Avoiding great players - Page 2

ctorg · 04-09-2008, 08:17 AM

A superstar player not being signed has an obvious enough cause, that being that he's so good that his contract demands are above what any team can afford. However, the game needs to recognize this and make adjustments.

The sign and release issue is something different altogether. I sometimes wonder if it points to a deeper flaw in how the game determines players' value.

Long_Long_Name · 04-09-2008, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ctorg

Another way to override it would be to go into the player editor and manually assign the guy to a team, and then enter his contract info.

Indeed it is. However, it does not include news stories, and makes it impossible to include clauses, as far as I know. It is pretty simple, though.

Who Killed Kenny? · 04-09-2008, 12:34 PM

I wonder if he took a massive ratings hit before he was updated. In the league I was playing a former 20 game winner dropped completely off the map before he was 25. His scouted ratings (and I use scouts) still saw him as a major league calibar player, but his actual ratings and potentials were terrible. Perhaps the AI knows something that you don't.

shercot · 04-09-2008, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by redsoxford

Yes, when a player gets marked as retired during the course of a season, he still has all his ratings intact. Once the game is saved, he gets put in retired.dat and the major difference between retired.dat and players.dat is that the batting/pitching/fielding ratings get removed, with the exception of BABIP - because this was a new field added at a later date and somehow missed the retired cull.

That's interesting.

It occurred to me to manually edit the guy and make him a decent player again, but I had no idea what his numbers were to begin with, so I just gave up. Heck, maybe the guy got blackballed over spit-tobacco or something.

shercot · 04-09-2008, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Who Killed Kenny?

I wonder if he took a massive ratings hit before he was updated. In the league I was playing a former 20 game winner dropped completely off the map before he was 25. His scouted ratings (and I use scouts) still saw him as a major league calibar player, but his actual ratings and potentials were terrible. Perhaps the AI knows something that you don't.

That would be my first guess, except that within about two years, the game tried to kill three outstanding players without explanation. The guy who kept getting released every other week was the truly weird case.

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04-09-2008, 12:34 PM	#23 (permalink)
Who Killed Kenny? Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 216	I wonder if he took a massive ratings hit before he was updated. In the league I was playing a former 20 game winner dropped completely off the map before he was 25. His scouted ratings (and I use scouts) still saw him as a major league calibar player, but his actual ratings and potentials were terrible. Perhaps the AI knows something that you don't.