Sports Mogul's Next Game

[cartman00000001]

Baseball Mogul Online has some issues to work out. Get that right before going to new things.

[robinhoodnik]

I love playing and watching soccer but I'm not sure i's be into the team management aspect. Inless their are minors and the like. I just don't know as much about it.

What I know about soccer: (1) I played it in elementary and middle school gym classes by force. (2) The kids who were not skilled enough to play baseball or big enough to play American football played it. (3) My 7 year old daughter plays it well (so her coach tells me) and so did Rod Stewart (4) It looks like hockey without ice. (5) It looks like hockey without the beer. (5) No one is in the stadium during the MLS games. (6) It looks like hockey without all the fighting . (2) What the H#ll is a striker anyways?

[cartman00000001]

What I know about soccer: (1) I played it in elementary and middle school gym classes by force. (2) The kids who were not skilled enough to play baseball or big enough to play American football played it. (3) My 7 year old daughter plays it well (so her coach tells me) and so did Rod Stewart (4) It looks like hockey without ice. (5) It looks like hockey without the beer. (5) No one is in the stadium during the MLS games. (6) It looks like hockey without all the fighting . (2) What the H#ll is a striker anyways?

LOL funny stuff. I think soccer has been shoved down our throats. So what if everyone else in the world plays it! I want cricket mogul!!

P.S. Striker was in the Airplane movies.

[Lunch]

What I know about soccer: (1) I played it in elementary and middle school gym classes by force. (2) The kids who were not skilled enough to play baseball or big enough to play American football played it. (3) My 7 year old daughter plays it well (so her coach tells me) and so did Rod Stewart (4) It looks like hockey without ice. (5) It looks like hockey without the beer. (5) No one is in the stadium during the MLS games. (6) It looks like hockey without all the fighting . (2) What the H#ll is a striker anyways?

You should go to a Celtic Vs Rangers game sometime

[robinhoodnik]

LOL funny stuff. I think soccer has been shoved down our throats. So what if everyone else in the world plays it! I want cricket mogul!!

P.S. Striker was in the Airplane movies.

Or maybe Clay could expand the historical aspect to include rounders and town ball players!

[robinhoodnik]

You should go to a Celtic Vs Rangers game sometime

I'd pay BIG money to see the New England Revolution take on the New England Patriots

[walruswaspaul68]

How's this for an idea: Baseball Mogul for the Cellphone..........

[leftcoast]

You should go to a Celtic Vs Rangers game sometime

I'd pay BIG money to see the New England Revolution take on the New England Patriots

Your chance to see Celtic vs Rangers is this Saturday, as Gordon Strachan's Bhoys take on Gers in a (futile?) last chance attempt to save Alex McLeish's job as manager at half seven on the pitch at Celtic Park. Gers hoping to reverse utterly shambolic play of late.

Of course, if you were holding out for viewing Revolution (football - New England) vs Patriots (american football - New England) or even Celtics (basketball - Boston) vs Rangers (hockey - New York) on the other side of the pond, you may have to wait a wee bit longer.

Given that 98+% on leftcoast US (nor the right coast US for that matter..) had nary a scooby on what any of that blather meant, they probably are still trying to envisage why someone would recommend an unlikely cross-sport match.

Cheers
leftcoast


(p.s. astounding what a yankee can pick up in several trips to Glasgow and regular listening to Ruffy on Real radio Football phone in knowing bugger all about this classic rivalry not too long back...)

[robinhoodnik]

Well now that is different. I understand now. Soccer, over there, Celtic vs. Rangers. I have heard of a soccer team with that name but the N.Y. Rangers is the one that comes to mind first. Never heard of another franchise called the Celtics though. However I would still pay big for the NFL/MLS matchup.

[ltt]

I love playing and watching soccer but I'm not sure i's be into the team management aspect. Inless their are minors and the like. I just don't know as much about it.

Clay's right - no point in Mogul jumping into this market. Championship Manager is hands-down the best sports management sim I've ever played (at least the 01-02 version). No minors per se, but you have a reserve squad for youth players, and lower-league teams essentially perform the same task as minor-league squads in BBM. CM is incredibly detailed, and might be a bit daunting for someone unfamiliar with the game, but the depth of the gameplay is stunning and worth it.

The game also has some of the features I'd love to see Clay incorporate into the Mogul games like hiring coaches, managing player training, and retiring players potentially becoming coaches.

MLS had better attendance than Hockey last season.

[Clay Dreslough]

MLS had better attendance than Hockey last season.

My daughter's school play had better attendance than Hockey last season.

[SFSteveG]

MLS had better attendance than Hockey last season.

I had better attendance at work last night. And only half our crew showed up.

[leafs91]

After reading all 8 pages +1 and playing Eastside Hockey Manager, which is a very very good sim game but has some flaws. Some of the good things about it is that it has real players down to the age of 15/16. I have a friend who was drafted into the CHL last year and he and i both found it so cool that he was in a game already. That is something ive never heard of in any other game. If you really do your homework for hockey mogul and combine it with what youve already done with baseball mogul you could have a good competitor with EHM in the ever growing population of hockey fans. (Highest Attendence for the month of November in 10 years this year)

[Clay Dreslough]

I had better attendance at work last night. And only half our crew showed up.

Your MOM had better attendance last night.

[Northern Brave]

Okay well having read through I agree with Leafs, hockey mogul would sell well especially if done similar to baseball mogul and with some good added in things... I've looked at EHM and just don't like it... too **** much that is the nice thing about Mogul... easy to use and good to go right from the start... always a selling feature. There is such a thing as too much. It's like BM vs OOTP....

Now the other notion much like basketball is the lack of a database... now EA NHL uses a mog file, which is editable with NHL View program, so perhaps could use that mog file as a db making current rosters as available as the online EA Hockey persons put them out... there's a few sites too so plenty of rosters available. Not only that but there's also rosters made for international, CHL, AHL etc.

I'd not buy a basketball game as don't like basketball but thinking basketball and hockey would do quite well.... after that the sports get very niche market or I'd say Lacross too but...

Honestly could see the baseball mogul engine modified to hockey... similar interface really with ability to hire/fire coaches, set lineups, perhaps set up the minors slightly different but similar.... drafting is there as is schedule and set ups for conference and division ( it's similar to what we already have in baseball ) and of course minor tweaks to building arenas instead of diamonds, and of course there's the newspaper too!! Modify it to be say... Hockey News Digest or something cool like that and it would work...

I'd vote for hockey over basketball but only because my interests would go in that direction.