List of suggestions

[Bobble]

This is (mostly) from a previous thread but I thought they should be moved here so it has a better chance of being seen.

Some suggestions I put together in no particular order:

1. On the Personnel screen when you're showing the entire organizaion, please show the coach's ratings. I know you can switch to showing just your team's personnel and then use the dropdown to page through your organization but I'd like to see the ratings at a glance.

2. On the Player Profile screen, I'd love to be able to edit what stats are shown like you can elsewhere. Personally, I don't want ERA+, I want FIP.

3. On the rosters and Transactions screen, I'd like to be able to toggle between actual and potential. I play with a potentials on 1-5 scale and no actuals and there's a whole lotta blanks shown. I could also see this being useful to those who want to give preferential moves to certain prospects.

4. Gameplay Modes - All of the settings can be overwhelming. How about a wizard for game and league settings that flips all the appropriate switches for common styles of play. Modes like: stats only low-fi (1-5 scale), stats only hi-fi (1-100 scale), Ironman (trading very hard, favor prospects, etc.), and so on. Something to simplify the scary array of settings for the newb as well as maybe a common frame of reference for the vets.

5. I don't know if this is what's planned but I think on the 3D field, you need to see the ball thrown to the base for any outs. You ought to be able to look at only the 3D representation and have a pretty good idea of how the play turned out.

6. Currently, when you submit an offer to personnel and they want more money, you don't hear back. I think this is a bug that's being worked on but in case that's WAD, I'd like to hear if my offer is no longer being considered.

7. Please make the salary column of the format "$500K" instead of "$500,000" (obviously for any salaries high enough). The latter is too long and gets truncated on most screens I use.

8. I'd love to be able to adjust the width of any of the columns on any of view but I understand that my be difficult if that's not already a part of the graphics package.

9. Please make the Waiver Wire one of the drop-down selections on the manager's home screen. I think some of us waiver poachers would like to have easy access to that info.

10. Please color code the groundball verbiage. It would make it a lot easier to decypher "GB T" versus "EX FB". I don't know if you want to use the current blue=good/red=bad color scale or not. I'm not sure there's a consensus on whether a EX GB pitcher is better than a EX FB guy.

11. I'd like to see a trading difficulty setting between Normal and Hard ("Challenging"?). Normal seems too easy to me and Hard seems too hard. Probably out to do the same on the other side of the scale; a setting between Normal and Easy.

12. Please add "On shortlist" to the list of categories that you can filter on.

13. It was revealed to me that you can dig down to the compare screen and see a PECOTA-like comparitor player to the guy you're looking at. I'd like to see this brought up to one of the player profile screens (a new tab or wedged into one of the current ones).

14. I've been finding the feature where you can rate the players versus any league you want to be very cool. Currently, though, you have to go into a player to set that setting and then when you come back out, every player is rated that way. I'd like to have that dropdown available pretty much anywhere you have the scout dropdown. I was using the feature during the draft and it would be nice to toggle that while I'm looking at the draft pool rather than go into a player, set it, and come back out.

15. I'd also like to see the term "never" in the lineup dropdowns be changed to "emergency". Never doesn't mean that the guy never starts no matter what. He does start in an emergency if the guys listed before him can't. Heck, that's why he's listed there. Plus, it makes a good parallel with the term "emergency starter" that's used for pitchers. Trivial? Yes, but it seems like an easy change to prevent potential misunderstanding.

16. How about a "go to..." search box for league and game settings? Say I can't find the where in all the settings trade frequency is. I type "trade frequency" in the box and it jumps to or highlights the appropriate setting.


Comments welcomed.

[frangipard]

Originally Posted by Bobble

1. On the Personnel screen when you're showing the entire organizaion, please show the coach's ratings. I know you can switch to showing just your team's personnel and then use the dropdown to page through your organization but I'd like to see the ratings at a glance.

2. On the Player Profile screen, I'd love to be able to edit what stats are shown like you can elsewhere. Personally, I don't want ERA+, I want FIP.

3. On the rosters and Transactions screen, I'd like to be able to toggle between actual and potential. I play with a potentials on 1-5 scale and no actuals and there's a whole lotta blanks shown. I could also see this being useful to those who want to give preferential moves to certain prospects.
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7. Please make the salary column of the format "$500K" instead of "$500,000" (obviously for any salaries high enough). The latter is too long and gets truncated on most screens I use.

8. I'd love to be able to adjust the width of any of the columns on any of view but I understand that my be difficult if that's not already a part of the graphics package.

9. Please make the Waiver Wire one of the drop-down selections on the manager's home screen. I think some of us waiver poachers would like to have easy access to that info.
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11. I'd like to see a trading difficulty setting between Normal and Hard ("Challenging"?). Normal seems too easy to me and Hard seems too hard. Probably out to do the same on the other side of the scale; a setting between Normal and Easy.

12. Please add "On shortlist" to the list of categories that you can filter on.

Like all of these.

6. Currently, when you submit an offer to personnel and they want more money, you don't hear back. I think this is a bug that's being worked on but in case that's WAD, I'd like to hear if my offer is no longer being considered.

What I'd really like is an automatic negotiation option for all contracts. Where this is really, really annoying to is with international amatuer free agents, where you have to keep dealing with a "____ offered me more money" every day for a month. It would be nice if we could just set the computer to "match all offers up to $___," and then just let it do the haggling for you.

15. I'd also like to see the term "never" in the lineup dropdowns be changed to "emergency". Never doesn't mean that the guy never starts no matter what. He does start in an emergency if the guys listed before him can't. Heck, that's why he's listed there. Plus, it makes a good parallel with the term "emergency starter" that's used for pitchers. Trivial? Yes, but it seems like an easy change to prevent potential misunderstanding.

Yes, this is a problem, but I think there's a better fix: the AI needs to get better about creating optimal lineups.

It's terrible at position shifting; i.e. when the CF can't play due to injury, it will insert the highest-rated CF on the bench into his spot, even if the substitute is a terrible defender. In reality, the coach would move his LF or RF to center, and insert the bad defender in that spot. I've seen the AI put a catcher in at shortstop instead of moving the gold-glove converted-SS who was playing 3B over one spot, and inserting a bench player at 3B.

IMO, better AI lineup/positional logic would automatically create better "emergency" choices for all teams.

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[mgom27]

Claimed of Waviers involve a Trade.

Rule 5 Trades?

Career Stats on Rotation and Lineup pages?
in the News saying like Barry Bonds has replaced Robinson Cano on the All-Star team?

[RchW]

Originally Posted by mgom27

Claimed of Waviers involve a Trade.

Rule 5 Trades?

Career Stats on Rotation and Lineup pages?
in the News saying like Barry Bonds has replaced Robinson Cano on the All-Star team?

You can trade Rule 5 picks.

[blasek0]

Originally Posted by frangipard

What I'd really like is an automatic negotiation option for all contracts. Where this is really, really annoying to is with international amatuer free agents, where you have to keep dealing with a "____ offered me more money" every day for a month. It would be nice if we could just set the computer to "match all offers up to $___," and then just let it do the haggling for you.

I love this idea. So, so much.

Originally Posted by frangipard

Yes, this is a problem, but I think there's a better fix: the AI needs to get better about creating optimal lineups.

It's terrible at position shifting; i.e. when the CF can't play due to injury, it will insert the highest-rated CF on the bench into his spot, even if the substitute is a terrible defender. In reality, the coach would move his LF or RF to center, and insert the bad defender in that spot. I've seen the AI put a catcher in at shortstop instead of moving the gold-glove converted-SS who was playing 3B over one spot, and inserting a bench player at 3B.

IMO, better AI lineup/positional logic would automatically create better "emergency" choices for all teams.

My recommended solution to this was conditional lineup settings. For example:

If Starting CF is unavailable, new lineup is: Bench OF starts in CF, bats 9th.
If Starting SS is unavailable: Move Starting 3B to SS, Bench IF starts at 3B, bats 8th.

This also has the added benefit of being a good way to plan for days off without actually having to micromanage the lineup. The game has already been told that if the CF needs a day off, the solution is to start the 4th OF in CF.

[mgom27]

I'm talking about at Rule 5 Draft in order to keep person and send him to Minors and need real Rule 5 Draft rules.

[frangipard]

Originally Posted by blasek0

My recommended solution to this was conditional lineup settings. For example:

If Starting CF is unavailable, new lineup is: Bench OF starts in CF, bats 9th.
If Starting SS is unavailable: Move Starting 3B to SS, Bench IF starts at 3B, bats 8th.

Yeah, but that still isn't going to cover all real emergencies; you also need to figure out what to do when BOTH your 3B and SS are out, and you have to move Bench IF to SS and find someone else for 3B, and the guy you have listed for the third choice there is already playing RF, and the fourth choice has already been used as a pinch-hitter.

1) There are just too many possibilities to make a conditional lineup for all of them.

2) Even if that would fix the problem for the player team, computer-controlled teams would still wind up doing irrational things.

The AI has to be better at simply looking at what players are available at any given time and making the best lineup. Especially when you're talking about in-game situations where multiple substitutions have already been made, depth charts hurt as much as they help.

[Honorable_Pawn]

Originally Posted by frangipard

It's terrible at position shifting; i.e. when the CF can't play due to injury, it will insert the highest-rated CF on the bench into his spot, even if the substitute is a terrible defender. In reality, the coach would move his LF or RF to center, and insert the bad defender in that spot. I've seen the AI put a catcher in at shortstop instead of moving the gold-glove converted-SS who was playing 3B over one spot, and inserting a bench player at 3B.

IMO, better AI lineup/positional logic would automatically create better "emergency" choices for all teams.

plus a million

[blasek0]

Originally Posted by frangipard

Yeah, but that still isn't going to cover all real emergencies; you also need to figure out what to do when BOTH your 3B and SS are out, and you have to move Bench IF to SS and find someone else for 3B, and the guy you have listed for the third choice there is already playing RF, and the fourth choice has already been used as a pinch-hitter.

But it does give a quick and easy solution for 95%+ of substitution situations. Combined with better positional logic, I think this is the route to go. So the AI would look at the conditional lineups, see if one of the preferred options is there, then use that if it can, moving to the next best lineup available if it can't.

[thehef]

Conditional lineups would be cool but I think one problem with them is that they would be an advantage human-controlled teams would have over AI teams. Because if the AI were smart enough to figure out sensible conditional lineups, then they wouldn't be needed in the first place. Or am I missing something?