Baseball Mogul 2007 Feature Poll

One other thought of a change I'd like:

How about the rare, occasional player that is SO GOOD and dominates the league that they are rated with a peak of OVER 100--maybe max them out at 110 or 125? And when they reach their peak, their overall goes over 100--to 110 or 125? Right now, so many players reach 100, but nobody REALLY stands out. I think it would be nice to see occasional players truly dominate (like maybe one or two players every decade gets a rating of over 100).


Also, I'd like to see slightly more players come out of the draft rated at 90+ overall. The Albert Pujols, Mark Priors, etc type players that dominate the first year they come into the bigs....

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Originally Posted by Surefire

Also, I'd like to see slightly more players come out of the draft rated at 90+ overall. The Albert Pujols, Mark Priors, etc type players that dominate the first year they come into the bigs....

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You can. it's in the rookies file. all you have to do is change the settings and you can get an Albert Pujols or Mark Prior.

Could someone indicate which rookies file (I found at least two), the folder hiearchy, and exactly what to set so I don't ruin anything?

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Originally Posted by Surefire

Could someone indicate which rookies file (I found at least two), the folder hiearchy, and exactly what to set so I don't ruin anything?

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Open both of them up. the one your looking for has numbers next to the positions. 100 rating is normal so if you set above 100 you'll have more and more superstars.

Thought of another feature for future editions.

A way to set any given year, decade, or century for style of play (perhaps the user tells the GUI what years you want your setting to apply to).

For example, us pitching fans could set it for a "dead ball" era.

Those that want normal balance could set it for "normal" era.

Those that want Coors Field like numbers could set it for "live ball" era.

Maybe there is already this feature currently, but so far I don't know about it?

One feature I would like added is, in the "find player" section, I would like to be able to distinguish between starting pitchers & relievers. I have not been able to figure out a way to search quickly & easily for relief pitching when needed.

There have been more than a few years, that due to the results of trades, draft options, and injuries, I have been short-handed in my relief corps and had to convert promising starters at the minor league level into bullpen fodder in the major leagues. I'd much rather make the key trade that brings me a reliable setup man than downgrade a potential starter to reliever.

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Originally Posted by ScorpioPrimus

One feature I would like added is, in the "find player" section, I would like to be able to distinguish between starting pitchers & relievers. I have not been able to figure out a way to search quickly & easily for relief pitching when needed.

There have been more than a few years, that due to the results of trades, draft options, and injuries, I have been short-handed in my relief corps and had to convert promising starters at the minor league level into bullpen fodder in the major leagues. I'd much rather make the key trade that brings me a reliable setup man than downgrade a potential starter to reliever.

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Also, as weird as it sounds, to have an "At least" category for looking at an age. If I'm looking to trade for a veteral at the trade deadline, I want to be able to say "At least 35", or something like that.

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Originally Posted by SFSteveG

I'd like to see Japanese players pop up in the FA pool from time to time. With Japanese stats too. I'd also like to see players go to the Japanese leagues and come back or undrafted players go there and show up later instead of dissapearing

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Definitely. However, the 40 Man roster, rule 5 draft, and a waiver system should be the highest priorities.

I'd just like to caution of adding too many features often proves to make a product faulty and added complexity deters and makes a product difficult to use.

Wow. Hefty list of potential features. All I can say to the majority of them is "Yes please".

In the other category: Some relatively simple stuff I would like to see

1. Shortcut Keys: for Play Week and Play Until

2. Extra Summary Pages

2.1 Needs Summary page. Something that tells you in summary form what the GM hint button tells you when you click on it for the various teams. For example Mets - Need Releivers, 2nd Baseman - Have extra Starters. Also something expressing the level of that need. Right now if I have a player I wish to sell, I click on the Balance Cash button to see which team is willing to give me the most for the player in question. Usally the team willing to offer me the most will give me the best chance of getting something useful in return.

2.1 Contract Window - A simple summary page listing all the contracts, options, durations therof of the players on your team (and others)

2.2 Depth Chart - See MVP Baseball 2005. Basically a nice picture of the baseball diamond listing all the players that one has available per position (for Major and Minor league teams).

3. Play by Play window. Right now its on its own seperate screen. Just having it in a seperate window where you can easily pick the team you want to look at makes it more useful.

4. Set CPU offer trades to off in default. The CPU never offers good trades. The Needs summary would be a better service.

5. Insurance. Mentioned in earlier post as a fix to the player drop issue. On signing, team can buy insurance policy on player for the duration of the contract. Policy cannot exceed 75% of the value of the deal. Player gets injured, the team gets the insurance money for the duration of the injury. That way the player is not dropped but kept, thus thinning out the free agent bloated pool. The lower a player's health, the higher the premiums. Once the player reaches a certain health level, he is uninsurable.

This would also allow one to 'game the insurance'. Similar to what the Mets did to Mo Vaugn in the Kevin Appier deal. Since Mo Vaugn's contract was alot less that Appier's, once Vaugn got reinjured and the policy kicked in, the Mets were making a profit by Vaugn staying home. Also would give the players the tough decision of whether to try to give a super contract to a Vladimir Guerero (insurance be damned) or try to wheedle out as many contingencies as possible.

6. Generic Player. Obviously the prospects that one tracks are meant to be the big to middle prospects that people know about. The roster in no way shows the entire breadth of the farm system. Create a series of Generic Players in each position that can then be used as fill in by the team in case of injury. They are the faceless no-names that come and go.

Create types. Set them to 65 pts and they should be 2 tool players. i.e. They should a 70 in 2 of the 6 (contact, power, eye, speed, range, fielding) the rest are set to 50.

I was just day-dreaming and I thought of this. How about Non-Roster Invitees to Spring Training? You know all of those pitchers that are on the free-agent list that have no chance of being signed to a major league contract? Well, you could invite them to Spring Training, and if they make the team, then that's great.

For example, I wanted to sign a speedster to one of my teams. However, I had to sign them to a major league deal (and as it turns out, I had to stash him away in the minors because I didn't think he was cut out for the team). Just an idea!

Another feature I thought of: the abilility to use a 4 man rotation if one wants to.

One more "nice to have" feature, to list for Hall of Fame players: list if they set single season or career records, either in the "Transactions" page as a milestone, or on the "Biography" page. One of my players in the 2030s & 40s retired holding first or second in almost every major career offensive category, yet one would have to do a painstaking search to prove it. It would be nice to turn to his HOF page and read "Retired as major league's career leader in hits, runs, RBIs, home runs, ..." and so on.

I repeat, it would also be nice if the newspaper made a big deal out of records chases and milestones. In the real world these things matter.

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Originally Posted by Surefire

Another feature I thought of: the abilility to use a 4 man rotation if one wants to.

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This is what the "Start on Short Rest" slider is for. Move it to one end and you get a 5-man rotation. Move it to the other end and you get a 4-rotation, with the fifth man becoming a second alternate starter.

Another stat that I'd like tracked is shutouts. While the AI sometimes gives career shutouts in articles, there doesn't appear to be a way to track them year to year.


Shutouts are to me an indicator of how dominant a pitcher is, as its very hard to throw a complete game and give up zero runs.