OOTP10 Suggestions: HTML Reports

[battists]

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

HTML Reports

Includes
- Suggestions related to the HTML reports in the game, including suggestions for additional reports or changes to existing reports

Excludes
- There will be overlap with the online thread here, but don't worry about it.

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:

Suggestion


Reason


Priority


Thanks for participating!

Steve

[Kelric]

Suggestion
The current franchise encyclopedia page Starters: Pitchers lists pitchers in a way that should be changed. It currently shows the top pitchers for each season every year without linking the same pitchers together. I may not be describing it well, but I think it should look like Baseball-Reference.com's pages where successive seasons are linked together.

Reason
Provides a more intuitive way to see who has pitched over the years for your ball club. Is a cleaner look, in my opinion. The positional player page is similar to BR, why not the pitchers?

Priority
Medium

[Kelric]

Suggestion
Both the Starters: Positional and Pitchers should show the Most Common and Most Games at each position as B-R.com does.

Reason
A nice flavor stat to see what guys have been with the team and played the most at specific positions.

Priority
Medium.

[Kelric]

Suggestion
Give us back the old Player Development Report. At least make it an option.

Reason
The new one sucks. I don't care if development happens slower and differently now, I still want to be able to see every change the instance it happens to my players if I so desire.

Priority
High

[Syd Thrift]

Suggestion: The Leaderboards section ought to have the following:

- Progressive leaders (i.e. when a guy hits 26 homeruns for my league and that's the record, I want to see how long it stood until someone broke it)
- Best/worst team marks (most runs scored by a team in the history of the league, fewest strikeouts, etc.)

Reason: This stuff was in the old Catobase and, well, I miss it.

Priority: Medium. Catobase came out what? Five years ago? At some point the actual game ought to have the same features as an old, non-supported user mod.

[dickysty]

Suggestion

I would like to see an additional Report for Top Game Performances.

The new report would be based on the history of the league.

So instead of just Top Game performances for the current season that your simming it would go all the way back to the conception of the league.

It Could be called, All Time Top Game Performances


Reason

Just a nice report to have.




Priority

Low

[fhomess]

Suggestion
Show the postseason bracket/standings in the HTML report.

Reason
There's nowhere in the HTML that you can tell what the postseason standings are mid-sim. This is a major detriment to online leagues.

Priority
Super high.

[fhomess]

Suggestion
Provide an entire organization HTML ratings report.

Reason
In OOTP6.5, the ratings report contained a list of all players in your organization. There's no HTML report of this possible in OOTP9. You can get this in the game, but for online leagues, having it in the HTML would be very useful to GM's trying to evaluate their rosters when away from the game.

Priority
High

[Bobbuttons]

Suggestion: On the Free Agent HTML (especially important for online leagues when you can't get to the game right away), instead of only having the players listed with their ratings, have the option to see their current season or previous season's stats.


Reason: Because I want to be difficult.


Priority: High

[pstrickert]

Suggestion: Include league and team single-game records.

Reason: Typical "recordbooks" include this type of information. Its absence is noticeable in OOTP.

Priority: Medium.


Go here for an example of the records available in Action PC Baseball: http://home.paonline.com/crimedog/ct...59/RECORDS.htm

How come an inferior game has it, but not OOTP?

[f.montoya]

Suggestion: Black ink Gray ink Tests, HOF Career Standards test, HOF Monitor (In know it looks like 3 suggestions but they are really too related to each other to separate.) Brought up in this thread: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ml#post2605091

Reason: Just a great tool to look at and follow players while their careers unfold in the game. It's also another step in giving the user more parts of baseball-reference.com. It also should'nt be that hard to add since the game tracks all of the data anyway and the formulas are straightforward.

Priority: low/medium



More info:

Black-Ink Test

All-Time and Active Leaders
Named so because league leading numbers are traditionally represented with Boldface type. The definition for the test that I'm using here was written up in Bill James's The Politics of Glory, p. 65-67. The essential point is to measure how often a player led the league in a variety of "important" stats. This method penalizes more recent players as they have 14-16 teams per league, while the older players had just 8. To get a point you must lead the league in that category.

• Batting Statistics
• Four Points for home runs, runs batted in or batting average
• Three Points for runs scored, hits or slugging percentage
• Two Points for doubles, walks or stolen bases
• One Point for games, at bats or triples

• Pitching Statistics
• Four Points for wins, earned run average or strikeouts
• Three Points for innings pitched, win-loss percentage or saves
• Two Points for complete games, lowest walks per 9 innings or lowest hits per 9 innings
• One Point for appearances, starts or shutouts

Note that Hall of Famers have a wide variety of values for the Black Ink Test, and the method is unforgiving of positional differences, but it is a neat little metric.
Gray-Ink Test

All-Time and Active Leaders
Essentially the same as the Black-Ink above, but it counts appearances in the top ten of the league. For each appearance the values are below. As with the Black Ink, this method penalizes more recent players as they have 14-16 teams per league, while the older players had just 8. To get a point you must be in the top 10 in the league in that category.

• Batting Statistics
• Four Points for home runs, runs batted in or batting average
• Three Points for runs scored, hits or slugging percentage
• Two Points for doubles, walks or stolen bases
• One Point for games, at bats or triples

• Pitching Statistics
• Four Points for wins, earned run average or strikeouts
• Three Points for innings pitched, win-loss percentage or saves
• Two Points for complete games, lowest walks per 9 innings or lowest hits per 9 innings
• One Point for appearances, starts or shutouts

Hall of Fame Career Standards Test

All-Time and Active Leaders
This test gives a score of 50 for an average Hall of Famer, with 100 as the max (note Babe Ruth is over 100 due to my simplistic addition of his pitching and batting values), though mine are lower due to some difference in positional adjustments that I'll explain below. It is used to measure the overall quality of a player's career as opposed to singular brilliance (peak value).
Also, I require a minimum of 20 points in this metric before the value is displayed for a player. Anything below that is meaningless.
This can be found in James's book on p. 174-176. All values are for career marks, and I've required 1000 at bats or 500 IP for the rate stats to kick in.

• Batting Statistics
• One point for each 150 hits above 1500, limit 10.
• One point for each .005 of batting average above .275, limit 9
• One point for batting over .300
• One point for each 100 runs over 900, limit 8.
• One point for scoring more than .500 runs per game.
• One point for scoring more than .644 runs per game.
• One point for each 100 rbi's over 800, limit 8.
• One point for driving in more than .500 runs per game.
• One point for driving in more than .600 runs per game.
• One point for each .025 of slugging percentage above .300, limit 10
• One point for each .010 of on-base percentage above .300, limit 10
• One point for each 200 home runs.
• One point if home runs are more than 10% of hits.
• One point if home runs are more than 20% of hits.
• One point for each 200 extra base hits over 300, limit 5.
• One point for each 200 walks over 300, limit 5.
• One point for each 100 stolen bases, limit 5.
• James's version: Defensive value: 20 points for catcher, 16 - shortstop, 14 - second base, 13 - third base, 12 - center fielder, 6 - right fielder, 3 - left fielder, 1 - first baseman, 0 - designated hitter
• My version: Defensive value: same as that computed for similarity scores. On a 0-20 range.

• Pitching Statistics
• One point for each 10 wins over 100, limit 25.
• One point for each 20 games over .500, limit 10.
• For each of the following a minimum of 500 innings is required before these points are added.
  • One point for each .013 of winning percentage above .500, limit 15.
  • One point for each .20 of ERA below 4.00, limit 10.
  • One point for each 200 strikeouts over 1000, limit 10.
  • One point for each .30 of BB/9IP below 4.00, limit 10.
  • One point for each .30 of H/9IP below 10.00, limit 10.
• One point for each 1000 innings above 1000, limit 5.
• One point for each 100 complete games above 200, limit 5. Changed from James's slightly
• One point for each 30 shutouts, limit 5. Changed from James's slightly

Note that this system excludes relievers as there are no set standards for them.
Hall of Fame Monitor

All-Time and Active Leaders
This is another Jamesian creation. It attempts to assess how likely (not how deserving) an active player is to make the Hall of Fame. It's rough scale is 100 means a good possibility and 130 is a virtual cinch. It isn't hard and fast, but it does a pretty good job. Here are the batting rules.
Also, I require a minimum of 30 points in this metric before the value is displayed for a player.

• For Batting Average, 2.5 points for each season over .300, 5.0 for over .350, 15 for over .400. Seasons are not double-counted. I require 100 games in a season to qualify for this bonus.
• For hits, 5 points for each season of 200 or more hits.
• 3 points for each season of 100 RBI's and 3 points for each season of 100 runs.
• 10 points for 50 home runs, 4 points for 40 HR, and 2 points for 30 HR.
• 2 points for 45 doubles and 1 point for 35 doubles.
• 8 points for each MVP award and 3 for each AllStar Game, and 1 point for a Rookie of the Year award.
• 2 points for a gold glove at C, SS, or 2B, and 1 point for any other gold glove.
• 6 points if they were the regular SS or C on a WS team, 5 points for 2B or CF, 3 for 3B, 2 for LF or RF, and 1 for 1B. I don't have the OF distribution, so I give 3 points for OF.
• 5 points if they were the regular SS or C on a League Championship (but not WS) team, 3 points for 2B or CF, 1 for 3B. I don't have the OF distribution, so I give 1 points for OF.
• 2 points if they were the regular SS or C on a Division Championship team (but not WS or LCS), 1 points for 2B, CF, or 3B. I don't have the OF distribution, so I give 1 points for OF.
• 6 points for leading the league in BA, 4 for HR or RBI, 3 for runs scored, 2 for hits or SB, and 1 for doubles and triples.
• 50 points for 3,500 career hits, 40 for 3,000, 15 for 2,500, and 4 for 2,000.
• 30 points for 600 career home runs, 20 for 500, 10 for 400, and 3 for 300.
• 24 points for a lifetime BA over .330, 16 if over .315, and 8 if over .300.
• For tough defensive positions, 60 for 1800 games as a catcher, 45 for 1,600 games, 30 for 1,400, and 15 for 1,200 games caught.
• 30 points for 2100 games at 2B or SS, or 15 for 1,800 games.
• 15 points for 2,000 games at 3B.
• An additional 15 points in the player has more than 2,500 games played at 2B, SS, or 3B.
• Award 15 points if the player's batting average is over .275 and they have 1,500 or more games as a 2B, SS or C.

Pitching Rules

• 15 points for each season of 30 or more wins, 10 for 25 wins, 8 for 23 wins, 6 for 20 wins, 4 for 18 wins, and 2 for 15 wins.
• 6 points for 300 strikeouts, 3 points for 250 SO, or 2 points for 200 or more strikeouts.
• 2 points for each season with 14 or more wins and a .700 winning percentage.
• 4 points for a sub-2.00 ERA, 1 point if under 3.00.
• 7 points for 40 or more saves, 4 points for 30 or more, and 1 point for 20 or more.
• 8 points for each MVP award, 5 for a Cy Young award, 3 for each AllStar Game, and 1 point for a Rookie of the Year award.
• 1 point for a gold glove.
• 1 point for each no-hitter. This is not currently included.
• 2 points for leading the league in ERA, 1 for leading in games, wins, innings, W-L%, SO, SV or SHO. Half point for leading in CG.
• 35 points for 300 or more wins, 25 for 275, 20 for 250, 15 for 225, 10 for 200, 8 for 174 and 5 for 150 wins.
• 8 points for a career W-L% over .625, 5 points for over .600, 3 points for over .575, and 1 point for over .525, min. 190 decisions.
• 10 points for a career ERA under 3.00, min 190 decisions.
• 20 points for 300 career saves and 10 points for 200 career saves.
• 30 points for 1000 career games, 20 for 850 games and 10 for 700 games.
• 20 points for more than 4,000 strikeouts, and 10 for 3,000 SO.
• 2 points for each WS start, 1 point for each relief appearance, and 2 for a win.
• 1 point for each LCS or LDS win.

[fhomess]

Suggestion
Provide a report that shows players on a team's reserve roster. This report should include ratings.

Reason
There's nowhere to see what players are on your reserve roster in the HTML reports, and for online leagues, this is completely unacceptable. Online league GM's do a LOT through the HTML, and there's really no good reason this isn't visible anywhere.

Priority
High

[SunDevil]

Inside the Numbers: Ranking the 30 Clubs by Marginal Payroll/Marginal Wins

Please click on the image to see the report format.

[Corsairs]

Suggestion
Add a pull-down menu to each HTML report allowing you to select that report for any other team in the league being viewed. For instance, if I'm viewing the roster page for the Tampa Bay Rays, I would like to see a pull-down menu on the page where I can select to see the roster page for all the other 29 MLB teams.

Reason
Added convenience. It saves a few mouse clicks when you're trying to quickly view similar reports between different teams.

Priority
Low

[szathkey]

Suggestion
In the Fielding leaders/Player Profile screen add a generic OF category.

Reason
It would allow fielders that split time between outfield positions to be elligible for awards based on their total time in the outfield. If it was changed in the Player Profile ratings it would also also keep someone that moved from CF to LF from making a ton of extra errors. I realize that there are different things to learn about each position, but the two aren't so different that moving would suddenly cause a star CF to become an error machine.

Priority
Low (can just modify players now, but it doesn't keep AI competitive if it decides to move someone)

[drowtfs]

Suggestion
Log HTML Playoff report in Almanac. A full individual report about the playoffs, similar to the one we already have for the season, but only for the playoffs.

Reason
I can never have a good source of playoff analysis after the playoffs are done. It seems like the only place where you can the actual playoff brackets is during simulation. I can only have a good source of playoff info either looking at box scores or players' pages. If I want to know how my minor league clubs finished in their playoffs, the only way I know how to do it is looking back into their schedules.

Priority
High

[DesertFox07]

Suggestion
Allow Transactions to be filtered by transaction type such as:

• Signings
• Releases
• Trades
• Promotions/Demotions
• Staff Signings/Firings

Reason
The current level of transaction sorting is pretty high level. While major transactions does filter things down to roster moves and such, it still requires some fishing through tons of minor league rosters moves to dig out trades and signings and such. it would be great to be able to see specific types of transactions either on the screen in a list or in the HTML Reports.

Priority
Medium

[DesertFox07]

Suggestion
Change the League homepage during the post season to include a special "post season" graphic, current playoff match-ups and bracket as well as playoff specific news. Also update the standings page to inlcude the same playoff breacket as seen in the games standings screen.

Reason
All major sports sites have separate post-season experiences. Would be cool to have some kind of similar change happen in OOTP to let you know this is the playoffs.

Priority
Low

[DesertFox07]

Suggestion
Add a new playoff summary page. This page would include a section on the World Series (Final playoff for each league regardless of name), and each other round (if applicable) In addition to just the series result (which is all that is reported on the league summary pages right now) It would show each games summary box score (as current seen on the HTML scores and schedule page), top three players of the series, and the latest news story.

Reason
Right now, other than digging into all the individual areas, there's no way to see a complete snapshot of the playoffs for the season. This is an area that needs some attention.

Priority
Medium

[udbacker58]

Suggestion
Add a note in a player's history when he sets a record, either single season or career. e.g. Sets a [single season/career] [league] record for [stat] with [amout]

Reason
We have a note for when a player has a good day, why no note when he sets league records? A player may have been great during his time, but has since been passed over for whatever reason, it would be nice to open up his player card and see that he once dominated and held records.

Priority
Low