The V Icon

The V icon is a powerful and important icon in MLB Showdown. Any player with the V icon is an amazing player. As you know, it allows you to reroll an at bat twice a game. This, although the concept is easy to grasp, is not understood by many in its actual value. I was one of these people, until I made a formula to find how much it affects a player. First, you must choose a standard pitcher. Oh, this formula is assuming you use the V icon 2x a game, and not less. It's impossible to find out what percent of the time you'll use it once or 0 times. Anyway, the first thing you must do is find the batter's normal on base average against the pitcher. Refer to previous formulas for this. Then, you have to figure out how many plate appearances he would get against this pitcher in a game if he were to fill ALL NINE spots of the lineup himself. To do this, take the on base average, subtract it from 1, and then divide this into 27. Then, divide this by nine. Multiply this number by his on base average(in decimal form) and subtract this from the number you got after dividing by nine. This is a checkpoint. At this point, you should have 3 as your answer. If not, you did something wrong. Anyway, you've now found out how many plate appearances he would have against a standard pitcher in a game. Now, double the on base average(in decimal form). Add this to the hits per game per person(plate appearances per game minus 3), and you now have the amount of hits per game he gets with the V icon. Add three to this to find the new amount of plate appearances per game. To find the on base average, divide the newly found hits by the newly found plate appearances. Using everything here and in the other formulas, you should be able to follow these instructions to find average with the V icon, and with some perseverance and a lot of thought, you may be able to find other things like doubles and home runs if you really try. Here's an example of the formula that would show how a 12 on base, 8-11 walk, 12-15 single, 16-18 double, 19+ home run, with the V icon would do against a pitcher 5 in control, 18-19 walk, 20 single. This is too long to explain the whole formula, but it's basically what you did put into one big mathematical equation. And this is the entire thing, so some parts may seem partially unfamiliar to you... As you can see from the formula below, this batter's on base average is .4111232279. With a normal on base average of .325, this V icon helps a lot.

((2(65x.15+35x.65)/100)+((((27/(1-((65x.15+35x.65)/100)))/9)x(65x.15+35x.65))/100))/((((27/(1-((65x.15+35x.65)/100))))/9)-((27/(1-((65x.15+35x.65)/100)))/9)x((65x.15+35x.65)/100)+(2((65x.15+35x.65)/100))+(((27/(1-((65x.15+35x.65)/100)))/9)x

(65x.15+35x.65)/100)

.411(1232279)

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