Auction options

comedian2019 · 03-01-2021, 06:07 PM

More ways to sort the auctions are needed.

Not only by ratings, but their real life stats. I would love to be able to sort by their WHIP or their HRs, etc...

It would also be nice if we could see their actual stats for the year in question without having to go to baseball-reference

chazzycat · 03-01-2021, 08:29 PM

Not disagreeing that more options for sorting the AH would be nice. But real life stats? WHIP?

You may be interested in knowing that the game uses a FIP model for pitching, so WHIP would be a horrible stat to use, as hits are completely outside the pitchers control in the game engine.

Also, real life stats go through a lot of normalization to arrive at the ratings. So I think in general, this is a bad idea and would only lead to a lot more "this player did X in real life, why is he falling short of X in perfect team" type complaints. The ratings are what's most important in the end.

BigRed75 · 03-03-2021, 10:19 AM

Yeah, of all the things we need to be able to sort by on the auction house, real life stats is...not on the list

Bobfather · 03-04-2021, 03:57 PM

I have no idea about auctions never used them. But if real-life sts may help some people then add them. Then everyone has a choice to use them or not. What's wrong with that?

chazzycat · 03-04-2021, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobfather

I have no idea about auctions never used them. But if real-life sts may help some people then add them. Then everyone has a choice to use them or not. What's wrong with that?

The point I was trying to make was that it will not help anyone, and in fact is likely to hurt many new players. Real life stats go through a normalization process, to account for the different historical eras, and then the normalized stats are converted to ratings. Those ratings are the only thing that matters (that determine the outcomes). So if the ratings are shown, then logically it follows that real life pre-normalized stats are just completely useless.

Furthermore some stats could be very misleading. For example WHIP is a stat that is heavily used in some circles like fantasy baseball, so people think it's important. However in the OOTP game engine, WHIP is meaningless for pitchers, because base hits are controlled by BABIP and defensive ratings...the pitcher has nothing to do with it. Allowing players to sort by something like that would be doing a huge disservice to the player base.

I get the point you're trying to make that having more options to please more people is generally a good thing, and those who don't like it can just abstain from using it. However in this instance it could really hurt new players and I don't think it's a good idea.

Craignum · 03-04-2021, 07:23 PM

I just wish we could sort by nationality. I love putting together Team Canada and trying to find Canadians (let alone figuring out which ones I should even look for) is annoying.

Crazyjoe0813 · 03-05-2021, 04:59 PM

One think I wish we could toggle is searching for cards that I don't already have.

Galeg · 03-05-2021, 08:20 PM

I want to be able to hide duplicates of cards I own so bad.

chazzycat · 03-05-2021, 08:25 PM

That is a good one for sure. I would also really like to see a filter for handedness, i.e. show only lefties or righties.

BigRed75 · 03-06-2021, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Galeg

I want to be able to hide duplicates of cards I own so bad.

As it was explain in the past, it would take a massive number of server calls for this to happen, essentially reducing search to a crawl.

But the highlighting in red is client-side, so no drain on resources

03-01-2021, 06:07 PM	#1
comedian2019 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 239	Auction options More ways to sort the auctions are needed. Not only by ratings, but their real life stats. I would love to be able to sort by their WHIP or their HRs, etc... It would also be nice if we could see their actual stats for the year in question without having to go to baseball-reference __________________ https://challenge.ootpdevelopments.c...rlarry2020.jpg

03-03-2021, 10:19 AM	#3
BigRed75 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,430	Yeah, of all the things we need to be able to sort by on the auction house, real life stats is...not on the list __________________ Mainline team SPTT team Was not a Snag fan...until I saw the fallout once he was gone and realized what a good job he was actually doing. - Ty Cobb

03-04-2021, 07:23 PM	#6
Craignum Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 40	I just wish we could sort by nationality. I love putting together Team Canada and trying to find Canadians (let alone figuring out which ones I should even look for) is annoying. __________________

03-01-2021, 08:29 PM	#2
chazzycat All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 1,685	Not disagreeing that more options for sorting the AH would be nice. But real life stats? WHIP? You may be interested in knowing that the game uses a FIP model for pitching, so WHIP would be a horrible stat to use, as hits are completely outside the pitchers control in the game engine. Also, real life stats go through a lot of normalization to arrive at the ratings. So I think in general, this is a bad idea and would only lead to a lot more "this player did X in real life, why is he falling short of X in perfect team" type complaints. The ratings are what's most important in the end.

03-04-2021, 03:57 PM	#4
Bobfather All Star Starter Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Boston Ma. Posts: 1,628	I have no idea about auctions never used them. But if real-life sts may help some people then add them. Then everyone has a choice to use them or not. What's wrong with that?

03-05-2021, 04:59 PM	#7
Crazyjoe0813 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 87	One think I wish we could toggle is searching for cards that I don't already have.

03-05-2021, 08:20 PM	#8
Galeg Major Leagues Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 405	I want to be able to hide duplicates of cards I own so bad.

03-05-2021, 08:25 PM	#9
chazzycat All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 1,685	That is a good one for sure. I would also really like to see a filter for handedness, i.e. show only lefties or righties.