Baseball Mogul 2007 Feature Poll

[SkyDog]

As per Clay's request. Comment away, gents.

[SkyDog]

For me, the #1 new feature I'd request is an "Almanac" of some sort--an automated yearly output (preferably HTML) of all of the stats, leader boards, etc. of your league. The best I've seen is the CatoBase for OOTP, which looks like this: http://ngbl.exoverge.com/UAL/catobase/index.html

If stats output at the level of catobase could be added to Mogul 2007, and the current feature set refined to work well (FA signing AI tightened up, player personalities making a little more sense, etc.), it would make it worth the price of purchase for me without any other features.

After an almanac, I'd list them in the following order:

1. Enhanced Injury Engine (the ability to play hurt, e.g. "he's at 85%" etc.)--Would greatly help realism. As things stand currently, not nearly enough guys are playing 158-162 games, and one reason is that they can't play hurt.

2. More severe personality effects (e.g. "clubhouse poison") --This, along with a little more logical definition to the personalities (no more guys who are "Serious but silly", for example), would be very nice.

3. Player-of-the-month (week, game) awards--Would add a little more flavor to things.

Also, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PUT RBI NEXT TO HR ON THE PLAYER CARD, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!! There's virtually nowhere, other than Mogul, that you'll see baseball stats done any other way.

[SkyDog]

One more...

"Bidding" for free agents against the AI.--Rather than immediately being able to sign a guy, enter your bid, and AI teams enter bids, too

[boomboom]

isnt drag and drop included in 2k6?

[boomboom]

an auto-sort lock feature is a must.


basically, when somebody gets hurt, i have already put my minor league player in a certain order, then the stupid CPU ruins all my work i did...4 example: like a 80+ player in A ball instead of AAA. I would love to see this feature....

i think that a check box next to the players would be the best...

or even just a major league roster autosort only, and then a minor league autosort button.

[Clay Dreslough]

Originally posted by SkyDog
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, PUT RBI NEXT TO HR ON THE PLAYER CARD, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!! There's virtually nowhere, other than Mogul, that you'll see baseball stats done any other way.

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

[SkyDog]

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

Yes!!! That's how virtually every baseball card I had as a boy was laid out (except that OBP and SLG weren't there in those days), and a much more standard way of doing it. I just checked, and that is also pretty much identical to Baseball Reference, too.

[21C]

Please add:

Team Stats Output - the ability to display, sort and print a range of team stats ( not just through the standings screen ). Like below.

 Tm    R/G    R    G    AB    H    2B   3B  HR   BB    SO    BA   OBP   SLG   SB   CS  OPS+
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+
 STL  5.28   855  162  5555  1544  319  24  214  548  1085  .278  .344  .460  111   47 116
 SFG  5.25   850  162  5546  1500  314  33  183  705   874  .270  .357  .438   43   23 109
 PHI  5.19   840  162  5643  1505  303  23  215  645  1133  .267  .345  .443  100   27 107
 COL  5.14   833  162  5577  1531  331  34  202  568  1181  .275  .345  .455   44   33  96
 ATL  4.96   803  162  5570  1503  304  37  178  587  1158  .270  .343  .434   86   32 106
 HOU  4.96   803  162  5468  1458  294  36  187  590   999  .267  .342  .436   89   30 106
 CHC  4.87   789  162  5628  1508  308  29  235  489  1080  .268  .328  .458   66   28 102
 SDP  4.74   768  162  5573  1521  304  32  139  566   910  .273  .342  .414   52   25 108
 LAD  4.70   761  162  5542  1450  226  30  203  536  1092  .262  .332  .423  102   41 104
 CIN  4.63   750  162  5518  1380  287  28  194  599  1335  .250  .331  .418   77   25 106
 FLA  4.43   718  162  5486  1447  275  32  148  499   968  .264  .329  .406   96   43  99
 NYM  4.22   684  162  5532  1376  289  20  185  512  1159  .249  .317  .409  107   23  92
 PIT  4.22   680  161  5483  1428  267  39  142  415  1066  .260  .321  .401   63   40  94
 MIL  3.94   634  161  5483  1358  295  32  135  540  1312  .248  .321  .387  138   40  92
 MON  3.92   635  162  5474  1361  276  27  151  496   925  .249  .313  .392  109   38  90
 ARI  3.80   615  162  5544  1401  295  38  135  441  1022  .253  .310  .393   53   32  84
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+----+---+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+
 Tot  4.64 12018 2590 88622 23271 4687 494 2846 8736 17299  .263  .329  .423 1336  527

 Tm   R/G    RA    G   ERA    IP    H    H/G    BB  BB/G  HR    SO   CG  SHO  SV ERA+
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---+---+---+
 ATL  4.12   668  162  3.74  1450  1475   9.1   523  3.2  154  1025    4  13  48 115
 STL  4.07   659  162  3.75  1453  1378   8.5   440  2.7  169  1041    4  12  57 112
 CHC  4.10   665  162  3.81  1465  1363   8.4   545  3.4  169  1346    3   6  42 118
 LAD  4.22   684  162  4.01  1453  1386   8.6   521  3.2  178  1066    2   6  51 103
 SDP  4.35   705  162  4.03  1441  1460   9.0   422  2.6  184  1079    3   8  44 100
 HOU  4.31   698  162  4.05  1443  1416   8.7   525  3.2  174  1282    2  13  47 106
 NYM  4.51   731  162  4.09  1449  1452   9.0   592  3.7  156   977    2   6  31 104
 FLA  4.32   700  162  4.10  1439  1395   8.6   513  3.2  166  1116    6  14  53 100
 MIL  4.70   757  161  4.24  1442  1440   8.9   476  3.0  164  1098    6  10  42  97
 PIT  4.62   744  161  4.29  1428  1451   9.0   576  3.6  149  1079    3   8  46  96
 SFG  4.75   770  162  4.29  1457  1481   9.1   548  3.4  161  1020    8   8  46 102
 MON  4.75   769  162  4.33  1447  1477   9.1   582  3.6  191  1032   11  11  31  96
 PHI  4.82   781  162  4.45  1462  1488   9.2   502  3.1  214  1070    4   5  43  98
 ARI  5.55   899  162  4.98  1436  1480   9.1   668  4.1  197  1153    5   6  33  89
 CIN  5.60   907  162  5.19  1443  1595   9.8   572  3.5  236   992    5   8  47  77
 COL  5.70   923  162  5.54  1435  1634  10.1   697  4.3  198   947    3   2  36  91
+---+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-----+----+---+---+---+
 TOT  4.64 12060 2590  4.30 23146 23371   9.0  8702  3.4 2860 17323   71 136 697

[LankfordFanClub]

Clay, could you make the RBI move an option on the player's cards? I'm used to it being where it is in Mogul.

[liveandletdie]

Editable Vital Stats - I seriously want to make all of the players vital stats editable too. It bugs me seeing all these rookies in 2005 with the same random information.

Advanced Hall Of Fame (induct players from before your game started) - This is a MUST! The game should be able to pick hall of famers from earlier years other then never being put in. (players in 2005 like Wade Boggs, Roger Maris, David Cone, Rickey Henderson etc.)

The Lahman Id as Picture Id - Change the picture files from the first 10 letters of their name to their lahman id number, so the Mark Mclemores, Luis Gonzalez's etc. have different pictures

Advanced Expansion - Have the power to control when teams expand or move or make it random. This means making your or expansions. Also being able to play with the team.

Possible 4 Divisions - this would be nice, but not necessary.

More awards/milestones - Beat so and so in the top ten homerun hitters, 1st game, last game, Silver Slugger, Triple Crown, #1 hitting catcher ever to present, perhaps even the Roberto Clemente and Hutch awards too.

General Manager Scouting Report - How cool would it be to have your manegering skills scouted? Also same with the computer GMs.

MOST IMPORTANT

Waivers System - we BADLY need a waivers system. Computer controlled teams constantly put 80+ overall players in the minor league. There perfectly good players and could be used greatly by smaller teams.

Rule 5 Draft So we don't have the problem of these 27 year old rookies staying in the same minor league system for 10 years!

40 Man Roster - So we don't have to bring up these guys in Single - A who are some of our best prospects whenever someone gets injured, just put someone in the 40 man on the team.

[SFSteveG]

The waivers system and rule V draft are necessary.

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


Almost forgot; how about 2 A ball clubs. Most MLB teams have 3 and it's often the level where a guy either makes it or not. The ability to not put all of your hope into one guy at the A level would be great. This would probably work well with the Auto-sort minors function.

[hawkeye3200]

Something I'd like to see is to have the Team>History window display a team's entire history, instead of just the years that you've played. It'd make it seem more like your team is part of the franchise's history, instead of being isolated from the past.

[robinhoodnik]

1 Separate the major and minor auto sort
2 I'd love stadium improvements Building a new Fenway just to boost revenue kills me.
3 Three way trades while I hadn't thought of it before, would be lots of fun.
4 Manager signings is a really good one. Season Ticket Baseball had it, it seemed like a good idea. (I found that game too difficult to monkey with to be worth the trouble to play.)
5 Revenue sharing yes. Salary cap only as an option.
6 Computer controlled commish as an option.
7 Computer Owner as an option.
8 Free agent bidding as an option.With some sort of market indicator, if you get in a bidding war it'd be useful to be able to see what other players have signed for.
9 Other #1 How 'bout September call ups?
10 Other #2 More space for stats on the leaderboard. I hate only being able to see two to four stats at a time. I'd like at least Wins, K's, ERA, Saves, and AVG.,HR,RBI,AND Hits, to be on the screen at the same time.

[robinhoodnik]

Other #3 Luxury tax would be good and could be used as a way to prevent star stacking.

[boomboom]

Originally posted by LankfordFanClub
Clay, could you make the RBI move an option on the player's cards? I'm used to it being where it is in Mogul.

i like the old way too....