[jbaxter]

SCOUTING:
-- Increase the importance of the Head Scout and the Advance Scout.
-- Have scouts abilities change up and down over time as they gain experience or fail to find talent.
-- This would require a major revamp, but it would be amazing to be able to look back on past scouting reports on each player to see which scouts have seen a player and how they rated him.
-- Many scouts are drawn from former players. If there were a way to develop a retiring player into a useful scout (or coach), it would make it a lot more interesting to be perusing other players' teams.

COACHING:
-- This seems a frustratingly static part of the game. A good organization develops coaches, who then get poached by other teams. The same with GMs, who tend to be drawn from scouting ranks. Having coaches and scouts improve the way that players do would add a fun element to running a team.

TRADING
-- Having random calls (emails) from other teams suggesting trades would be a welcome interruption. It's not the same as putting someone on the trade block.

END OF YEAR PLAYER REPORTS:
Having the coach and head scout prepare a year-end report card for each player would be interesting. Include where they started the year and how much growth they've had in each of the player categories. Who are the emerging leaders? Who is struggling to fit in? It can be as detailed or simple as you want, but it would add an element to the June year-end that would make the off season potentially much more interesting.

LAYOUT
-- This is a tiny thing, but annoying. Having the "Injury List" and minor league teams next to one another can easily cause someone to put a player on waivers when they mean to send him to the IR. The pop up boxes look too similar that if you're not paying close attention, it's really easy to lose a player. Separating them and/or adding a bright red WAIVER WARNING to the pop up window would be helpful.

AUTO RENEWAL
-- Please make this an option. Every few years, I get auto-renewed at the same salary I've been making since Day 1. I would like the option to have my boss big for my services and, if we don't reach an agreement, to then test my own free agency.

RANDOM NAMES:
-- At the startup menu, allow players to enter the names of friends and family, famous people and the like. It will help customize the game for everybody and avoid repetition, which I will note has got a lot better in more recent iterations of the game. And it's kind of fun when you see your best friend's kid pop up in the draft.