NOTE: I FORGOT TO ALLOW CPU CHANGES! PLEASE GO TO LEAGUE SETUP, AND THEN CLICK ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEAGUES, HIT FUNCTIONS, AND THEN "SET ALL COMPUTER-CONTROLLED TEAMS TO ALLOW AI ROSTER CHANGES!" IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS, PLAYERS WILL VANISH!
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What I've done is combined the 2008 MLB players (everyone with stats from 08) along with the minor leagues from our 2007 set. Some of the players in the minors might have switched squads, I'll be trying to fix that in a later release. All of the free agents are accurate, contracts are accurate, and player movement among the MLB rosters are accurate as well. I've also made movements with any minor league players which were dealt in trades (ie. Gorkys Hernandez, Jurrjiens, etc.)
What IS done in this set:
- Everyone from 2007 is in there with stats, everyone with stats in a MLB game on the 40-man roster is in there as well.
- Imported the minor leagues from the 2007 CF/HB set.
- Proper pitch speeds/pitches thrown for all MLB pitchers.
- Salaries are all correct.
- Updated player pictures for moved players in the 2007 season (guys like Kendall, Barrett, etc.) or call ups in their MLB photos (guys like Justin Upton, Adam Jones, etc.) are all included with the set, along with the usual logos.
- Player numbers are correct!
This is a first that I've done this, so number guys out there rejoice. :P
- Added incoming Japanese free agents (Fukuodome, Saito, etc.)
Things to do still:
- More detailed stadium information.
- Coaches.
- Tweak player ratings.
- Minor league player movement from 2007 to 2008.
- I didn't import history in this set, that might be down the line.
- Could use some help on uni's (Icy where are you!
).
Here's some problems I've noticed that I need the community's help with:
-- I tried to catch all potential duplicate players, but there are still some left I'm sure, since some of them played in 2007 and were created with the major league set, and some were in the minor leagues that were imported and I didn't catch them. Again, I went through and tried to delete all the ones I saw, but I'm sure there's some I didn't catch. Bohn actually may be one of them.
-- Ratings weren't heavily tweaked, I mainly based them off 2007 performances, with a few exceptions (Andruw Jones, Vernon Wells type players). We'll go back and do these later.
-- There's still some of the minor leaguers that have birthdates off by a year. Not much we can do here, oh well I suppose.
-- I actually increased the average salaries to make it a little more "MLB realistic" with A-Rod asking for 25M, Bonds around 20M, Silva around 9, etc. etc. Most of these are making the demands very accurate, but there's a few outliers like Mike Lowell for 19.5M, or Andruw for 20M. Not sure if there's much to be done about this.
Those are the only gamebreakers (if you can call them that) that I'm seeing so far.
Please remember, this is a VERY rough set in terms of ratings and proper placement of players (probably the roughest to date) but it is VERY more functional than the previous ones because it's started from scratch basically. I'm hoping that in the next few weeks we can put a very polished set out there for you guys to have until next April rolls around.