Playable College Baseball

[ryk]

With FHM 9 including playable college hockey, is this something that could potentially come to OOTP at some point?

[redranger]

Playable college hockey? Interesting. How does the recruiting work?


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[oldfatbaldguy]

Originally Posted by redranger

Playable college hockey? Interesting. How does the recruiting work?
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According to JeffR, "we've added a number of special mechanics to college team management, including a unique player recruitment system, details like managing scholarships and academic eligibility."

This seems like quite an undertaking and if it's pulled off, it'll be terrific. One of the fan groups that makes alternate databases added college hockey to Eastside Hockey Manager, but didn't do any special mechanics and it was basically just another junior league with names of colleges attached. That didn't seem worthwhile.

[ryk]

Yeah it'll be interesting to see how it works when the game comes out. But it seems like they have some kind of licensing in order to have that included in the game, right? In which case, it would be awesome to see that included in OOTP one day.

[Leo_The_Lip]

Originally Posted by ryk

Yeah it'll be interesting to see how it works when the game comes out. But it seems like they have some kind of licensing in order to have that included in the game, right? In which case, it would be awesome to see that included in OOTP one day.

Unclear what you mean here, but 'recruits' of the HS or college variety have no union, so there is no organization to negotiate a licensing agreement with.

[Leo_The_Lip]

While I'd like to see a college baseball option, it would take a lot of work to get 'real' players into the game--so I doubt that is a realistic possibility.

Fictional players would be excellent, but college baseball recruiting is very different from football or basketball. Factors such as half-scholarships (and other partial programs) would be required for even top-tier college teams. Local and legacy seem to be much bigger factors for most schools, too.

[ryk]

I meant licensing with the conferences to get the real world NCAA set-up (or something similar) in the game and make it playable. That seems to be what FHM is going for - I assume the players would be fictional, but it would make an interesting playable feeder league

[redranger]

I imagine it could be like how Wolverine Studios draft day does it. Simply make the structure, and allow modders the ability to create and make the name changes, logos, etc


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[mjryan65]

Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

While I'd like to see a college baseball option, it would take a lot of work to get 'real' players into the game--so I doubt that is a realistic possibility.

Fictional players would be excellent, but college baseball recruiting is very different from football or basketball. Factors such as half-scholarships (and other partial programs) would be required for even top-tier college teams. Local and legacy seem to be much bigger factors for most schools, too.

We have this conversation occasionally in the 3D Models Forum and I described the digital world I created to work in sync with OOTP. This weekend I started down the path of figuring out how to convert my code to executables so I can share it with the community, but if OOTP is doing something like this for hockey, it is only a matter of time before they bring it to baseball, so I will stop this new project and see what OOTP can do. For those of you who haven't seen it, below is the description of my digital world from the 3D Models Forum:

There are a few of us who play NCAA leagues, despite that OOTP is not set-up well for that. I have generated my own digital world that works in step with OOTP, and I share it now in hopes that our OOTP developers might look to add it in some future version. If I can program it, OOTP developers can program it in no time at all. The word doc in my ballpark directory describes my digital NCAA world in more detail than below.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmKh2fOWq2POru0-...41GfQ?e=HT8Gvr

In My Digital world, I have written software to:

* Manage AI and human(me) coach reputations

* Assess which NCAA team each recruit is interested in, and which recruits each NCAA team is interested in

* Execute a recruiting cycle where NCAA Teams sign recruits where higher reputation teams tend to get the better players, which I then insert back in OOTP as draft results

* Generate complete, realistic NCAA schedules every year

* Calculate RPI, track Conference standings and generate a Top 32 ranking throughout each week of each season.

* Manage Conference Tournament week (because OOTP can’t handle the variety of conference tournament approaches I use).

* Select the NCAA playoff field and manage the regional and Omaha playoff brackets (with 142 total teams, I go with a 32 team field comprised of 8-four team regional double elimination tournaments. The 8 winners go to Omaha)

* Calculate reputation changes for each team upon the conclusion of each season

* Calculate AI and human (me) coach reputation changes upon the conclusion of each season

* Manage the coach ‘silly season’ where teams fire underperforming coaches and hire good coaches away from lower reputation teams

[ryk]

FHM 9 has the correct conference set-up as well as real players - haven't gotten to put a great deal of time into it yet, but I am impressed so far.