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Or maybe you could pay for extra minor league teams out of a list of unassociated teams with varying degrees of quality, and location could affect the players availibility. If say, the Red Sox want Joe Somebody to fill in at first for John Doe for three days while his hangnail heals he cannot get from Alaska to Massachusetts in time for todays game so you have to make do with John Smith who is the backup catcher, at first until Somebody shows up.
Most Independant league teams near me are owned by municipalities. Most of them are also either relatively average A clubs to rather poor R clubs. Anything higher and most players would either have been drafted or could sign a minor league contract and play on a AA club.
i actually dont like this....looking at the scouting report, that for years, i have had stats in a certain order....Quote:
Originally posted by Clay Dreslough
Here's the current order:
"Year","G","AB","H","AVG","2B","3B","HR","BB","K", "SB","CS","SH","R","RBI","OBP","SLG"
How about this (virtually identical to ESPN.com):
"Year","G","AB","R","H","2B","3B","HR","RBI","BB","K", "SB","CS","SH","AVG","OBP","SLG"
Clay
at the same time, having a uniform policy(for lack of better words) is better...but i do like the old way of having stats.
Perhaps the ability to edit the column headings, like in all of the other dialogs, would solve this.Quote:
Originally posted by boomboom
i actually dont like this....looking at the scouting report, that for years, i have had stats in a certain order....
at the same time, having a uniform policy(for lack of better words) is better...but i do like the old way of having stats.
They should add Minor League All-Time Records if they add career totals for the minors. Can see who the best almost Major League player was or if your old-timers still got it. Well minor league got it anyway.
That's a good solution. Make it totally customizable. The new setup gives me a headache... :(Quote:
Originally posted by DrDoom
Perhaps the ability to edit the column headings, like in all of the other dialogs, would solve this.
I'm thinking drag and drop.
2 things I would love to see in Mogul 2k7.
Is a Auto-sort lock, and Yearly/Career team Leaderboard
Auto-Sort Lock-
If you have a checkbox next to a players name, in the lineup/pitching dialog box.
If the box is checked, then when you click auto-sort, every player whos box isnt checked will not move as it does now...for Players whos box is checked. THey spot in the order/ minors will not change....
The #1 reason for this is it will make the minors easier to manage. Every time you auto sort a team, becuase of a injury. The minors gets all messed up. After you put so much time in putting players in the right level of the minors... I have had 70 rated players who should be in AAA when I push (AS) they go into Rookie Ball....really frusterating.
Yearly/Career Team Leaderboard.
Exactly what the title is. ^^^^
auto sort is a great idea. Its a hassle switching players around or having the computer auto sort then having to change them all back when the player isnt injured anymore.
It would also work if you could set your backups before playing,
then the game automatically inserts them into the lineup. it would be cool also if they had an organizational board (like in MVP Baseball 2005) where you could rate the best players in your orgainization by position. It would also make it easier to manage the minors.
Current top 6 - at time of posting
- Bidding for free agents against the AI (no immediate signings) 33
- Waiver Wire 29
- Enhanced Injury Engine (the ability to play hurt, e.g. "he's at 85%" etc.) 28
- Three-way trades 28
- Separate majors/minors Auto-Sort buttons 28
- Stadium improvements (e.g. luxury suites, additional seats) 27
I was thinking maybe a Bank Loan feature for those Low Budget teams that may slip into minor debt other then firing everyone they could get a "loan" and maybe get back on track. Not the biggest feature but would be a neat option
cool idea but i dont think real teams can get a loan like that. However it would be a really great option if you wanted to be a low income team like the Devil Rays. Plus it would nice to have if you ever went into debt.
If there ever was a feature like that you should have to pay the loan back(with interest) just to make things interesting.
maybe something like dept charts.....like in OOTP.
If memory serves me correctly I believe the Arizona Diamondbacks had to take out a bank loan to pay the salary of their World Series team. I may be wrong though.Quote:
Originally posted by anaveragecow
cool idea but i dont think real teams can get a loan like that. However it would be a really great option if you wanted to be a low income team like the Devil Rays. Plus it would nice to have if you ever went into debt.
If there ever was a feature like that you should have to pay the loan back(with interest) just to make things interesting.
I also think that having games rain out and double headers would be neat. Not a big interest but a neat idea.
Two things:
-For the "Manager Signings/Firings" - what about pitching coach & hitting coach (some effect on overall hitting/pitching? the style of play? moral?)
-How about new newspaper articles? Stuff like if someone breaks an all time record it becomes news? Or a section where the player can go to a section to see ONLY the news related to him? Or to seperate the news just by trades? Overall - lets call it an "Update to the Newspaper System"
Thanks!!
~W
You can already show only stories for your team only or only injuiry stories. But I do like the all-time record ideaQuote:
Originally posted by LetsGoOakland
-How about new newspaper articles? Stuff like if someone breaks an all time record it becomes news? Or a section where the player can go to a section to see ONLY the news related to him? Or to seperate the news just by trades? Overall - lets call it an "Update to the Newspaper System"
Thanks!!
~W
sounds like a new section in the scouting report to me! A news section for the individual player.Quote:
Originally posted by LetsGoOakland
Two things:
-For the "Manager Signings/Firings" - what about pitching coach & hitting coach (some effect on overall hitting/pitching? the style of play? moral?)
-How about new newspaper articles? Stuff like if someone breaks an all time record it becomes news? Or a section where the player can go to a section to see ONLY the news related to him? Or to seperate the news just by trades? Overall - lets call it an "Update to the Newspaper System"
Thanks!!
~W
Or a new category in the Transaction log.Quote:
Originally posted by liveandletdie
sounds like a new section in the scouting report to me! A news section for the individual player.
Sure they can. They get them from institutions called 'banks.' The Pittsburgh Pirates operations of the 1980's were almost entirely from what is now PNC Bank and the Major League Baseball Central Fund.Quote:
Originally posted by anaveragecow
cool idea but i dont think real teams can get a loan like that.
Clay, there's one thing that with every version of BBM I've seen which I've hoped that you would implement. Alas, it hasn't happened yet.
It's so simple to do, but for some reason it has gone unnoticed.
Clay, in the Budget -> Expenses screen, could you please for the love of all that's holy allow us to just text-enter the amounts for Farm System, Scouting and Medical? Those damned up/down buttons have used up more of my time than I care to admit to!
Do this and I'll buy 2K7. Twice. :D
This is correct. In fact, Colangelo recently had to give up control of the team to outside investors just so they could raise cash to make the payments. Guess that's why the D-Backs of today aren't considered contenders.Quote:
Originally posted by BigBubba
If memory serves me correctly I believe the Arizona Diamondbacks had to take out a bank loan to pay the salary of their World Series team. I may be wrong though.
secondQuote:
Originally posted by Steiny
Clay, in the Budget -> Expenses screen, could you please for the love of all that's holy allow us to just text-enter the amounts for Farm System, Scouting and Medical?
Moon? You from Youngstown? Cool. I was born there and grew up in Hubbard.
Go Penguins!
since college, yes. originally from PA. small world, huh?
Something like this would be nice, don't just have undrafteds disappear forever.Quote:
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
ALSO, absolutely must have either Interactive Play-by-Play and/or ability to Fire Manager (at least as options). If that idiot pinch hits for my slugger with winning runs on-base, or puts in defensive replacements in a close game again - when I have SPECIFICALLY TOLD HIM NOT TO (via Strategies Dialog) - I will not only fire him but fire AT him:mad: !
I think it is awsome that BBM is soliciting ideas for improvements.:D !
Thanks
J M-L
Ditto for me! Well maybe not [I]$100[I]Quote:
Originally posted by rollsroyce11991
everything live said and manager hire/firing and a way to manager games through play by play and I would pay 100 dollars for 2k7!
{Also hope you're right about the 2005 WS };)
I really like this idea...Quote:
Originally posted by SFSteveG
How about seeing this simply as a player option. They just take it if they want and there's some sort of prompt telling you. Also, How about an Arizona Fall League. It's kinda like an All-Star league that teams send their best AAA and AA players to to get more experience. They play about 40 games in October and November
How about at Season end, when you are deciding what players to resign or let go to FA, why not have check box option on minor leaguers - say you can only select 20 or something - or just those on 40-man roster (add my vote to that idea) to send to 'extra season' or 'winter ball' to improve ratings (even better if you could specify to work on 'defense' or 'eye'). Player could even decline (based on personality 'profile') but you could not then select a replacement but just loose that spot on 'winter ball roster'. Have AI generate stats and when player shows up for Spring Training, you can view stats and see if player has improved, or not.
I've always wanted to have a way to direct or have a player to improve there skills in the off-season. This happens all the time in reality. Some really bulk up (just look at Barry Bond's transformation through a rigorous training regimen).;)
Another awsome idea ....:DQuote:
Originally posted by robinhoodnik
9 Other #1 How 'bout September call ups?
Sorry for the multiple posts but I really like this game and the string of feature improvements from year-to-year moves BBM toward my conception of the perfect Baseball simulation. The above suggestions from the poll would nearly realize such perfection (at least from a managarial-enthusiast angle). If only this game had a kick-*** rock soundtrack and Home Run Derby like my High Heat Baseball game :p :rolleyes: !
Anyways, a 40-man roster with a Rule V draft would be a priority request. Also tops on my list would be a Waiver Wire, especially after the July 31st Trading Deadline. Lastly, on the GM side of things, Dooms' AI improvement idea re: 'specialized GM's' is tremendous! It would really add realism & variation to have GM's (and even managers) with their own quirks & preferences.
From a player development aspect, the Depth Chart idea (I can't remember who's) is great and with the separate 'auto-sort' suggestion for Major/minor leagues could make organization/development management more efficient. The other idea re: 2 'A' teams & so on could maybe be a Budget option; if you can afford it. Add it as an 'Expenses' and/or 'Farm System' dialog option. 'Course, the extra salaries for the extra players would really add big bucks on your budget too. Probably only a few teams could afford it in the end anyway (****/darn Yankees) :(
What would really round BBM out as my perfect Baseball game is more (or total!:cool: ) managarial control during the game. The interactive play-by-play is my A#1, Top-of-the-List suggested feature. My current manager sucks and won't listen to me:mad: ! Subs & stuff would be fine as a minimum, but setting plays and situational hitting would be terrific! (H&R's, R&H's, aggresive running, etc.)
Finally, an interesting feature, as was earlier suggested by someone(?), would be the AI Commish that could nix franchise moves, and trades involving more than $1mil cash - which I think is MLB's current rule. I always thought BBM made it too easy (& tempting) to just purchase a player for $20mil if you couldn't work out a reasonable trade. I'm not sure what other stuff you would have the Commisioner do, but having it as an Option would be nice.
Thanks again for the opportunity to give feedback and suggestions on features. I am looking forward to BBM2007 already!:D
all great ideas. i think another great feature (thats probably already been said but i didnt see it)would be more effect on personality. happiness should effect play(happy players play better and visa versa). right now the personality/best friends make almost no difference. maybe a player could even demand a trade.
After reading a lot of posts it seems to me that another feature maybe as an option should be salaries and stats auto adjusting to reflect the era. Many posts gripe about one or the other being too far off of the real stats and $. I agree that it's a pain to stop what you're doing and repeatedly tinker with sliders and settings. So maybe this could be adressed in a future patch. I know that I would really appreciate it.:)
I've got an idea.
How about Negro League players enter the league?
Example:
When you start the game, if you are playing in the past, like historical rookies, you can click a box enabling Negro League players to be in the draft as well. It'd be a little work obviously for Clay to look up when they'd have been 18, but i think it'd be fun to see the major leagues with the likes of Cool Papa Bell, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Etc. I think it'd be a great addition to the game.
Any of the Negro League players that played in the MLB already enter the draft when they are 18.Quote:
Originally posted by BubbaDrew
I've got an idea.
How about Negro League players enter the league?
Example:
When you start the game, if you are playing in the past, like historical rookies, you can click a box enabling Negro League players to be in the draft as well. It'd be a little work obviously for Clay to look up when they'd have been 18, but i think it'd be fun to see the major leagues with the likes of Cool Papa Bell, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Etc. I think it'd be a great addition to the game.
And accurate stats aren't available for the Negro Leagues.Quote:
Originally posted by SFSteveG
Any of the Negro League players that played in the MLB already enter the draft when they are 18.
I meant the ones that didn't play in the majors.Quote:
Originally posted by SFSteveG
Any of the Negro League players that played in the MLB already enter the draft when they are 18.
Awesome idea about the Negro Leagues. There are alot of stats available for many players and I have read articles with projections for white and black players if they had played together. I cannot remember where, maybe an old issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. Fascinating reading if you can find it.
I kinda figured you meant that and I'd like to see it. I was just noting the fact that some who had major league time are already in there for full careers.Quote:
Originally posted by BubbaDrew
I meant the ones that didn't play in the majors.
I'd like to see some sort of feature where you can "star" players on your roster. I don't know how many of you have Gmail, but with it, you can "star" e-mails so that a star shows up next to it so you know which ones are important or you need etc. I'd like to do that to players on my team so I can keep track of all the prospects I care about and distinguish them from all the others.
I have gmail and like it too;) Anyway, maybe highlighting would be better. Staring might not be able to put in as graphically easily, especially if the player-lock is added.Quote:
Originally posted by goyanks225
I'd like to see some sort of feature where you can "star" players on your roster. I don't know how many of you have Gmail, but with it, you can "star" e-mails so that a star shows up next to it so you know which ones are important or you need etc. I'd like to do that to players on my team so I can keep track of all the prospects I care about and distinguish them from all the others.
How about seperate windows all together for minor leagues then you can field the minor league roster you want with out worring about them playing one older guy more then the others. But also have it so you dont need to have a completed roster because I usually only carry 5 guys in each minor league system anyway but for pitching it would be nice to train a SP to be a SP and a RP or CL to be a RP or CL. or maybe develope position players into utility players by starting them at a bunch of positions in the minors.