I think there should be suspensions for fighting... and for more modern times' sake, (could just add-in like an injury) steroid use suspensions
Bidding for free agents against the AI (no immediate signings)
Waiver Wire
Manager Signings/Firings
Realistic 40-Man Roster Rules
Three-way trades
Enhanced Injury Engine (the ability to play hurt, e.g. "he's at 85%" etc.)
Stadium improvements (e.g. luxury suites, additional seats)
Backloaded Contracts (e.g. $3M in 2005, $4M in 2006, etc.)
Player Hot Streaks. More Morale Depth.
Editable Number of Pitchers Per Team and Roster Sizes
Expanded revenue options (merchandise, concessions, media contracts etc.)
Player-of-the-month (week, game) awards
Salary Caps and Revenue Sharing
Team Rivalries (with bean balls, brawls, and related news stories)
Computer-controlled owner (that sets your budget and/or fires you for poor performance)
Enhanced Play-By-Play: Triple Plays, Taking a Base on Defensive Indifference, Ejections, etc.
Editable League Structure, Interleague Play, and Playoffs
Minor-league TOTALS in Scouting Report
Schedule Editor
Playoff TOTALS in Scouting Report
Rule 5 Draft
Use a Pitcher as a Position Player or Vice Versa
Incentive Clauses
"Almanac" (automated yearly HTML output of all of stats, standings and leaders)
Other [non-lefty/right] split stats (home/away, day/night, runners-in-scoring-position, month-by-month)
More severe personality effects (e.g. "clubhouse poison")
Ability to Move Pitcher's Slot to any Position in the Batting Order
'History' Dialog lists all franchise years (not just the ones you controlled the team)
Auto-Sort Button for Strategies
Inflation (e.g. Babe Ruth earning $100,000 NOT $10,000,000)
New Screen and Dialog background artwork
'Team Options' Slider for Percentage of Games to start Alternate Starters
Computer-controlled commissioner (vetoes cash-only trades, disallows team movement, etc.)
Improved Sim Engine for Deadball Era (pre-1920)
Improved HTML output for running leagues
Team Stats Output - the ability to display, sort and print a range of team stats (not just in Standings)
Saveable Roster Dialog configurations
Full minor league teams (with their own schedules and box scores)
Radio-style audio commentary added to Play-By-Play
Other (please describe below)
I think there should be suspensions for fighting... and for more modern times' sake, (could just add-in like an injury) steroid use suspensions
When I first started playing BBM a couple of years ago one of my favorite features was the headlines section. Now you dont even need to scan through it you can just go to the transactions area and see all the no hitters are hit for the cycles at once. There needs to be an update to the headlines section...and zombie teams.
I think there should be random players taking steroids. suddenly your 85 contact 75 power guy turns into 90-85
and then you have to wonder: pills or improvement?
Bill Mueller was the best third baseman in the year 2003. He was not the best third baseman when I wrote my first signature, because that was in 2001...
Feature to actually run an expansion draft, using the real expansion rules, would be AWESOME . The computer would protect 15 players on each team, protecting 3 more every time a player is selected with a maxiumum of losing 3 players. The player would then select his/her 40 man roster.
How about the ability to add a 3rd league and'or a fourth division.
I second Sfsteves idea
I like that idea too. Not crucial, but very, very cool. The playoff format would be pretty different for 3 leagues though...
Yes, it would be nice to have the ability to add extra divisions, or make 4 wild card teams instead of 2, or have fewer than 140 games in a season if the player chooses.
I think this is what "editable league structure" in the poll refers to. So if the top ten or so features are added for next year, this will be in 2K7 too...
I just brought it up because it was mentioned in another thread.
How about having the amatuer draft mid-season like in real life. Might help with all of the force retiring from the flood of non-drafted people.
I'd like to see this with a new screen where you can see all of the undrafted players. This could also be the same as like a pre-draft player watch. I'm a lot more into that though so it may not be a big feature to everyone.Originally posted by BigBubba
How about having the amatuer draft mid-season like in real life. Might help with all of the force retiring from the flood of non-drafted people.
How about Wavier Trades?
How about teams relocating if they can't get a new Stadium or minor league team/stadium contract runs out?
How about cities applying for Expansion to join MLB?
How about design somebody for assignment?
How about having the minor leagues Playable?
How about using the Access Database (.mdb) version of the Lahman database to make it easier to add, edit or remove players stats ect.....
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