A player can make their MLB debut in the playoffs if a player is injured. It's just like any other player replacing someone on a roster.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
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A player can make their MLB debut in the playoffs if a player is injured. It's just like any other player replacing someone on a roster.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
yeah, but they can't show up until the next series takes place.Quote:
Originally Posted by SFSteveG
Well I didn't think I needed to clarify. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bgsexy66
lol you didn't, but I did. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by SFSteveG
You're such an *** :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bgsexy66
Mainly what I would like to see is better PBP. The interactive PBP is a great idea and adds hours of fun to the game. Right now the PBP is dull, boring and not worth looking at. I suggest letting some of the message boarders suggest some PBP phrases, that way they can get into the game.
the more of these that are implemented the better, but lefty/righty stats, manager firings and in-game control are things that I waould like to see.
I realize it's a minor matter compared to the many many improvements people want in BBM '07,but I would like the matter of pitcher/batter conversion looked at, so that we can realistically play the early days of baseball where players like Babe Ruth & Joe Wood started as pitchers & became batters.
(Or in the case of Joe Wood, try to see if he winds up having a Hall of Fame career as a pitcher if he keeps from being injured.)
Well here's my opinion. In order of importance;
1. Bidding for free agents against the AI (no immediate signings)
The most unfair advantage you have is being able to sign anybody immediately after the playoffs. No team should be able to sign everybody. This should also help to make the free agents available come March more important as the people still buying now really need someone.
2. 'Player Lock' button (specifies players that AREN'T affected by Auto-Sort)
This is the primary reason I don't use Autosort. Sometimes I want a LF playing RF or a SS at 3B but the AI insists on playing a horrible player natural player in the position.
3. Realistic 40-Man Roster Rules
This might be the toughest but I think it's important to gameplay.
4. Editable Number of Pitchers Per Team and Roster Sizes
Different teams have different needs. If you have an extra quality pitcher but a poor bench then why wouldn't you change some things around. The flexability is I think one of the most crucial factors in realistic gameplay.
5. Ability to Move Pitcher's Slot to any Position in the Batting Order
A lot of people want this and I'm one of them. It would just be nice to be able to put a better hitter in before you get to the no. 1 hitter and so forth.
And here are the rest in no particular order;
*Auto-Sort Button for Strategies; there are just too many things to change every season. Checking all your starters endurance ratings or looking how well all your starters or bench players run makes the game too lunky sometimes. BBM is focused on speed and this would help quite a bit.
*Separate majors/minors Auto-Sort buttons; This seems unimportant if players can be locked in position but can still help to streamline play.
*Use a Pitcher as a Position Player or Vice Versa
*Minor-league TOTALS in Scouting Report
*Playoff TOTALS in Scouting Report
*Ability to set DH and non-DH Lineups
*Rule 5 Draft
*Incentive Clauses
*Salary Caps and Revenue Sharing
One thing that might be cool but definitely not necessary, have a chart on each players scouting rpeort somewhere showing how many times in season/career they've batted at each position in the lineup.
1. Enchanced Injury Engine - I really like this idea. Tris Speaker with a blister is still going to be better than most other players.
2. Bidding for Free Agents - For realism.
3. Interactive Play-by-Play - This probably wouldn't even be necessary with an expanded strategy menu, or, even more ambitious, player specific settings. For example, being able to select which players you want to try and steal, but keeping others from almost ever attempting to steal a base. And no, you can't try to steal third with two outs. Ever.
4. Improved Sim-Engine for Deadball Era - I don't know how many people play deadball simulations, but since my games always start in 1901, this is a must. Especially for players who had stats that were nowhere near the league average, the best example being Babe Ruth. Under the default settings, it's tough for him to reach 200 homers in his career, much less 700. And you can forget about 60 in a season altogether. And I'd really, really be happy to see Ty Cobb finish a season with more than three steals. :)
5. Inflation - This goes along with my playing the deadball era to death. It's impossible to get contracts that are very low like they were back then and not have some teams make $30 million a year (Senators and Giants, specifically). Plus it's tough to determine just when exactly to bump the contract demands up without throwing the league out of whack. For me, anyway.
Edit: Man, I wish once in my life I could remember everything I meant to say the first time. Just wanted to add that I'd like to see hit streaks. That seems like something that would be easy to implement, and I'd be interested in seeing if anyone would even come close to 56 in one of my franchises.
Quick Suggestion:
I think it'd be great if there was an estimated date for when injured players will be ready again. Currently, it says, for example, 200 days. It would be great if it also said somewhere "ETA: June 9th 2006".
Thanks.
~W
What would also be cool is a way to actually play (or view on the play-by-play) Spring Training games, so you can tinker with lineups and such over the course of the month.
I havent read the whole thread but Ill throw some ideas in, I apologize if they have already been mentioned.
1) Managers and coaches, very vital to the game of baseball. Perhaps work this sort of like Madden where coaches are given the same record as the team they are with. Also with inseason firings and hirings.
2) Expansion Clubs. I would love nothing more than to have my own expansion team, control them during the draft and build a team from scratch. That would be a dream. I would have loved to take over the Rockies or Marlins, but I cant switch teams on draft day, and the teams dont become available until draft day :mad:
3) Ability to control when Expansion Clubs come into play, personally I would love to be able to bring Colorado and Florida into the big leagues during the late 1980's, then add other clubs perhaps Arizona and Washington in 1993, etc.
4) Stadiums actually mean something. Before the Expos moved to DC they were wanting a new stadium, now they are the Nationals they cant survive if they stay in RFK, so they are getting a new stadium. Cookie Cutter stadiums should only be a bandaid solution to a problem, they came up like crazy in the 1960s and 1970s, but are now outdated, nobody likes them and they arent very good for baseball. RFK and Shea are the only two I can think of right off the top of my head that are still in use. For a team to succeed they have to try and bargain for new stadiums from their cities, the Marlins will want one, the Mets will want one, etc.
5) Teams relocate, not too dissimiliar from how it is now. If a franchise tries to get a new stadium and fails, they should be able to pack up and find greener pastures, but this should be difficult and take many years, at least 10 seasons of sub par performances at the gate.
6) Rain Outs and Double Headers. If a game is rained out it will be made up the next day in a double header if the same teams are playing.
7) Smarter schedules: I was playing the Orioles in the 1990 season, we finished the season up against the Red Sox which was no big deal except it was 12 of the final 15 games. We went from playing in Boston to Milwaukee, back to Boston, then to Baltimore for 2 games, back to Boston, and wrapped up the season with a two game series in Baltimore against the Red Sox. Similiar glitches has happened before, I remember one month where I only played two teams the whole month, I kept going back and forth to their cities and mine.
8) Players can play 162 games a season. Hello ever hear of a gentleman named Cal Ripken? Im tired of seeing him with only 158 games a season, he is the IRON MAN, he is the owner of the longest consecutive game streak in baseball history.
9) Players who miss a season appear in the Free Agent roster. IE Bob Horner played 1986 with Atlanta but skipped to Japan for the 1987 only to return with St Louis in 1988. If I start a game in 1987, Horner is not available to me, however if he were in the Free Agents bin, I could just pick him up, perhaps put him in the bin for 1989 too. Same with Cecil Fielder her played 1988 with Toronto went to Japan in 1989 and had a monster season with Detroit in 1990.
10) This one is minor, but Id like to see team logos in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Sort of like in Football Mogul you see the helmet, insead we see the logos. Let it be fully editable too so we can change the logo to fit with the historic design or create a new one for the future, etc.
Enhance injury-able to play with minor injuries
Seprerate major league and minor league
3-way and 4-way trade
WAIVERS
structure-a three or four division structure could work IE no more wild card
play by play enhance-more control over game
roster size 40+ man
Revenue ideas/enhance
Salary CAPS!!!
Managers and Coaches for teams[pitch, bullpen, bench, 1b, 3b could be HOF, ect.]
DH and P switch and vice versa
Rivalries-yes
Auto sort-lock
Minor leag. teams/able to buy out contracts
Other-Base pay on the players performance, if they don't do well they don't get paid/incentive/bonus
A feature I would love is some sort of player tracker or a feature to view all players who formerly played for my team. I like to keep track of guys I get rid of but it's hard when I get a few years into the game.
it being christmas, here's my wish list:
(i love 2006, but i could write a novel about what i'd like to see for 2007. it's a bit long, so go ahead and skip reading it all, but i think i've got a few fresh ideas in this list)
1)more freedom in changing positions. a player who switches positions shouldn't become a garbage fielder if you try switching him back to his original position.
2)a revenue sharing and/or salary cap OPTION, coupled with compensation for losing free agents. i like playing small market teams, but it takes several years of rebuilding (hording revenue, getting high draft picks, trading veterans and good prospects for HOF prospects) to make my team good enough only to get to the CS or WS and get blown away by some team with 7 .300/40/130 guys in their lineup. try playing on mogul skill level with a team from salt lake city with a $30m payroll. you can make the playoffs almost every year, but if the yankees or angels don't kill you in the postseason, the dodgers or mets will. i had to move that team to portland in order to finally win the big one.
3)ability to view non-HOF retired players' cards. you know that utility infielder that sticks with you for 15 years, gives you lots of clutch hits off the bench, and is ALWAYS happy to be a member of your squad? i hate forgetting those guys 10 years after they retire. not to mention all the old relief pitchers that helped you win those close playoff games.
4)a franchise hall of fame and/or retired jerseys.
5)team all-time leaders.
6)a manager OPTION, coupled with players becoming managers. i'd love to see the aforementioned utility infielder be my skipper for 20 years. if it's done, i hope it's done right. managers should have their own cards with W-L stats, along with other team stats. managers should have a strong effect on chemistry and strategy, and a slight effect on a team's hitting, pitching and fielding. and i know i'm already asking a lot, but what about pitching and hitting coaches? (i'll stop short of asking for bench coaches and batboys... maybe 2008? :) )
7)platoons, bench roles, more detailed relief roles, and the abilty to customize the number of pitchers/position players on the roster.
8)a bit more depth to player personality with a few features added to make things more interesting. wouldn't it be more fun to have a milton bradley-type guy if he gets suspensions now and again? and what about an "enemies" list to go along with the friends list? also, i'd like veteran players to have the ability to help younger talent permanently. some should be more able to do this than others. managers and coaches should also have this effect. i'd like to have a bobby cox/leo mazzone/gred maddux trio that can make young pitchers with raw talent into true studs. personality could possibly be better captured in its own number-based rating system.
9)silver slugger awards.
10)STEROIDS! (just kidding. though it would be amusing if players had an option to boost their power rating using "the clear" or "the cream", at the risk of being caught. and if retired players wrote books about former teammates sticking needles in each other's butts.)
11)the ability for a player to come back. i've had players who maintain their attributes for the first 5 to 10 years of their career, only to become better when they peak and/or get more playing time, but i'd like for a guy who suffers a major injury to work his way back, maybe even become better.
12)a notice of milestones while simming. i only check milestones once every 10 years, and it bugs me when i found out a pitcher i started to hate and traded away in the past threw 2 no-hitters in a season for me before that. i might have changed my mind about him!
13)a "luck", "guts" or "hussle" rating. some sort of intangible. i'd like an idea of which players are hard-nosed, true baseball guys. an a-rod is going to have better attributes than a derek jeter, but realistically, which of them is more likely to come up with a big hit in the playoffs?
i'm about tapped out for now. i know i have many more wants, and i know as soon as i load up the game in an attempt to three-peat with my oregon ducks (former tampa bay devil rays), i'll think of more. anyway, thanks for reading my first post on the forums.
All good suggestions.Quote:
Originally Posted by asciipenguin
Wuith the fielding thing, I suggested earlier to have each player have a rating at each position. For example, Chone Figgins owuld have good fielding at third base, second base, and center field. Okish fielding at SS, 1B, LF, and RF, and bad fielding at catcher.
Not sure if this has been mentioned before...
I'd like to see a function that allows us to push a button (or a couple buttons), and the screen will display game-by-game season stats for a pitcher or batter.
For example, I could look at how a pitcher pitched in each of his 32 starts.
This would give me a better idea than just looking at his ERA (e.g. if 30 of his starts were very good, and two were terrible, the terrible starts would be statistical abnormalities).
And for a batter, I could see how streaky and consistent he was (e.g. a batter that gets 90% of his hits in 40% of his games) is more streaky and inconsistent than a batter that spreads his hits around more games.
I have also asked / suggested this to Clay as I hate that the fielding stats hinder the players true potential / usability.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
I love this idea. :) I would also like this feature, maybe not each game but maybe the last 3-10 games, so I would know if a pitcher a called up is getting better, or I should move a guy down in the batting order.Quote:
Originally Posted by Surefire
For more info on personalities, and an invitation for feedback, check out this thread: http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthr...425#post474425
I'm also hoping to have some form of 'recent game play'. Maybe the last 10 games in a 'Game Log'. Maybe just the last 30 at bats or innings. I'll see what we can get done.
Clay
I love the almanac and the full minor league system. Even though the minor league system only has like 70 votes I think it would be a great addition. Especially for people that run their own online leagues, it would also tell alot more about prospect performance in game situations.
I am probably going to repeat things I said earlier in this thread, but things keep popping up as I play.
Adjustable rosters -- Carrying more or less pitchers v. position players than the default settings. Adjustable rotation size, so you can have a 4 or 5 man rotation if you choose. (Or even 3, in the early days.) Along with this, especially if righty/lefty stats are included, would be a revamp of the relief roles, so that instead of "long - medium - short - set up -- closer" you can have "LH reliever -- RH reliever -- setup -- closer" and have your spot starter double as your long relief man.
Revamp of the deadball era engine -- I can live with no homers, that's realistic, but no steals either? That's NOT realistic. Personally, I'd also favor some coding (heck, I'll be honest & call it a "cheat") that gives real life HOF players, at least superstars like Cobb, Hornsby, etc. on computer run teams, a better chance to approximate their real life totals, barring game-generated injury of course. (To be fair, I'd eliminate this coding for players on human-controlled teams.)
Revamp of All-Time Leader lists -- Set a threshold of plate appearances or innings pitched before a player can appear on the career all-time leader board. A one-season wonder shouldn't be cluttering up the career leader lists.
Hall of Fame "Veterans Committee" -- Players who have retired before I begin my dynasty, but who have Hall of Fame numbers, should still be voted in. When I started in 1985, no player who had retired before 1985, but was not yet elected to the HOF by '85, was inducted. By starting in 1910, the Hall of Fame started inducting players that year, but all the players who retired then were out of luck.
While we're at it, can I shut off the foreign-born players becoming eligible for the draft in earlier eras? There just weren't a lot of Japanese major leaguers in the '20s.
If its feasable in terms of keeping log file size down, I still think doing all 162 games in a season makes the most sense. It allows me to run statisitical analysis with greater degree of accuracy (larger sample size) than just 3-10 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by forbes
1. I would like to track players via active or inactive that played for me and where they rank. such as you click or its automatic it ll track the player until you say not to. Check players option to a screen that lets you have a look at career or that year and when you click on them you get the thumb nail you get now.
2. Deeper Team meaning. Rivalries more apparent, popularity increases and some type of team best rankings for full time/bench players (bullpen).
3. You have full time players and you have specialty players, would like to see who the best bench, bullpen players where, they are forgotten. I had some 1000 inngin 2.50 10 - 15 win loss pitcher who helped me stay in so many games but never won anything.
4. I like what I see on this thread. But I would like to see a stronger loyalty resigning and them even coming to you asking for a contract. Players saying aye I want to stay for a discount and you offer it with longevity they remember it the fans do and it helps you out.
I was just logging on to recommend something similar to your #1. I would like to push a button, and have a linked list pop up of former players on my team. Some would be HOF, some retired, and some on other teams (those players I couldn't afford to resign). I like tracking how my former players did, especially when they sign on to other lesser teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by medieval
Another feature I was thinking of...
Perhaps ejections can be issued by the umpires too? Maybe after 3 beanings or something in a game, have them automatically ejected?
Perhaps a reversed Trading Block could be employed? Instead of releasing 50 players and resigning them 50 times, perhaps teams can place players on a "trading block" and you can offer what players (or cash) you'd like to give up for them? This could be similar to how players respond to you when you put players on the trading block yourselves. Perhaps waivers could have a similar format as this?
It would be nice to know who the free agents are likely to be BEFORE the end of the current season.
That is availabe for ages...Quote:
Originally Posted by spillak
I think what he mean was being able to view other teams' potential FAs. The guys that the CPU teams won't be resigning. Give something like a % chance [PLAYER] will be a FA at season's end like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Outsider
Chance Player (Team)
96%---Roger Clemens(Houston)
45%---Michael Young(Texas)
02%---Alex Rodriguez(New York A)
That way you can plan accordingly and not force yourself to sign your crappy players when you have a possibility of signing a better one when FAs hit.
Aha. What does everyone else think? This wouldn't be TOO hard. We'd probably have to throw it in as a column in the Roster and Find Players page. But could also show it in some form on the 'Summary' page.Quote:
Originally Posted by noblevegas
Clay
I like that and I think it would be a nice addition. I would also like to see the chance that a player is going to retire also so I know if I should re-sign them. One question I have Clay is when I re-sign a 43-45 year old to a new contract and that player retires am I still on the line for the contract (if this has been addressed or if anybody knows please let me know. I have always been confused as to whether I'm still paying for a player when he decides to retire.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay Dreslough
When a player retires in Baseball Mogul, you stop paying him. So you can usually work the system a bit by signing a 43-year-old to a long deal, knowing that he won't be collecting checks by the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bgsexy66
Clay
Ok thanks for the clarification Clay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay Dreslough
I like that Idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay Dreslough
I dont know why no one has brought up lefty/righty splits. That is such an important part of real baseball; lefty specialists, matchups. There should definitely be lefties and righties in the game and it would make switch hitters so much more valuable.
Very popular in the poll already. The line saying "Platoon splits (lefty/righty stats and lefty/righty lineups)"Quote:
Originally Posted by SOX24
Ya, i realized that i only read the first page. Oops, my bad.