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Originally Posted by JMDurron
Seems realistic to me, some teams are just run by idiot owners across various pro sports.
The larger question becomes this - is there any real value to the OOTP gamer in having this particular kind of realism? Petty, stupid, ignorant owners are as old as professional sports, but we already see pushback on "it makes the game harder by asking you to do dumb things and penalizing you if you don't." Well, what do we think happens to GMs/Managers in real life who ignore what their idiot owner tells them to do, unless they win a ton of games?
It would be like having full information on why a reliever who normally would be rested not being available one day. In a real world environment, he might be hungover, he might be dealing with an STD, or he might just have the flu, but does the OOTP user really need to see more than the %rested data to know what really matters on the field - that pitcher's potential availability and presumed effectiveness that day?
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it's realistic to have a 3 hour-flight but we don't simulate that either...
that's not the metric we should use for a video game all the time. it's supposed to be entertaining, not a chore. some people liek the owner, some dont - that's exactly how it should be. i turn it off completely. i alreay dislike entitled billionaires. have you ever met one? they are mostly terrible people, lol.
your last paragraph is covered though... the basis for their ratings is their historical perfomance in real life... those bad days caused by drinking and parting too much on road trips is already in the numbers. same can be though of for fictional players... i mean that more in reference to how they get to their resutls... if it's part of the engine somewhere, then it needs to be removed before implemented a 2nd time.
if it were a separate force, i think that would be cool, though. definitely somethign to model... mlb players are perpetual teen-agers when it comes to maturity, lol. it's most likely a real influence in real life, but how to quantify it is tough.