Reasons for Retirement?

[Twelvefield]

[QUOTE=Henry] I even make notes in my league journal expounding on some of the events.

QUOTE]

All that's in my journal is a (currently) 2,046 page manifesto of unrequited anger at the world, in the form of a single paragraph.

[jmm8356]

[QUOTE=Twelvefield]

Originally Posted by Henry

I even make notes in my league journal expounding on some of the events.

QUOTE]

All that's in my journal is a (currently) 2,046 page manifesto of unrequited anger at the world, in the form of a single paragraph.

If you add "The End.", it will be 2048 and compress much better.

(It's not much of a joke; if you don't get it, don't worry. )

[Falcon52]

Originally Posted by Henry

What happened to imagination? In all my leagues, an idea comes to mind whenever anything happens. I even make notes in my league journal expounding on some of the events.

Yeah, I suppose the game could do that for you, but imagination actually has a lot more outcomes

If I wanted to "imagine", then I'd play a RPG.

I play baseball sims for the stats, or rather, for a quantative explanation for why events occur during my game.

[neohemp]

Originally Posted by Falcon52

If I wanted to "imagine", then I'd play a RPG.

I play baseball sims for the stats, or rather, for a quantative explanation for why events occur during my game.

I imagine.....

that you like to bitch about obscure things

[Henry]

Originally Posted by Falcon52

If I wanted to "imagine", then I'd play a RPG.

I play baseball sims for the stats, or rather, for a quantative explanation for why events occur during my game.

Well, as I said (or alluded to), if we leave it to the game to explain everything, Markus would have to add a ton of text-based reasoning behind many of the things that occur during the game. That would take time away from other things, and in the end, still wouldn't be variable enough. Then we would get the complaints of "I'm tired of reading Joe Blow retired because of one of 10 reasons" ... well yeah, your right.

[Falcon52]

Originally Posted by neohemp

I imagine.....

that you like to bitch about obscure things

if that's not flaming me, i'm not sure what is.

constructive response? negative.

pertaining to the original post? negative.

added something meaningful to the thread? negative.

[BaseballMan]

Originally Posted by Long_Long_Name

I'm confused, but whatever.

Could you be misconfused?

[ctorg]

I love making up interesting reasons for players to retire. Loss of interest or disillusionment. An off-season injury. Desire to go out on top and not have a decline.

Maddux retiring with 299 wins? I'd probably say he did it on purpose because he preferred the uneven look of 299 to boring old 300. Who knows?

[cgh3rd]

Originally Posted by Falcon52

if that's not flaming me, i'm not sure what is.

constructive response? negative.

pertaining to the original post? negative.

added something meaningful to the thread? negative.

Trying to get a guy in trouble in the forum doesn't come up with a positive answer either. There is an inconsistency in your statements wanting to know why a guy "really" retires and then only playing for the stats.

Maybe your 38 year old roided up MVP got caught in some real drug testing implemented by your league. You know that is one of the hidden ratings, steriod factor. There is a bug in the game when it comes to the steriod factor. The player is supposed to be banned from the league and his stats stricken from the record books but Markus has been not able to get it to work.

[RayofHope]

Just call it the "Ricky Williams Effect" or the "Barry Sanders Effect" or the "Robert Smith Effect" or the . . .