level 5
Hard Slider: level 2

Through one month of My Life:
10 Saves, 1 Blown Save
1-1 Record
1.75 ERA
25 Ks
2 BBs

Thats about as much as i can remember

Pretty good. But you should focus a little more Top speed and a little less on stamina

Yea, looking back i would agree, the main reason for stamina was in order to get through more innings in the games in AA and AAA, but i also did NOT think of the glove polish to increase speed, so i may scrap this guy and try again with that valuable knowledge!

Think of this I didn't boost my starter Ivan Wilkersons Top speed at all. It started at 86 glove waxes made it 98

holy cow... that is gonna save me a TON of technique and strength points......

I never waste time boosting TPSP any more

Yeah, but you need a glove and $600 to buy one glove wax, which improves your top speed by either 1 or 2 mph. I used one for Skalski and look how he turned out!

ugh tried last night and didnt have too much luck, got a guy with a lvl 5 knuckler and 96 mph.... ill have to try again, i only started with 77 mph so that was part of the problem

96 ain't bad my closer has 96

True...

i have trouble with the saving and re-loading, i get too anxious and just keep playing, before i know it its been 3 months and i havent saved and miss out on a couple things, one of these days ill actually take some time to try and create a wrecker.....

still looking for my camera cable to load passwords up.....

i gave up on making a closer, for some reason i have better luck with starters, and last night was no exception, with a dominating use of saving / reloading, i created my best pitcher yet.... password... as with all my other characters, still pending on my finding my dang camera cord but ill give the run down:

First Name: Andy
Last Name: Ace
Save Name: Ace
Position: Starting Pitcher
Top Speed: 100 mph
Pitches:
4 Seam Fastball
Curveball (lvl 4)
Changeup (lvl 2)
Original Sinker with more change (lvl 2)

Stamina B (137)
Control C (???)

I cant wait to try this guy out in My Life mode, ive never had a starting pitcher with faster than a 92mph fastball. And its one of my better staminas too.

You can try to write down the password. That would make it tougher, though.

that would be uber-PP dedication!!!

im THIS CLOSE to going out and buying a new cord.... im going to DC this weekend for fireworks and will def need it for pics so hopefully within the next week there will be a flurry of password posts!

if you max out your knuckler, you really only need one small breaking pitch, then you just upgrade control, stamina and top speed.

true but knuckler cost a BEASTLY amount of points to upgrade, and i was focuing on stamina for the most part

well, you could always have a lesser pitch like a splitter or palmball, then convert it to knuckleball after you max it out.