Feedback Needed / OOTP 11 Features

[professor ape]

Please, please, please let us set the game to save box scores, play by play, and replays at a league level. The choices of 'All Leagues', 'Human Leagues', and 'No Leagues' are not effective particularly when I am plying in God Mode and don't technically have a 'Human League'. That means that I either have to save them for my entire universe or not at all. This is incredibly annoying.

[conception]

Originally Posted by robc

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5) I version of play by play that doesn't give anything extra. Again, this would be like PureSim. I don't want to see the player's season average or anything. Just a description of the actual play. I would also like the play by play to give obvious feedback to how fielders perform. For example, if a lesser fielder wouldn't have got to a ball, say so. I know that sometimes the PbP says great play and stuff but I have no idea if it is based on the play or it's essentially making up random descriptions.

I think OOTP PBP is pretty darn good. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't continue to improve, but a lot of people (like me) really like that it includes stuff like stats and other colorizations into it. It any a lot of other features make the game seem more like a real PBP transcript. Of course, if you've simmed hundreds of games like I do, you do start to recognize a lot of phrases, but I'm honestly surprised that I haven't found it to be 100 percent stale.

I'm not sure if it does factor fielding ability into the actual PBP or not. I know that I do see bad defensive players make good defensive plays every now and then. Still, it wouldn't surprise me if it is factored in the PBP.

[robc]

Originally Posted by conception

I think OOTP PBP is pretty darn good. That doesn't mean that it shouldn't continue to improve, but a lot of people (like me) really like that it includes stuff like stats and other colorizations into it. It any a lot of other features make the game seem more like a real PBP transcript. Of course, if you've simmed hundreds of games like I do, you do start to recognize a lot of phrases, but I'm honestly surprised that I haven't found it to be 100 percent stale.

I'm not sure if it does factor fielding ability into the actual PBP or not. I know that I do see bad defensive players make good defensive plays every now and then. Still, it wouldn't surprise me if it is factored in the PBP.

I didn't mean to say eliminate the current PbP. Right now there are 2 options for it (Short and Full). I would like a 3rd option (like basic or limited). It would only have the essential info needed to get the results of the play. I don't want to take out features other players enjoy. Sorry for the confusion.

[Muzamba]

Just wanted to let everyone know I've got a new mock-up on the way for this weekend. This one will focus on the Game/League Setup screens. I'll be posting it in a new thread, so keep an eye out for it if you're interested.

[Dark Horse]

Graphics
• baseball card

• make the picture larger in game
o i’d like to see more of the player without losing detail; show the player from the waist up and show all of the sleeve. This allows for adding patches or stripes to the sleeves.

• home/away/special uniforms

• place number on uniforms
o additionally option to place number in certain area or not have it at all

• create a championship page that can be captured (print screen)
o this can be done if trophy was reduced on page

• backgrounds based on teams or leagues

• allow us to pick race for GM picture

[sparty567]

OK, admittedly I have not read through this entire thread, so apologies if somebody else already posted this.

It would be great if we could create custom stats to appear in player info screens. For example, if I wanted to show a hitter's wOBA or pitcher's FIP every time I clicked on each player's name, I could pull data from existing stats that OOTP compiles, and basically tell it to perform a specific calulation, and then give that column a heading, etc.

As an extension of that, it would be great if we could add a similar function to the stats screen that shows each team's stats. Then you could maybe find things like OPS+, FIP+, etc.

Not sure if this is even possible, but I would get great use of it.

[gglennwill]

1. A weekly magazine with interesting stats about the season so far, sabermetric info, game/series predictions/matchups etc. Puresim has this already.
2. Automatic real-life player transactions for historical gamers. Diamond Mind has this.
3. Real life Manager Profiles so that clubs are managed the same way they were in real life, for historical gamers.

[jetking]

Originally Posted by WarningTrack

Graphs.

Example: I like to sim historical seasons. At the end of the season, I'd like to revisit the pennant race and be able to see which teams faded - or monumentally choked - down the stretch. If I do a whole season on auto-pilot, it's impossible to tell how the season actually played out beyond the final standings.

This. Oh god, this please.

[Malleus Dei]

I sure hope that Markus is reading this thread and taking copious notes for 11.

[lordchaos]

I heard one organiztion say they simulated the World Series between the Yankees and Phillies 10,000 times and reported the Yankees won the series 75% of the time. Would be cool to do this in OOTP 11. Massive Rapid Simulations with statistical reports.

[megamanmatt]

Make the "Owner's budget" more flexible. Most team's "budgets" in real life are far more flexible and allow for some room to move. Half the time I can't find trade partners due to teams not having the budget space. Either that or let us edit it like many of the other financial features under the League Rules. Maybe an 'average budget' entry or something like that.

[wiggins]

I play out and manage every game my team plays. 162 games a season. So that's where I start. I would love to be able to have more interaction with my players. As an example, I have a player who played ND last year and I'm moving him to ST this season. Coincidently, or not He came in to the season with a 2 work ethic. I don't remember him as a two last year. He was a model citizen. His ratings have also dropped. I want to "Put him in the Doghouse" but there is no way in the game to do that. I believe it would help the immersion factor a lot for those of us who are non simmers. one on one meetings, pep talks, It doesn't have to be to deep, just some sort of mechanism.

[Malleus Dei]

Never mind.

[wiggins]

Sorry about that. I moved him from 2nd base to 1st base.

[mgom27]

Disposal Draft because lets say I have a League I want to delete but don't want to make the people Free-Agents but be Drafted by other teams they could be but if you have more then one League you would have to pick which one to use
The Option for you to replace somebody in the middle of the Postseason like the Yankees just did with Pena replacing Melky on the Roster.

[Number42]

Please, please, PLEASE change the Simulating screen from a useless, worthless, unhelpful, boring pretend psuedo-newspaper (standings, headlines, league leaders) to something more in line with what might interest what we are pretending to be - general managers of a baseball team.

It can't be that much more difficult or time consuming to show a daily update of a team's batter and pitcher stats, than it is to calculate and display the update of league leaders and standings. The headlines are very difficult to read and of little interest anyway.

Surely, someone else is bugged by this?

[conception]

Originally Posted by Number42

Please, please, PLEASE change the Simulating screen from a useless, worthless, unhelpful, boring pretend psuedo-newspaper (standings, headlines, league leaders) to something more in line with what might interest what we are pretending to be - general managers of a baseball team.

It can't be that much more difficult or time consuming to show a daily update of a team's batter and pitcher stats, than it is to calculate and display the update of league leaders and standings. The headlines are very difficult to read and of little interest anyway.

Surely, someone else is bugged by this?

I think most people like the Sim screen. Certainly, I think you have an idea for what it could become that if done right wouldn't be a bad thing either, but even though we can't read the articles during simming, seeing the headlines scroll by (which is all they are really supposed to be in sim mode) and having the stats and standings really helps to keep in touch with the league.

[Dark Horse]

Managers & GMs

• allow GMs to hire coaches and not have ratings affect the game

• add more coaches; 1st base, 3rd base, bullpen coach
o these don’t necessarily need to have special ratings
o it can be a place to put recently retired player or a team’s favorite players, and if they develop coaching skills they can get a promotion

• have coaches and managers’ names included in news reports, play-by-play

• AI Managers should value players differently.
o This would allow us to create different Managers
o Used when manager fills out his roster.
o Use existing sliders.

• Favor Defense or Offense
• Favor Speed or Power
• Favor OBP or AVG

o Allow sliders to be set up for each position (C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF)
o For pitchers, add new sliders

• Make separate sliders for (SP, MR, CL)
• Give level (1-5) of importance of major ratings
  • Stuff
  • Movement
  • Control
  • Velocity
  • Stamina
  • GB%

o When viewing draft pools, free agent lists, rule 5 lists, players should be listed (in game) based on slider set up. This also, makes the sliders useful for human managers.

• AI GMs should value players differently.
o This would allow us to create different GMs.
o Use the existing sliders

• Favor Veterans or Prospects
• Favor Pitching or Hitting

o Add new sliders

• Favor Best Available Player or Player at Needed Position
• Favor College or High School

o Used for making trades.
o Used in conjunction with Manager for drafting. Again, this makes the sliders useful for human GMs; especially in online leagues.

[thbroman]

I have nothing decisive to add to the many good suggestions that have already been made, so let me just add my support for a couple in particular:

1. More variable personalities for both GM's and managers
2. An ability for players to improve their fielding over time
3. More options for choosing which data to savge and which to not have saved. No matter what the version, I find that I always have a lot of stuff to manually discard.

I have one particular hobby horse that I have been ridiing for years now, which is for independent minor leagues from which you can scout and sign players. This comes with a host of other things, such as a financial system for the minors, so I know it won't be easy. And also, I think the only other person who is really interested in taking this route is LGO, so maybe the lobby for this is pretty small! But well, there it is . . . .

[tehwholeworld]

- ROOGY/LOOGY option for pitchers
- pinch hitter depth charts; This was in OOTP 6.5, why shouldn't it be in OOTPX/11?
- a defensive stat that actually matters (such as UZR)
- cash on hand applying to future seasons as opposed to just the current
- a system that doesn't randomly create your budget way below your revenue from the previous season
- minor league reports that don't suggest players should be in minor league levels that don't actually exist in the league
- proof that Markus actually cares about online leagues as opposed to merely historical simmers
- the ability to turn off the personality system completely and not just hide the ratings
- ability to schedule promotions to draw more fans; this was in OOTP 6.5, why shouldn't it be in OOTPX/11?
- the expanded stat screen to actually show HR/9 instead of making the user calculate it themselves; it's on the leaderboards page, why isn't it in player profiles?
- expanded stats in the player profile such as FB%, GB%, LD% since the engine tracks that stuff anyway
- ratings not getting sorted by value with only potential ratings on