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07-03-2007, 09:34 PM
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OOTP Developments
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Suggestions: Drafts
This suggestion thread is designed to collect suggestions for the next version of OOTP, on the following topic:
Drafts Includes - 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!
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: Suggestion Reason Priority Thanks for participating! Steve |
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07-03-2007, 09:39 PM
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OOTP Developments
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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  ></o><TABLE class=MsoTableGrid style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; WIDTH: 437.4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 191; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: .5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev: .5pt solid windowtext" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=583 border=1><TBODY><TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; BACKGROUND: silver; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 59.4pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=79> Round<o ></o>Pick #*<o ></o>Overall #*<o ></o>Notes<o ></o>1 8 8 ></o></TD></TR><TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 2"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: #d4d0c8; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 59.4pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=79> 2 8 24 ></o></TD></TR><TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 3"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: #d4d0c8; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 59.4pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=79> 2 16 32 </TD></TR><TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 4"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: #d4d0c8; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 59.4pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=79> 3 8 40 ></o></TD></TR><TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 5"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: #d4d0c8; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 59.4pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=79> 4 8 56 ></o></TD></TR><TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 6; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes"><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: #d4d0c8; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 59.4pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" vAlign=top width=79> 5 8 72 ></o></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <o ></o>Note: This report shows the projected pick number based on the current standings.<o ></o>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 Last edited by battists; 07-03-2007 at 09:40 PM. |
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07-03-2007, 10:24 PM
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Hall Of Famer
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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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07-03-2007, 10:35 PM
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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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07-03-2007, 11:33 PM
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Minors (Triple A)
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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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07-04-2007, 08:28 AM
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Amateur Signing Period
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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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07-04-2007, 09:40 AM
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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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07-04-2007, 09:53 AM
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All Star Starter
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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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07-04-2007, 05:23 PM
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Minors (Triple A)
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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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07-04-2007, 05:29 PM
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Minors (Triple A)
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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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07-07-2007, 11:25 AM
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Minors (Double A)
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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 Last edited by kroney37; 07-07-2007 at 11:30 AM. |
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07-07-2007, 11:29 AM
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Minors (Double A)
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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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07-07-2007, 12:07 PM
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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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07-07-2007, 01:59 PM
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Hall Of Famer
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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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07-09-2007, 04:00 AM
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Minors (Single A)
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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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07-09-2007, 10:23 AM
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All Star Starter
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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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07-13-2007, 10:15 AM
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Put a "Draft This Player" option under the Action menu of a player's screen/profile Reason Speed, simplicity. Priority Low
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07-16-2007, 12:05 PM
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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 High
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07-16-2007, 09:34 PM
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Bat Boy
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Inaugural Draft
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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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