Future Version Requests

[Dark Horse]

Please allow us to name the championship trophy when there are no playoffs. It looks better than seeing Round 1 winner everywhere in the team and player histories.

Can we have a link on the league settings page that renames all ballparks in a league. When you first create a fictional league, the league is filled with random cities and random nicknames. It then gives every ballpark a generic name based on the city or nickname. But when i change the names of the teams, i am stuck with the old names. So i would need to rename each ballpark one by one.

Schedule Generator - when unbalanced schedule is selected allow us to pick how many games are played in division, out of division and interleague.

Have the ability to pick between more than one bbcard template, instead of having to delete one to add another.

[Dark Horse]

It looks like all owners in OOTP die and leave their teams to their sons. Couldn't we have it where some... at least half end up selling their teams? Or sometimes a minority partners buys the majority owner out?

Also, i would OOTP to note in the owner's history when he took over the team.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

It looks like all owners in OOTP die and leave their teams to their sons. Couldn't we have it where some... at least half end up selling their teams?

The selling of a club is certainly a long-standing part of real-life baseball. It would be relatively easy for a news article in OOTP to mention a sale price—based on Forbes' long-running annual club valuation reports, the price to purchase a club is roughly 2½ times its revenue. Factor in some variation (2–3 times the revenue) and it's done (other than the writing of such club sale articles, of course).

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

It looks like all owners in OOTP die and leave their teams to their sons. Couldn't we have it where some... at least half end up selling their teams? Or sometimes a minority partners buys the majority owner out?

Also, i would OOTP to note in the owner's history when he took over the team.

How does someone who's dead sell their team? Like real life, when people die their holdings go to their estate. During probate, decisions are made as to what will happen with the assets. In most cases, debts/claims against the estate are settled and then the balance goes to whomever it was left to in the will, usually the family, so I don't see a problem with that other than they could use the word "Estate" instead of "Son" or "Family". A follow-up as to what happens to the team would be nice for sure.

On a side note, Teams do get sold in OOTP.


The only part that I'd be concerned with would be how much time and work would have to be put into follow ons about the Estate settlement, etc. I don't know but would it be worth the time and effort?

[Dark Horse]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

The selling of a club is certainly a long-standing part of real-life baseball. It would be relatively easy for a news article in OOTP to mention a sale price—based on Forbes' long-running annual club valuation reports, the price to purchase a club is roughly 2½ times its revenue. Factor in some variation (2–3 times the revenue) and it's done (other than the writing of such club sale articles, of course).

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

How does someone who's dead sell their team? Like real life, when people die their holdings go to their estate. During probate, decisions are made as to what will happen with the assets. In most cases, debts/claims against the estate are settled and then the balance goes to whomever it was left to in the will, usually the family, so I don't see a problem with that other than they could use the word "Estate" instead of "Son" or "Family". A follow-up as to what happens to the team would be nice for sure.

On a side note, Teams do get sold in OOTP.


The only part that I'd be concerned with would be how much time and work would have to be put into follow ons about the Estate settlement, etc. I don't know but would it be worth the time and effort?

Thanks for the responses guys. i think i didn't make a thorough enough comment on what i was observing.

i've started a dynasty. And to provide some background i created 7 eight-team leagues that are in an association. These were meant to be a precursor to true professional leagues. After simming from 2175 - 2206, i merged two of the leagues to form a professional league. While doing research for the teams i wanted to write about, i've noticed that all of the teams have passed from the original owner to i'll say a male relative. What i am observing is at some point OOTP decides that the an owner can no longer keep the team. (i am assuming death, i didn't save the news in my almanacs.) And it is changing the owner ship to another person with the same last name; if not a Jr.

i don't want to turn this into a business sim. And this is not a "make or break" feature. i just think it is odd that in the 28 teams i've checked so far, if the team changed ownership, it stayed in the family.

Again, i'm not asking for a lot of detail. Just that sometimes when OOTP decides to change ownership, it goes to a different family. That wouldn't even need a new article. Instead of (paraphrasing) "John Doe is no longer the owner, John Doe Jr. is the new owner." make it "John Doe is no longer the owner, John Smith is the new owner."

[Dark Horse]

I should note, i don't have storylines checked, so that may be why i'm not seeing teams sold. But the suggestion is still same. When it is time for an ownership change, change the family name sometime.

[albatross11]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

Can we have a link on the league settings page that renames all ballparks in a league. When you first create a fictional league, the league is filled with random cities and random nicknames. It then gives every ballpark a generic name based on the city or nickname. But when i change the names of the teams, i am stuck with the old names. So i would need to rename each ballpark one by one.

Just asking, but how do you change the team names?

[Dark Horse]

Originally Posted by albatross11

Just asking, but how do you change the team names?

When i create a league i use advanced to because i use fictional worlds. But even if you have already created a league you can change the names. Go to league settings and click on League & Teams. You can change everything there league name, division names, team names and nicknames.

[Dark Horse]

i did a check of my pro teams. i checked their ownership in 2175 and again in 2206.
There are 52 teams.
7 teams have not changed ownership.
2 teams had new ownership go to someone outside of the family.
43 teams has new ownership go to someone inside of the family. (16 times it was to a Jr.)

So there were a couple of sells. But i would think it would be more.

[albatross11]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

When i create a league i use advanced to because i use fictional worlds. But even if you have already created a league you can change the names. Go to league settings and click on League & Teams. You can change everything there league name, division names, team names and nicknames.

Yeah, and ballpark names.

[Amazin69]

1) Historic coaches. It's great that my 1969 Mets now have Gil Hodges managing them, rather than "Hang-Fu Acret" or whatever. Now let's fill out the staff: Eddie Yost, Yogi Berra, Al "Rube" Walker (as opposed to his brother, Verlon "Rube" Walker, who was on the Cubs' staff), and Joe Pignatano, rather than the fictionals currently taking their spots. Not only is this emotionally satisfying for those of us who remember the staff, but it increases the chance of a real-world manager filling some future vacancy, rather than a random fictional coach. And it's not as if we don't have the data; just as with the managers, this is a one-and-done.

Likewise, we should have historic owners, and historic minor-league managers. Let's give Mrs. Payson and Judge Hofheinz and Gene Autry and Gen. Quesada their due. And let's give the Ed Nottles of the world a chance to succeed and make the show, just as the players they nurture get. Once more, this is a bit of work, but less difficult that the historic minor leagues done for v. 17 and once it's done, it's done.

2) Have the "team history" in the team's information section list the manager, so that when you look back at the progress of your league, you can see the various "eras" for a team, the ebb and flow, without having to search every manager's individual record to see when each man took the reins. (Assuming you could even remember all of them.)

3) During the reserve era, there should be more storylines about players holding out for more money before reporting to spring training, and perhaps even jumping the team during the season. (I've never seen any such thing, but it might already be there.) With no free agency or prospect thereof, this was the only leverage players had, so let's see them use it.

As always, thanks in advance.

[BigRed75]

I love all of those suggestions, particularly the real-life coaching staff one.

[Dark Horse]

We should be able to know what players are having problems. Why not have a player relationship page like the managers have?

For instance, if Erik Padgett was a player that was complaining, we would know that Dave Lincoln is the problem.

[Dark Horse]

And if Dave Lincoln's page looked like Allen Chilton's page. It might be an easy decision. Unless Lincoln was the OOTP version of Ty Cobb or Barry Bonds...

[Dark Horse]

I would like to have Association Power Rankings for all teams in the same level. That way if i have three separate college leagues. We could have all of the those teams together in a ranking. Or if you have rival leagues the PCL and the MLB. Or the 1900s AL & NL... and when the Federal League started.

It gives us a way to compare teams from different leagues. And it gives us writers something else to expand upon.

i would suggest making the size directly proportional (20%) to the number of combined teams; with a minimum 5 teams and a maximum 25 teams. So three eight team leagues in an association would have (8*3)*.20=4.8 a 5 team power ranking. And four ten team leagues in an association would have (10*4)*.20= an 8 team power ranking.