Possible to play ALL GAMES?

[Duvdar]

Is it possible to play all your games? Not just your major league team games but all the minor league games also with no simulated games? If so can someone tell me how to set it.

Thanks

[1998 Yankees]

You could make a human manager identity for each team and seize control of each team in the organization (must be the commissioner temporarily to do so). This would put you actually in charge of the teams, bringing benefits that don't occur with the alternative below. However, it would be pretty time-consuming, having to sign out of one ID and into another and switching between league levels, and each manager identity would have to be set correctly as far as team controls.

You could also take on commissioner powers which among other things would allow you to manage in any game you want, at any level. This would save time but being commissioner is not the same as being in charge of a team, as you would discover. For example, you don't get certain notifications as commissioner unless you actually are in charge of a team.

Either way, it would be very important to set Simulate World in Background to "No" in Game Options (just before you play out a game) because if that says "Yes" and you played one game that day, all the others would be playing in the background, I believe. The setting is sticky; set once, future games will retain the same option.

Edit: On second thought, the best option may be just to play in commissioner mode. That way, you can be the GM of your organization, playing out your MLB game then switching to each league level to play out your affiliate games. Just don't forget about that Simulate World in Background thing.

[RchW]

Possible but very very tough.

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by RchW

Possible but very very tough.

Yeah, it sounds like something you might do for a game "week" and then you say "the heck with this."

[Afino]

Doesn't Eugene Church do this with his Island league?

He may be the one to ask here.

[Tony M]

Originally Posted by Duvdar

Is it possible to play all your games? Not just your major league team games but all the minor league games also with no simulated games? If so can someone tell me how to set it.

Thanks

I think you have to start to play one game and on the options screen where you choose the game options (like AI, DH, Warmup, etc) choose to disable the BNN Network (so that other games don't play at the same time as you do), and

[Syd Thrift]

I play out every major league game in my league from the 7th inning on. It's very easy to do, just a matter of going into Commissioner Mode and then clicking on the View/Play Game button that shows up. You do have to specify what you want to control and what you don't (I generally let the computer control defensive and pitching choices whereas I control offensive choices and substitutions) before each and every game but that also gives you the opportunity to take a glance at every team. If you want to play out the minors as well (too much for me but go ahead) you just click on the drop down menu in the top right hand corner of the screen to switch between leagues.

As Eugene has stated, you will learn the players in your league far, far quicker if you do things this way. I suggest playing out until the 7th because most of the really big decisions are either made prior to the game or after the 6th anyway and this allows you to get through things about 3 times as fast as playing out every inning. This does mean you get less hands-on experience with the part of the game that has had by far the most work put into it (the development engine) and instead use an aspect that perhaps hasn't seen as much (the in-game engine) but it's still well worth playing, especially if you don't like seeing seasons go by at a breakneck pace.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by RchW

Possible but very very tough.

Ditto.

I tried that once many years ago. Don't do it. Seriously.

[Malleus Dei]

Duplicate. n/m

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by Duvdar

Is it possible to play all your games? Not just your major league team games but all the minor league games also with no simulated games? If so can someone tell me how to set it.

Thanks

Must be a young dude. If I tried to do that I wouldn't live long enough to complete the first season.

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

Must be a young dude. If I tried to do that I wouldn't live long enough to complete the first season.

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, eh?

[Carlton_Willey]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

Must be a young dude. If I tried to do that I wouldn't live long enough to complete the first season.

Lots of people do this with Strat-O-matic and APBA, which are dice games. Why would a computer game be harder?

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by Carlton_Willey

Lots of people do this with Strat-O-matic and APBA, which are dice games. Why would a computer game be harder?

Did those games ever have minor leagues? OP is talking about playing out every game in his organization, full season schedules on all levels. Say 162 on ML level + 144x4 on minor league level (or more if SSA is added) = 738 games to play just to finish one season.

I play out all my games, albeit with instant and abbreviated PbP, been playing this league for months now, and I'm still only in my 12th season. My answer would be the slowness with which "time" would pass and results, including interesting career statistics, would accumulate; that's why OP would abandon this ambitious project, I wager.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Carlton_Willey

Lots of people do this with Strat-O-matic and APBA, which are dice games.

Lots of people are obsessed.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Afino

Doesn't Eugene Church do this with his Island league?

He may be the one to ask here.

Yes, I play in the commissioner mode and control all 64 teams in my one league with no minors (minor league stats are lousy and not realistic). I do not use financials. I used to play from the 7th inning on, but now I play out each game from the 8th inning on so I can make 95% of the pitching changes and substitutions. Syd Thrift is right, it is safer to do it from the 6th inning on, but I have found that if I watch closely and play out an inning when the pitcher is coming to bat, I can avoid the AI using a pinchhitter. It works really well. I get totally immersed in my league this way. I play 1950s style baseball, so I don't want a lot of pitching changes and double switches. And I can use a closer when I want, not when the AI wants to use him. I never have a pitcher relieved in the ninth with a shutout or a big lead. I let them try to finish the game. I also go in and set most player to "never pinch hit for this player", so there will not be so many unnecessary substitutions.

And yes, it is very time-consuming. It will take me a year to play a league season. But it is well worth it. I keep individual and team records that the game doesn't keep. Categories like most runs, most hits, most doubles, most errors, most walks, most strikeouts, most double plays, longest games, etc.

And remember what 1998 Yankees warned:
Just don't forget about that Simulate World in Background thing.
When you go to play a game, it is on the screen where you select the way you want to control the game. Once you set it to say no to the out-of-town scoreboard, you do not have to set it again. If you find that the other games are being played by the AI, it is because you didn't change the setting.

And yes, I am 69 years young... and I may not have too many more seasons.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by The Wolf

Lots of people are obsessed.

Yes, I am completely obsessed.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, eh?

Yep.

[Boom Boom]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

I play out every major league game in my league from the 7th inning on. It's very easy to do, just a matter of going into Commissioner Mode and then clicking on the View/Play Game button that shows up. You do have to specify what you want to control and what you don't (I generally let the computer control defensive and pitching choices whereas I control offensive choices and substitutions) before each and every game but that also gives you the opportunity to take a glance at every team.

Thanks for the tip, I never knew that

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

And yes, I am 69 years young... and I may not have too many more seasons.

You put it that way, it makes me want to play even more often than I am now. So many leagues, so many seasons, so little time!

[Curtis]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

I play 1950s style baseball, so I don't want a lot of pitching changes and double switches. And I can use a closer when I want, not when the AI wants to use him. I never have a pitcher relieved in the ninth with a shutout or a big lead. I let them try to finish the game.

I play 1960s style, and I have a rule that if a pitcher is working on a six hitter or better he doesn't come out… unless he asks to during a trip to the mound, or I need a pinch hitter in a 'tie or win the game' situation.