[kq76]

This post has a theme, it's all about personnel hiring:

Improve Personnel Response Notifications - A user can follow the Personnel > Pending Offers screen, but if a person disappears from the list it doesn't tell you whether they signed with you or elsewhere. Then you have to go to the team in your organization to see if they signed with you or not. You should get either a message on that screen or a popup telling you what happened regardless of whether they signed with you or not.

Add Link to Personnel > Pending Offers Screen - From your team's Personnel screen there should be links to the PO screen. Otherwise, a user might have no clue it even exists, like I didn't for awhile.

Add Organization Column to Personnel Views - I'd like to be able to see/filter whether a person is in my organization, be it be in the majors or minors, via the Staff Search screen.

Auto-Select from Drop-Down the Team You Made an Offer For - When you're trying to hire personnel and they say they want more money and you go to make them a better offer, the drop-down doesn't always default to the team you previously offered them to work for and you have to frustratingly re-select it time and time again. The drop-down should remember the team. I'm not sure I've ever hired a person for a job I didn't mean to hire them for, but I imagine I probably have. If someone did, and realized they did, I'm sure they'd be pretty angry about it.

Streamline Personnel Hiring - I'm not sure how this should be done, but I find it frustrating that the personnel screens are separated between all your teams (major and minor), your Staff Roles screens, and the Personnel > Pending Offers screen. Maybe simply including all your organization's teams' pending offers on your major league team's Current Offers section of the Staff Roles screen would help.

Show What Ratings Are Most Important / Highlight Important Columns - I had to read a lot about personnel, make a lot of notes, and make a multi-tabbed spreadsheet importing several OOTP reports that turns words into values and ranks them all to make personnel hiring decisions easier. This part of the game is pretty tedious, but as far as I can tell it's really important to hire the best personnel you can. I shouldn't be made to feel that all I've done is necessary. It's nice that your GM makes recommendations, but they should say why they recommend that person. Obviously a good "Teach Hitting" rating is critical for a Hitting Coach, but what else is? Answer: Dev+Mech? Anything else? I don't know. What about Field Manager, Bench Coach, Base Coaches, etc? I think I know, but even with all my research I'm still not sure. Simply highlighting the important columns on the Free Agent Personnel and Staff Search screens would help.

Prefix Text Data with Numbers - The colours help, but it's not immediately clear which data are better than others (Decent is apparently better than Average, who knew?). For example, instead of just displaying "Legendary", show "9 - Legendary"; instead of "Decent", show "5 - Decent", etc. Also, give the option to choose just numbers instead of text for the columns for those who might have a lot of columns and not enough room for the text.

Improve Free Agent Personnel Screen Views - I don't think enough thought was put into many of the Free Agent Personnel screen views. Here are the columns I added to all of them (some views included some): Age (I don't want to be ageist, but as a tiebreaker you might prefer a younger guy in the hopes they won't retire as soon), Experience (of course all else equal, the more experience the better), Years (left on current contract, to see if they're available or how long your guys have left), and Reputation (of course you should drill down into the others, but for those who don't want to do that, hiring just based off of Reputation should be the tantalizing easy way out). Get rid of Nationality for those that include it (if you want, maybe factor language into team cohesion, but nationality should not matter). Added to Coaches: Personality, Positive, Negative, Style (remember "Coaches includes all coaches, including Bench Coach"), Hitting Focus, Pitching Focus. Separate the Coaches view into different views for the different types of coaches (1 for, BC, 1 for PC, etc) and only include the columns that are important for their jobs on their views. I think "Value Ratings" is supposed to be for the Field Manager. Make it simple for the user, rename it "Manager Ratings", and add to it: Personality, Positive, Negative, Style, and Relationships. If Hitting/Pitching Focus matter at all for the manager, add them too. If the "Favours" and the ratings vs stats columns aren't that important for the Manager, cut them (I include them only because I'm not sure). I think, but again I'm not sure, that the "Favours" and the ratings vs stats columns are all important for the GM so I include them in that view too.

Merge Staff Search Views and Free Agent Personnel Views - I created all my personnel views on the Staff Search screen before I was familiar with the Free Agent Personnel screen and now that I want to use the latter I have to re-make them all. They're effectively the exact same screen, why not make the views work on both.

Add Pre-Existing "Unemployed & Not Retired" Filter - Again, make things easier for the user. I think this is a pretty obvious filter most people would probably like to use so why not add it there so they don't have to.

"Job Open To" Instead of "Preferred Occupation" - I often find that personnel who aren't looking for a Bench Coach job are often willing to take one and they're often better than those who are looking for that job. Let's not limit that filter to just people who would "prefer" that job.

Have Personnel Say Why They're Not Interested - If you don't want the job I'm offering that's okay, but can you say why? Do you just not want to be a bench coach, you want to hold out for a manager position? Do you just not want to coach in the minors, you want a job in the bigs? Do you have something against our organization? If it's that, is it our record, is it our morale / cohesion? I'm not offended. I'd just like to know if I should consider you for something else or if I should look elsewhere.