Anyone playing with Skydog's suggestions?

[MizzouRah]

Today is a nice relaxing day at home and I think I'm going to use the suggestions Ben (Skydog) has made for a modern MLB type fictional career.

I've always used real players and I like the idea of creating my own universe as well as using the MLB model.

Just curious to see if anyone is using his settings and what results are you seeing?


Thanks,

Todd

[andymac]

We are using his settings in the OTBA, you can check out the stats if you want. The only strange thing we have noticed is a low number of walks. Here's the site.

www.otbaonline.com

Edit: Here's the link to our catobase which is probably the easiest place for you to look at stats.

http://www.otbaonline.com/OTBA/Catob...rds/index.html

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by andymac

We are using his settings in the OTBA, you can check out the stats if you want. The only strange thing we have noticed is a low number of walks. Here's the site.

www.otbaonline.com

Edit: Here's the link to our catobase which is probably the easiest place for you to look at stats.

http://www.otbaonline.com/OTBA/Catob...rds/index.html

Thanks!

[koohead]

you can check out the catobase of the first 11 years of the FBL through the link in my sig.

[MizzouRah]

Thanks to the both of you. I plodded around for awhile and decided to start my own universe using his settings. The only thing I did was leave the stadium settings at default. My 10 years of history is almost done and from there, I'll check everything out to see how the results look.

I plan on taking a distressed team and building from there.. assuming there is a clear cut winner.


Todd

[MizzouRah]

Here is the financial report after the 10 year initial sim:

League Financial Report
Thursday, 4/1/2014 
PAYROLLS 
 
#  Team Payroll         
1  Texas $128,723,500         
2  Washington $102,399,615         
3  Pittsburgh $98,717,399         
4  New York (A) $95,855,000         
5  Houston $95,205,671         
6  Los Angeles (N) $94,763,371         
7  Philadelphia $94,723,072         
8  Seattle $90,788,801         
9  New York (N) $89,731,672         
10  Toronto $89,664,000         
11  Atlanta $85,450,214         
12  San Diego $85,285,156         
13  Kansas City $82,681,513         
14  Cleveland $81,703,357         
15  Cincinnati $80,522,257         
16  Colorado $77,554,214         
17  Baltimore $76,400,814         
18  Milwaukee $73,236,243         
19  Detroit $72,406,800         
20  Boston $71,911,444         
21  Minnesota $66,407,357         
22  Arizona $65,359,143         
23  Chicago (A) $64,272,271         
24  Oakland $58,961,443         
25  San Francisco $57,688,328         
26  Los Angeles (A) $57,266,785         
27  St. Louis $55,276,799         
28  Tampa Bay $53,466,014         
29  Florida $49,511,986         
30  Chicago (N) $49,210,042         
 
HIGHEST PAID PLAYERS 
 
#  Pos  Name Team  Salary       
1  1B  Larry Jones PHI  $44,441,100       
2  P   Jeffery Wootton TEX  $37,014,000       
3  P   Scott Neace SEA  $29,813,000       
4  LF  Robert Carpino NY  $27,049,400       
5  P   Richard Sowa SD  $24,904,700       
6  C   Luis Ramirez NY  $23,188,000       
7  CF  Kyouhachirou Soichiro HOU  $22,668,500       
8  P   Bernardo Ruiz NY  $22,473,300       
9  P   Robert Body SF  $21,452,800       
10  2B  Raymond Brown DET  $21,267,400       
11  P   Bill Havel FLO  $21,227,200       
12  C   Martin Guerra KC  $20,598,700       
13  1B  Leroy Delee CLE  $20,282,000       
14  P   Hernan Villanueva BAL  $20,239,700       
15  1B  Earl Janson MIN  $19,907,800       
16  1B  Wilford Munos BAL  $19,874,000       
17  P   Michael Oja LAA  $19,456,200       
18  RF  Robby McCaw MON  $19,380,200       
19  P   Angel Sotelo ATL  $17,084,500       
20  3B  Vincent Ferber LA  $17,073,000       
21  2B  Shawn Whitford CHW  $16,674,200       
22  SS  Luis Herrera SL  $16,560,000       
23  1B  Albert Moreno ATL  $16,456,800       
24  SS  Daniel Ussery MON  $16,339,500       
25  2B  Michael Whitcomb PIT  $16,015,000

$44 Mil per year? Can you imagine his taxes?

Todd

[andymac]

That is one unfortunate side effect from SkyDog's modifiers. Ratings tend to be higher, so salaries are also going to be higher.

[Mike Ivie]

$44 million??? That nearly doubles the highest one I have seen.

[TonyJ]

I've been using his settings with some league setting modifiers (I found that there were too few home runs after about twenty years) and after 88 seasons I have seen no salary even close to that. Of course, I have team cash set at $20 million maximum.

[MogulChamp]

Yep TonyJ is correct here. It's the cash maximum. Set the cash max to around $10 million if you want lower salaries.

[cibl commish]

Finally getting around to this myself now.. Neat to see people are keeping their catobases and such online for this.. will be fun to compare.

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by TonyJ

I've been using his settings with some league setting modifiers (I found that there were too few home runs after about twenty years) and after 88 seasons I have seen no salary even close to that. Of course, I have team cash set at $20 million maximum.

I have it set to $20 million max, in fact everything is the same as what he has listed.

FWIW, I don't think it's a bad thing. I kind of like that this guy is Philly's one lone star, the next guy on their team is making a measly $10 mil per year.


Todd

[koohead]

I ended up going with a $20 million cash max along with a $120 million salary cap. As you see, salaries haven't gone much over $30 million...and most "high" ones are in the low $20's.

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by koohead

I ended up going with a $20 million cash max along with a $120 million salary cap. As you see, salaries haven't gone much over $30 million...and most "high" ones are in the low $20's.

Yes, that's why I wondered why I had a guy so high. I'm really liking the variety in the league with his settings.


Todd

[Gambo]

I use them. I think they work great.

[MizzouRah]

I've started a dynasty with his settings, you can read it HERE.

The thing I like so far is the varriance of stats, salaries, and team management. I know these settings are mainly player and stat producing, but after 10 years, I see a nice variety of numbers across the board.. although I've just scratched the surface of this league.

Todd

[Ben E Lou]

Ultimately, the deal with salaries is this: because several different things in OOTP don't work quite right, and only so many settings can be user-adjusted, *something* is going to have to give. It is impossible to get players who are close to the right age with close to the right stats with close to the right salaries. Because the game can adjust markets to fit the talent of the players in the league, it made the most sense to me to focus on season-to-season stats and career stats (which come with proper aging), rather than worry about salaries. The salaries work well within the context of the universe that they're in--meaning there's a nice delta between solid starters and stars, etc.--but they're not going perfectly to mirror MLB salary structure--at least not this season's.

[TonyJ]

Weird. My salaries have been somewhat higher than MLB with several players over twenty million per, but nothing like that salary structure and, as I mentioned, I'm almost a century in to the thing. I wonder what accounts for the difference.

[RchW]

I use them and like the results. The salaries are a little higher but not outrageous for 2036

[koohead]

Really enjoyed the detail and the player spotlights. Chief Wahoo must be loving life with the success your Indians have been having!

Quick question..what program are you using to generate your player faces?