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Old 07-03-2007, 08:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Post Suggestions: Drafts

This suggestion thread is designed to collect suggestions for the next version of OOTP, on the following topic:

Drafts

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- Features and suggestions related to drafts: inaugural, amateur, Rule 5, expansion

Excludes
- Non-draft stuff

Instructions
We will use this thread to collect suggestions on the above topic. Later on, we hope to present this information back to the community in a way that would allow you to vote and prioritize certain features.

If you would like to participate, here are the rules!
  1. Only 1 suggestion per post.
  2. Suggestions must be on-topic for the thread.
  3. Constructive, non-inflammatory suggestions only.
  4. No comments on others' suggestions are necessary. That means, we don't need 15 posts in the thread saying "Great idea!" or "I agree!"
  5. Please don't link to other forum threads as your way of making suggestions. ("My suggestion can be found HERE.") If it's important enough to you that you want it in this thread, then it should be important enough to put it in the format I've asked for here!
  6. You can certainly post suggestions that conflict with or build upon earlier suggestions.
  7. Mockups are welcomed, they really help Markus see what you're interested in accomplishing.
Format for Suggestions

Suggestion
What is your suggestion? Be as specific as possible; include the screen you're talking about, if applicable.

Reason
Why do you think this is important? If this is to correct what you perceive as a problem in OOTP 2007, what is that problem? Be as specific as possible.

Priority
In your opinion, how important is this suggestion?
High (MUST have), Medium (should have), Low (nice to have))


Handy Cut-and-Paste Suggestion Form:

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Old 07-03-2007, 08:39 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Create a draft pick report that tells each team what specific picks they own in the next draft (or successive drafts, if future draft picks are implemented, hint hint!).

Something like this:

Phillies
Upcoming Draft Pick Report for 2007
>>
Round>>
Pick #*>>
Overall #*>>
Notes>>
1
8
8
>>
2
8
24
>>
2
16
32
Acquired from Boston via trade on 10/18/06 trade
3
8
40
>>
4
8
56
>>
5
8
72
>>

>>
Note: This report shows the projected pick number based on the current standings.>>


Reason
Currently, there is no way to understand the draft order in the upcoming draft, or remember if you've traded draft picks, without looking through transaction logs and such.

Priority
High

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Old 07-03-2007, 09:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Suggestion

Either a rule 5 draft report/log, as exists for the amateur draft, or an email message informing me of players lost in the Rule 5 draft.

Reason

If I auto-complete the Rule 5 draft, the only way to find out which players I've is by trawling through the Transactions Log, which is normally cluttered with all the same-day promotions and demotions AI teams have made in preparation for the draft.

Priority

Low, but would be helpful and presumably easy to implement.

(note: This was recently logged as a feature request in Tech Support)
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Old 07-03-2007, 09:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Base rookie draft order on team winning % over the past 3 seasons combined, instead of just previous season's record. Do not base this on # of games won over the past 3 seasons, use winning % because if you don't do this expansion teams will undeservedly get the top draft picks 3 years in a row even if they have good seasons. It would also be nice to have an NBA lottery style draft order in which the worst teams have a high likelihood of getting the top picks but not an absolute guarantee.

Reason
As far as I know MLB calculates the draft order based on previous 3 seasons, and it would probably lead to more competetive balance. It would also make it less tempting to have a fire sale or "throw" a season in historicals just to get a great player in next year's draft (i.e. Babe Ruth).

Priority
Medium
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Old 07-03-2007, 10:33 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Create an "Inaugural Draft Preference" that allows you to set the AI to:
- Heavily Favor Overall Ratings
- Favor Overall Ratings
- Neutral
- Favor Potential Ratings
- Heavily Favor Potential Ratings

Or something like that. This would be similar to the "Trading Preferences"

Reason
This would provide the player the opportunity to determine how the AI approached the Inaugural Draft, whether to concentrate on established players or prospects, both, etc. It might go a long way to making the first few years of a fictional league more competitive.

Priority
Medium.
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Old 07-04-2007, 07:28 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Amateur Signing Period

Suggestion
Require amateur draftees to be signed by a given deadline or they will go back into the draft pool for next year. (I know this period used to be a full year, but I believe it just changed and will be shorter starting next year.)

Reason
Realism. Strategy.

Priority
LOW
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Old 07-04-2007, 08:40 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Have the ability to have one big draft pool, with undrafted players trickling down into other leagues. For example, if I have my MLB and ABL, all the guys that go undrafted i the MLB would then move to the ABL draft.

Reason
makes it more realistic. Obviously players' goal is to get drafted by the MLB, but if not they do look elsewhere to play.

Priority
medium.
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Old 07-04-2007, 08:41 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Have high school draftees have the option to go to college instead.

Reason
realism.


Priority
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Old 07-04-2007, 08:53 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Rankable rookie draft lists. After the rookie player pool is announced, allow teams to rank the players in the draft and submit their list. When it is time for the rookie draft, the AI will automatically select the highest ranked available player on each team's draft list. Teams/managers would also have the option to draft "manually" when draft day comes and be prompted when it is their pick just as it is now.

Reason
This would make rookie drafts much easier for online leagues in which it is often difficult to coordinate a live draft with all of the team owners. This seems like one of the most practical features still not in the game.

Priority
High
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Old 07-04-2007, 04:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Suggestion
More options for the expansion draft - such as the ability to pull players off the list after having one taken, limits on players taken per team, limiting the expansion pool to one subleague, and/or defining certain players to leave out of the pool (e.g. young minor leaguers with no ML experience, 10-5 guys, etc.)

Reason
Would add to realism for historical players; adds to options and thought involved for all players.

Priority
Medium
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Old 07-04-2007, 04:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Customizable draft pools by quality and/or quantity

Reason
A large percentage of high drafted players in real life are either shortstops, center fielders, or starting pitchers. I would like to model the pool to reflect this by adding to the number of players at those positions, making them better relative to other positions, or both.

Priority
High
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Old 07-07-2007, 10:25 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Stop the practice of having recently-drafted player contracts expire within a few months of the expansion draft.

Reason
Players don't actually leave their teams right after being drafted; allows teams to keep players they draft

Priority
High

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Old 07-07-2007, 10:29 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Suggestion
More expansion-draft related movement. Typically, the expansion draft triggered player movement to/from the drafting teams - the draft should cause non-drafting teams to assess their situations based on who they have lost and/or who may now be available.

Reason
It would reflect reality somewhat better than the expansion draft periods that I've seen.

Priority
Low
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Suggestion
Stop the practice of having recently-drafted player contracts expire within a few months of the expansion draft.

Reason
Players don't actually leave their teams right after being drafted; allows teams to keep players they draft

Priority
High

The issue here is that the game allows an expansion draft to be scheduled before free agents file, and impending free agents are included in the expansion draft pool. The game should either only permit expansion after the FA filing date, or, preferably, should offer the option to exclude FAs from the expansion draft pool (the option, because I can see why some expansion teams might want to draft upcoming FAs- they might then get a compensation draft pick).
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Old 07-07-2007, 12:59 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Allow a serpentine option and/or random option in the first year player draft order.

Reason
There is a button for Use This Order for All Remaining Rounds, but it seems redundant to me as, if not clicked, the same order remains regardless. It'd be nice to be able to modify the order at the beginning of any round playing to league rationales where parity is of high import.

Priority
Medium. Important to some, not others. I'll take the middle ground. I am skeptical about the original button's functionality, though.
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Old 07-09-2007, 03:00 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Allow picks to be passed and/or forfeited.

Reason
If an online league's member breaks a rule or something, the commissioner may decide the penalty is the forfeiture of a pick... I dunno why a pick would be passed voluntarily but that avenue should be locked up as well.

Priority
Medium Low
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Old 07-09-2007, 09:23 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Suggestion
Have the ability to import entire draft classes from a .csv file prior to the draft.

Reason
Would make it easier to take the current MLB draft class and turn it into your league's draft class. You can continue your replay/sim into the future using real players in an alternate timeline. One person or group could enter the draft class into a file, then redistribute so everyone could use it.

Priority
Fairly high.
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Old 07-13-2007, 09:15 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Put a "Draft This Player" option under the Action menu of a player's screen/profile

Reason
Speed, simplicity.

Priority
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Old 07-16-2007, 11:05 AM   #19 (permalink)
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The Rule 5 Draft like in real life
Reason
So only the people from the MLB portion get put on a MLB team and the rest in the Minors.
Priority
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Old 07-16-2007, 08:34 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Inaugural Draft

Suggestion

Players in the inaugural draft pool should be created with stats for professional seasons played prior to the start date of the game.


Reason

When you start a league with fictional players, the veterans have no stats for their careers and are therefore all but excluded from hall of fame consideration.


Priority

Seems like something that should be fairly straight forward to reverse engineer into the game. Currently you can work around by starting your league 20 years before you plan to start playing and sim-ing up to your start date but to have veteran's full career stats included from the outset would be preferable.
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