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Originally Posted by Curtis Cook
Not confusing, but I tried it (for this universe, actually) and couldn't make it work. I wanted to GM the Ham Fighters in the Nippon League and the Chinese National Team in the China League. I tried two or three times to get it to recognize both human managers, but everytime I tried to close out that panel and proceed to the game, it would jumble the managers. Their names would change, their names would reverse, parts of their names would change. I didn't know if that had any real game meaning, but it worried me. Since I knew I was going to be putting in hundreds of hours setting this thing up, I didn't want to invest that time and then find out that something more serious than names was screwed up, so I decided to abandon the China League and just play as Nippon.
Thank you guys for your interest. I broke down and played my first three games last night, to take me up to the end of the waiver period (none of my players were claimed, which I don't understand, but I'm loving it). I went 1 for 3, beating a team better than I am, and losing to a worse team and the team that I'm guessing will win the division.
My relief staff has been fairly impressive, allowing no runs in ten innings, but the starters have coughed up 13 in 17 innings. All of my 21 position players got at least two plate appearances, but nine of them are hitless so far, and no one is hitting over .286 (2 for 7). I've scored seven runs so far, three by my minor league starters and four by the IL leaguers I'm bringing in as late inning substitutes (they've gotten about a third of the PAs).
Someone wrote in to complain about how hard it is to gain experience, even in Spring Training, but I'm finding it too easy. My three starting outfielders rose three points each in position rating after only 13 fielding innings. I had guessed that experience would accrue at the rate of maybe one point per nine innings in the field, twice that in S.T., but I grossly underestimated. The first time I tried to drag a substitute in to pinch hit, I accidently landed him on the pitcher's slot, then the game wouldn't let me change my mind. Anyway, I quickly replaced him with a reliever, but the next day he showed up as having accrued three experience for not having thrown a single pitch!
I do have some more questions: How many S.T. games are there? I was originally thinking thirty, but now I'm wondering about that. And are there any scheduled rest days? I don't think there's a schedule grid where I can check that, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
I did turn my statistics level up from minimum to normal, so I am accum,ulating stats after the two games I missed. Does anyone know if I'll have to keep it at normal for the regular season? I'm really disappointed that I can't get team or league stats during S.T. Would I get them if I moved the stat index higher yet?
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I have a few more suggestions, if I may and you're willing.
First, the GM problem sounds familiar. Sometimes when you edit them, they get garbled because it's not being done in some precise manner that escapes me right now. At least, that's how I remember it. Try deleting your old GM's and creating (adding) new ones altogether, if you don't mind losing career records. Follow YankeePride's advice.
As far as the number of games, your figure seems about right. You can see how many by looking at your team's Schedule tab; they are on there, but the only problem is that they are not labeled as such so it may be a bit difficult knowing which are ST and which are regular season games.
I think you get ST stats on normal; but I don't know for sure. I know why you have stats down to minimal - you mention your game slowness in other posts. Still, I would leave stats at normal if you can tolerate the lack of speed; there's no telling what else you may be missing with low level stats. I don't think stats building is retroactive, either, when you do decide to dial them upward.