Post issues with the Major League roster sets here, please!

[Roycebrown]

Should Brett Lawrie really have 20 speed? Sure, he appears to be a good baserunner & will swipe his fair share of bases, but he doesn't look in the same speed class as guys like McCutchen, Borbon, Juan Pierre, Carlos Gomez, Reyes, Ellsbury & Brett Gardner....

Aaron Crow should probably have better than 5 stamina (49 actual rating), considering he was part of the Royals rotation this spring prior to the injury to Soria.

[BusterKing]

Originally Posted by Roycebrown

Should Brett Lawrie really have 20 speed? Sure, he appears to be a good baserunner & will swipe his fair share of bases, but he doesn't look in the same speed class as guys like McCutchen, Borbon, Juan Pierre, Carlos Gomez, Reyes, Ellsbury & Brett Gardner....

Aaron Crow should probably have better than 5 stamina (49 actual rating), considering he was part of the Royals rotation this spring prior to the injury to Soria.

Hey, leave my Brett Lawrie alone. He's being predicted as a superstar!

[BusterKing]

Originally Posted by cody8200

Don't take offense. It didn't help my opinion of him after his horrible start yesterday and he was on my fantasy baseball team.

He had ONE bad inning, give him a break. And Jays still won that game.

I also feel that he's underrated in this set. Give him more love.

[CubbyFan23]

Originally Posted by Roycebrown

Should Brett Lawrie really have 20 speed? Sure, he appears to be a good baserunner & will swipe his fair share of bases, but he doesn't look in the same speed class as guys like McCutchen, Borbon, Juan Pierre, Carlos Gomez, Reyes, Ellsbury & Brett Gardner....

Aaron Crow should probably have better than 5 stamina (49 actual rating), considering he was part of the Royals rotation this spring prior to the injury to Soria.

Grabbed those last night, made Crow a bullpen emergency relief guy w potential to be a full time starter.

[gord]

Attendance figures for all teams are missing for the years 2009 and 2010.

[Rhadamantis82]

Ok...i started five Major League games and i have to say the results are absolutely outstanding in terms of randomization and stats, great job guys! I'll just post here the few weird things i think should be corrected even though i don't know how.


Out of the five seasons simulated, David Freese has been traded four times and all the time for really mediocre players in return. The only time he was not traded away, it was because of a season-ending injury.


Sergio Santos, Ryan Vogelsong, Mike Carp and Carlos Gomez have all been traded four times. Gomez looks like very overrated and i think i already saw something in the previous posts but for the other three guys the players in return were absolutely not worth of a roster spot so i don't know if something has to be tweaked.


Kendrys Morales has been traded two times (that's ok) but the weird thing is that in both the cases he was later waived by the team who traded for him even though his numbers were very good.


Eric Hosmer always start the season at Triple-A and stays there for a while (that happened in three seasons, then decided to lock him on the Active roster demoting Robinson). Once in the majors, Hosmer's numbers are absolutely realistic so maybe the problem is Clint Robinson being rated too high and that AI actually put Hosmer in the minors because of him.


Clippard was traded twice, in both cases for worthless players and in all the five seasons his ERA was never under 3.43....i think it's a bit high for a guy who has developed into one of the premier setup men in the league.


Another note is that premium prospects get traded too much in my opinion for a bunch of minor league average guys. That happened for Hultzen, Bauer, Starlin and Lindor. And those guys all appear rated high in the top100 prospects list.


About the stamina thing that i previously reported, once set at 1.000 i confirm that provides a realistic number of Innings Pitched.


Hopefully those things above will be useful and you can look into them so that when Monday's patch get released they will all be fixed or at least tweaked.


Again congrats for the great job!

[Jamee999]

Johnny Damon's arm is rated 10/20?

[goldfinger77]

Originally Posted by Roycebrown

Should Brett Lawrie really have 20 speed? Sure, he appears to be a good baserunner & will swipe his fair share of bases, but he doesn't look in the same speed class as guys like McCutchen, Borbon, Juan Pierre, Carlos Gomez, Reyes, Ellsbury & Brett Gardner....

Aaron Crow should probably have better than 5 stamina (49 actual rating), considering he was part of the Royals rotation this spring prior to the injury to Soria.

Lawrie should probably have a 2B rating - he played 43 games there for Toronto last year, but only 1 at 3B.

[polydamas]

Someone probably caught this already but Yefri Carvajal has 19 contact and 16 avoid K. Yefri is a minor league pitcher who has a lifetime sub-.300 obp that he got mostly in A ball.

[John Locke]

Joe Mauer should have a Positional Rating for 1B.

[akw4572]

I just noticed, I simmed out until 2024, looking through the leaderboards. There is no Cy Young, he was left out?

[bwburke94]

Originally Posted by akw4572

I just noticed, I simmed out until 2024, looking through the leaderboards. There is no Cy Young, he was left out?

Known bug from past versions. I encountered this one too. This may be because Young played pre-1901.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by goldfinger77

Lawrie should probably have a 2B rating - he played 43 games there for Toronto last year, but only 1 at 3B.

No. Lawrie has not played 2B since 2010 in the Milwaukee system.

[metal134]

I'd like to know why the Indians' ratings don't reflect them to be the offensive juggernaut that we all know they are.

I'm sorry, I couldn't even type that with a straight face.

[haveband]

Originally Posted by metal134

I'd like to know why the Indians' ratings don't reflect them to be the offensive juggernaut that we all know they are.

I'm sorry, I couldn't even type that with a straight face.

First time I have laughed all day

To be honest when we first got beta for 13, the Indians repeatedly won their division year one for me. I honestly did about 15 one year sims and in about 10 of them they won the division, never winning it all but going to the series like 3 times.

[injury log]

Re Lawrie's 2B rating and other similar suggestions, there are some compromises we need to make in the roster set so that the results will be realistic. Ideally Lawrie could have a bad 2B rating, but in practice, if he does, the AI will be very tempted to use him there. So in some cases, to make sure the AI uses players as they will be used in real life, we have to give people 0 experience at positions they aren't ever going to play. If Lawrie does end up playing some at 2B in real life, maybe it would be worthwhile giving him a bad rating there, but I don't think that will happen.

[Roycebrown]

Originally Posted by injury log

Re Lawrie's 2B rating and other similar suggestions, there are some compromises we need to make in the roster set so that the results will be realistic. Ideally Lawrie could have a bad 2B rating, but in practice, if he does, the AI will be very tempted to use him there. So in some cases, to make sure the AI uses players as they will be used in real life, we have to give people 0 experience at positions they aren't ever going to play. If Lawrie does end up playing some at 2B in real life, maybe it would be worthwhile giving him a bad rating there, but I don't think that will happen.

Well this makes sense, and also makes me sad that I wasted about 2 hours of my life adjusting various players to add positions they've played in the past that were not included in their OOTP profile.

What about Buster Posey? He played some 1B for the Giants, along with of course being a great catcher.....I would assume that his skill & hitting ability at catcher would make the AI play him there and find an alternate at 1B even if Posey was eligible there....

[RchW]

Originally Posted by injury log

Re Lawrie's 2B rating and other similar suggestions, there are some compromises we need to make in the roster set so that the results will be realistic. Ideally Lawrie could have a bad 2B rating, but in practice, if he does, the AI will be very tempted to use him there. So in some cases, to make sure the AI uses players as they will be used in real life, we have to give people 0 experience at positions they aren't ever going to play. If Lawrie does end up playing some at 2B in real life, maybe it would be worthwhile giving him a bad rating there, but I don't think that will happen.

Lawrie has no MLB 2B experience and hasn't played the position since 2010 so you did the right thing.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by Roycebrown

Well this makes sense, and also makes me sad that I wasted about 2 hours of my life adjusting various players to add positions they've played in the past that were not included in their OOTP profile.

Well, it's your game, so if you'd like to play in a baseball universe where Lawrie might be able to play 2B from time to time, by all means give him a 2B rating - nothing wrong with that! I often wish we could give players experience at additional positions, but when we try to make the Depth Charts match real life, it can become impossible to persuade the AI to play people in the right spots. So we sacrifice one type of realism (some players don't have ratings at positions where perhaps they should) for another type - we can get the AI to use more players the way they're being used in real life. It's a matter of taste what you prefer, but for the roster set, we've always prioritized getting players to play the right positions.

The same happens with pitchers - some relief pitchers in real life are probably at least capable of starting, but if we give them ratings that would let them start, the AI will use them as SPs. So again a compromise needs to be made.

Originally Posted by Roycebrown

What about Buster Posey? He played some 1B for the Giants, along with of course being a great catcher.....I would assume that his skill & hitting ability at catcher would make the AI play him there and find an alternate at 1B even if Posey was eligible there....

Posey has played 32 games at 1B in the Majors, so he should definitely have a rating there. He doesn't appear to in my game, though his infield ratings are good enough that he'd learn it pretty fast, at least.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by RchW

Lawrie has no MLB 2B experience and hasn't played the position since 2010 so you did the right thing.

Originally Posted by mikestack

Do know that your effort is appreciated by at least one obsessive baseball fan

... and I should add that while I've pitched in on the roster sets for the last few versions, I'm responsible for at most 1% of the set this year - I was mostly rating minor leaguers from some of the BA top 30 prospect lists this time around. I'm just commenting in this thread because I know the roster creation process inside out, but it's haveband and cubbyfan who deserve all the credit for the great set this year.