My battery dies even in standby mode?

As per my rehtorical question...my battery keeps dying irrespective of power save modes and all the help and advice I can find on the internet since I upgraded to Mavericks. It's really very frustrating to have to deal with now.
I've looked around for other people having battery life issues on their MBP 2011/12 models (17") and other various MPB users and nothing seems to be familiar to what's happening to mine...
Can anyone shed some light? Please?!

Is the system actually going to sleep? If there is something running it will stay warm & use up all the battery.
It should eventually hibernate & save the memory before the battery dies, but that depends on some power management settings.
See if resetting the SMC helps…
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Also reset the PRAM…
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Otherwise boot into safe mode & see if it sleeps correctly…
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
Be aware that many apps won't work in safe mode & some Macs will lose wifi or other hardware features, it's just the nature of turning everything off. Reboot to get back to a 'normal boot'.

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