I like that guys idea also.Quote:
Originally Posted by 21C
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I like that guys idea also.Quote:
Originally Posted by 21C
I like a bunch of the ideas up there, but I really would like the month by month stats for players and the month by month record on my calender. I don't know why that got taken down.
for the monthy record to be displayed on the calendar view, see this thread:
http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthread.php?t=112595
*Make sure statistics are accuately recorded (winning pitcher, etc.)
*Add intentional walks to computer controll play in PBP mode.
*Correct the "errors" problem with catchers and outfielders. Fewer dropped pop-ups by catcher in fair territory and reaching base on outfielder errors on fly balls; add throwing errors by outfielders instead, and pass balls by catchers.
*More options on base running in PBP mode.
*More realistic trading. When I offer a young pitcher rated 78 for an older pitcher rated 73, the AI GM usually scoffs. Maybe he just knows I was kidding and trying to test him.
*Ability to sign free agents to minor league contracts.
*Box scores and player cards should list statistics in same order, with things like "year" added to player card. Order should be like listed in part 2 on Clay's message. Box scores should be as they are in the papers, i. e., AB, Runs, Hits, RBIs...extended further as they are now.
How about weekly/monthly awards? I just had Curt Schilling strike out 19 in a game. Think he deserves Pitcher/Player of week?
I haven't read all of the postings, but what about something akin to a bench coach who suggests possible situational reactions (ie. late in the game, down by a run, you get a hit. Bench coach suggests "We should pinch run with Player X, he has more speed."
I would like the ability to hire scouts, coaches and managers (similar to Season Ticket Baseball). I love this game mainly for the GM capabilities and the more that offered, the happier I am.
One more thought....how about player vs team stats? How does Andrew Jones do against Colorado? Some players have better luck against certain teams....
one more more thought....what about team w-l in pitcher starts.....Joe Schmo was 7-3 but his team is 11-5 in games he starts...anybody?
sure, that would be nice. Where's it going to fit though?
the only "good" way to add those stats, would be under another tab like the splits one or game log one.... I also think the sabermetric stats.... like K/9, BB/9, WHIP that you can see on your roster page need to make it onto the player cards so if I am trading I don't have to go to the team's roster page to find these!
One thing I really liked about MVP Baseball 05 in dynasty mode was the "goals" you had to meet to keep the owner happy. There were long-term goals that had to be completed over 3-5 year periods and short-term (current year) goals.
They are especially good incentive to take over a crappy team because the goals might only be something like:
-win 50% of your games over the next 3 years
-Have at least 1 player bat .300 this season
-Have a pitching staff ERA <5
-Have a player in the league's top-10 in stolen bases
et cetera
-Build a team with overall happiness/team chemistry of >=80
Whereas if you take over the Yankees the goals could be more like this:
-Win at least 65% of regular season games over next 3 years
-Win world series at least once in next 3 years
-Make playoffs each of next 3 years
-Have staff ERA <4.25
-Have 3 players with 25+ HRs at end of season.
Meeting all of your goals could give you more leeway in terms of payroll budget or other decision making while meeting none could get you fired. Anything in between would have some positive and some negative effects.
In fact, just thinking of it... it would be cool to have a "career" option where you HAVE to start by controlling a low-budget or crappy team like Tampa, KC, Milwaukee (no offense to those fans) and only once you "prove yourself" by meeting a decent amount of goals, then you are offered jobs with more "prestigous" teams & tougher goals.
/\ You're right, man. MVP had some good stuff and it'd be nice to see some of those things in Mogul. (Usually we're saying we'd like to see stuff from Mogul in console games!) It'd be good if Mogul had different modes, like managers, GM, owner, etc.
Similar things have been suggested before. The thing is, Mogul has never had a fictional owner; you are basically considered the owner. I'm not sure if I would be too happy if that changed.
...It could certainly be an optional addition to the game. It's not a bad idea, really.
Yeah it should definitely be optional, with the way the game is now always available. It'd be nice to just be manager and have to listen to the GM and owner. It'd be cool to be GM and have to communicate with the manager an owner, and it'd be cool to run it all as owner.Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
Number one for me would also be the Almanac, OOTP 2007 does an amazing job with this. Part of the fun of Sports Mogul would be being able to go back and study the history of your league thru the Almanac.
I've been working on this feature since this poll was first posted. We just didn't have it done for Mogul 2007. I expect to have it pretty complete for next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by norsky
Clay
Clay: Just how difficult would an "abstracted" 40 man roster/rule 5 draft be to implement?? I truly believe it would work wonders for play balnace between human and AI teams as well as giving the poored teams (in monetary terms) a chance to 'catch up".
If it was a "once per year" thing which was done in the fall after the free agent period, after the expansion draft (if any), after most teams sign available top notch free agents, and before the schoolboy draft. Just work it like an exapnsion draft with teams excluding their 40 man roster and their minor leaguers with less than five years of service. Teams drafting a player must keep him on their 40 man roster for a year and sign him to a ML contract.
It would seem that tweaking your expansion draft subroutines would create such a draft routine on a simplified basis.
Clay: Just how difficult would an "abstracted" 40 man roster/rule 5 draft be to implement?? I truly believe it would work wonders for play balnace between human and AI teams as well as giving the poored teams (in monetary terms) a chance to 'catch up".
If it was a "once per year" thing which was done in the fall after the free agent period, after the expansion draft (if any), after most teams sign available top notch free agents, and before the schoolboy draft. Just work it like an exapnsion draft with teams excluding their 40 man roster and their minor leaguers with less than five years of service. Teams drafting a player must keep him on their 40 man roster for a year and sign him to a ML contract.
It would seem that tweaking your expansion draft subroutines would create such a draft routine on a simplified basis.
Suggestion for 2008: Incentive-laced contracts. the ability to pay less gauranteed money, in exchange for player incentives (they have to earn some of the money).
Also signing bonuses could be introduced (& signability issues for certain rookies,Free agents ) Not every one wants to play a perenial loser whilst others will take less cash to play on a WS caliber team....Quote:
Originally Posted by Surefire
I'm pretty new to the game - think it's great - but I really enjoy modding so ...
What I would really love to see is an Input file called something like FreeAgents.csv along the lines of the 2006roster.csv file but where you could put in any year (or years) you wanted to for the player. These would be players from outside ML baseball - the old Negro Leagues, the Japanese leagues, Latin America, etc who would appear as draftable (and biddable) Free Agents in the years indicated for them in the file. This would be a great way to get historical players without ML records into the game at their correct dates and not just into 2006 rosters. They could even be fictional players (I hear there's this kid from Kansas named Clark Kent who can hit the ball a mile). :)
You could then also add stats for them in the Batting, Pitching, and Fielding csv files to give them a definite statistical profile. I'm not looking for the players or stats themselves, just a blank file that could be added to that would be read by the program.
Full minor league teams (with their own schedules and box scores)
That is by far my #1 wish for 2008. To fully build a powerful dynasty that last many many years you need to have a solid farm system. If we could have full minor league teams and set their rosters, that'd be huge. Similar to what MVP 2005 has. I think that's the one area Mogul lacks a bit and could really improve. All these suggestions are great! I'm looking forward to 2008 already!
More 2k8 suggestions for the next version:
1. Track players that were once yours but signed as free agents vs. other teams or were traded.
2. Have a screen that shows your record vs. every other team in the league
I would like to be able to renegotiate contracts prior to their last year under contract.
EG. I traded for a catcher, he had 2 years left on his deal, i want to sign him to a longer deal, but i cant even negotiate with him until he only has one year left on his current contract.
You could do a "Re-Negotiate" button where the negotiate button is when there is more than one year left on a players deal.
I would like to be able to sign players who have yet to file for arbitration to long term deals.
EG.
I have a player in AAA who is 89-98, i want to negotiate a long term contract for him prior to him being eligible for arbitration.
I very much like contract incentives as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Surefire
Only 16% so far want radio style broadcasting !?!??! Man that is what is cool about APBA is the Ernie Harwell Broadcast blast .... I was thinking there would be more interest
*shrug*
I'd think that it'd get tiring after a while. I'd probably turn it off after listening to a couple of games. After all, when has there ever been an audio system like that in a game that isn't extremely repetative?
More importantly though, a radio style broadcasting option would only be usefull in PBP mode, which not everyone uses.
Like reading the scouting reports *joke*Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
true, true...
:)
you know, Clay posted the script file that generated the scouting reports a while ago. I think it was like a year or two ago, actually.
I wonder if he would consider doing so again?
I wanted to bump this idea back up. Great suggestion, changing "Play Half Season" to "Play Until Trade Deadline"Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay Dreslough
Definitely the half season thing is well (no disrespect to Clay) useless there are better alternatives:Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
All Star game (for those who like it,Im no fan)
trade deadline (my favourite )
September the 1st (expanded roster with the possibility of controlling who you would call up)
By the way I was reading Perry's report on Fox Sports about September Call ups & it was interesting to note that some teams DONT call up guys because they are in their Minors play offs I wonder if this is of any use for BM (I dont really have an opinion but thought Id mention this real life phenomena
why not more than one?Quote:
Originally Posted by FRENCHREDSOX
well, since there isn't really any "minor league playoffs", I don't think that it would make much sense. Really, I think that the focus should stay at the major league level. when you start talking about minor league scedules and actual game results, and minor league playoffs; well, that sort of thing is distracting from the primary game is what I think.Quote:
By the way I was reading Perry's report on Fox Sports about September Call ups & it was interesting to note that some teams DONT call up guys because they are in their Minors play offs I wonder if this is of any use for BM (I dont really have an opinion but thought Id mention this real life phenomena
Stop simming points should be determined after we know what will or will not be implemented for 2008 (ie if off season salary arbritration is implemented,Draft to June etc)
but yea if the 3 above were introduced without necessarily stopping at the other points in the chain definitely (Put this in your next poll to see consumers reaction & their stop dates) for it as stopping at mid season always seemed to me a weird/unimportant timeline
I loved it too, but I think people realize it's a TON of work. I wrote the commentary code for Tony La Russa Baseball 3 and Old Time Baseball. On MLB Slugfest we needed a full-time programmer to get the commentary working right, and that doesn't even include the sound engineer and studio time.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeViLzzz2006
Clay
You did !?!!?? Wow ..... uhmmm hey well since that is a no go I will settle for the PBP saved game feature ....
or wait ....
What about those Marlins cheerleaders ??? How about instead of new features you just send us a free Marlins cheerleaders baseball calendar ... hahahha
A couple things not added up there that i think would be cool is tv deals and watching live action of other games besides your own team. But i really like Bidding for free agents against the AI, radio commentary and the waiver wire ideas
Is it neccesary to have this thread stickied any more? This poll has some serious problems with it, not the least of which include that it's old.
I'm not asking for another poll to be stickeid or anything like that, it's just that it's probably about time to let this thread die with some respect. (unless of course Clay wants it stickied)
Well there's a bug in vBulletin that won't let me UNSTICKY really long threads. So we're stuck (literally) until we figure out how to fix that bug.
ouch... ok.
humm