suggestions for OOTP 18

jaa36 · 09-11-2016, 10:08 AM

Some things I'd love to see in OOTP 18. I've made many of these suggestions before, and many other suggestions have already been implemented!

1. Ability to enter or change award winners retroactively.

2. Better support for amateur baseball. I'd love to have a more true-to-life high school and college system. For colleges, they should have a "prestige" rating that would determine the quality of players that go there. There should be a weekly ranking system, and a College World Series at the end of the year. High school could be more abstracted- perhaps just generating a few hundred players with stats to simulate each class, but then having a recruiting model for the college level based on the college's prestige, and a rating for the player as far as how likely they were to sign with a major league team rather than going to college.

3. A few changes to stats. wRC and wRC+ should be in season and career leaderboards. RA9 and RA9-wins (or baseball reference WAR) should be added for pitchers and included in these leaderboards. Also, K%, BB%, K-BB%, shutdowns, meltdowns, and won-lost record while starting (in addition to the traditional definition of won-lost record) should be tracked for pitchers. wRAA and times reached on error should be included for hitters. The number of games a player has played at each position should also be viewable as a stat within a custom view- this really comes in handy for selecting all-stars.

4. Ability to loan players to other teams or leagues, such as for the World Baseball Classic or the Arizona Fall League.

5. Promotion-relegation, with the AI monitoring when a team is likely to get promoted or relegated and acting accordingly.

6. Selecting all-stars or all-pro team after the season and for leagues with only a single subleague and single division. Seeing games played per position (as in #3) would really help with this.

7. Awards. Option to only have a player from the winning team with the Series MVP award. Allowing the player to select or edit the Player of the Game or Series MVP awards. And finally, more than one Custom award.

8. A more dynamic injury system. I'd like the injury severity to get gradually better and worse- so that you really have to decide whether it's something the player can play through or needs to go on the DL. Then as the player rests, his readiness would gradually improve (80%, 85%, etc) and you'd have the option of bringing the player back, sending him to a rehab assignment, leaving him on the DL longer, etc. Bringing the player back to soon would risk further injury. This could be something that's very granular, as it's not realistic for the GM/manager to know that a player is truly 85% back to full health. Another thread also recently pointed out that the injury frequencies need to be looked at, that pitchers should probably be hurt more often and position players less often.

9. Control over what stats are displayed on the Standings, Statistics, and Leaderboards pages. I don't really care what the top OPS or hitting streaks are in the league, but I'd love to see wOBA and runs scored on the standings page instead, for example.

10. Better interface in the League Totals section. I should be able to see from this section very easily what the estimated statistical output will be for the league, including how (very approximately) the leaderboard will look. I'm sure that many people can relate to this, but I often spend hours trying to get the statistical output for a league just right, and the game should let me know what the estimated output will be without having to run the sim.

11. Calculation of projected park factors. The game should determine, based on the league totals modifiers and the parks that are in the game, what the estimated effect of the park will be on average, doubles, triples, home runs, and (most importantly) runs scored. As it stands, it can be hard to tell (except in very obvious cases) whether a park will function as a pitcher's or hitter's park.

12. Better roster rules for managing minor-league call-ups. In most cases in MLB, if a player is sent to AAA, he can't come back for 10 days. But in OOTP, you can rig the system to just send guys to and from AAA every few days.

13. More flexibility in pitching role management. I should be able to tell the AI that I want to limit the number of batters a pitcher faces- rather than have him on a strict pitch limit. I'd also like to be able to rank pitchers by how good they are and have the AI manager deploy the best in high-leverage situations and the worst in low-leverage situations. You can sort of do this with the "stopper" designation, but that's currently only available for "medium" or lower frequency of closer or reliever usage.

14. An easier way to rotate the DH among players that would otherwise start. A lot of teams do this now rather than have a full-time DH. I guess you can do this with seven-day lineups, but that's a lot of work. Perhaps just having a selection in the DH slot within the lineups page where you can just check "rotate among starters." Or perhaps allowing you on the player page to click a box for "start at DH when tired."

15. Better way to learn and unlearn positions. It's not realistic that a guy who is an excellent shortstop would take a million years to get up to speed at second base. Players shifting down on the defensive spectrum should pick up the new position very quickly. Some of the underlying ratings should translate a bit more easily, also- like perhaps there should be just one rating for arm, rather than a separate one for catching arm, infield arm, and outfield arm. Generally speaking, a player with good range and a good arm in the infield should translate into a very good corner outfielder with practice.

16. Option for extended spring training.

17. Better/more suggestions from scouting during the draft. Would like to be able to ask the head scout for a recommendation for a shortstop, for example, or at least hear their top five or something.

18. Better schedule generator and schedule editing interface. I'd like to be able to suggest how many games per team within the division, outside of the division, in the other league, etc, and have it throw out a schedule. And I'd like to be able to click and drag a game or series from one day to another day.

Thanks for looking at these. It's already such a great game, it's hard to imagine it getting much better.

mgom27 · 09-11-2016, 11:01 AM

I like most.

jaa36 · 11-15-2016, 09:02 PM

One more to add. The distribution of offensive talent along the defensive spectrum should be looked at. I believe others have commented on this a few months ago also, but there are far too many good hitting catchers that come into the league.

For example, I just started an eight-team league that I expanded to sixteen teams over the course of a hundred years. The Hall of Fame that I ended up with had a total of 117 players- 57 batters. Out of those, 18 were catchers, while only three played third base, and 11 played any outfield position. Among the top 20 all time in WAR, eight were catchers. That's not right.

It seems likely to me that catchers are generated with more offensive ability than they should to begin with- but also that they tend to play more games at catcher (less days off) than they should, and tend to be able to stay on the position for a larger chunk of their career than in real life. Though I haven't put in the time to study this more conclusively.

Lukas Berger · 11-16-2016, 07:21 AM

This is an excellent list of suggestions!

nroyce1 · 11-16-2016, 11:21 AM

these suggestions get the OOTP juices flowing

jpeters1734 · 11-16-2016, 02:07 PM

2. Better support for amateur baseball.

This would definitely add a unique mode to the game.

4. Ability to loan players to other teams or leagues, such as for the World Baseball Classic or the Arizona Fall League.

Aside from improvements to associations, this is my number one wish. Adding that functionality would improve so much to the game

5. Promotion-relegation, with the AI monitoring when a team is likely to get promoted or relegated and acting accordingly.

Would love to see it, but unfortunately. it's very low on the priorities

6. Selecting all-stars or all-pro team after the season and for leagues with only a single subleague and single division.

Yes!

9. Control over what stats are displayed on the Standings, Statistics, and Leaderboards pages. I don't really care what the top OPS or hitting streaks are in the league, but I'd love to see wOBA and runs scored on the standings page instead, for example.

I would also love to be able to customize that

11. Calculation of projected park factors.

The way it's set up now is not how park factors are supposed to work. Unless the league average is 1.000, it won't have the statistical output of your LTM's.

14. An easier way to rotate the DH among players

Yeah, the DH is currently hard to schedule.

15. Better way to learn and unlearn positions.

It does take far too long than you'd expect.

16. Option for extended spring training.

co-sign

17. Better/more suggestions from scouting during the draft.

co-sign

18. Better schedule generator and schedule editing interface.

Agreed!!

tshipl68 · 11-18-2016, 01:43 PM

I believe and agree about the associations part being able to have 4 or more subleague because went in play history replay cant add Union League,Players League or Federal League or any other sub league other then having just two subs

mgom27 · 11-19-2016, 09:56 AM

Hall of Fame 60,70,80 era vote at Winter Meetings for this year Will Clark,Mark McGwire,Bud Selig,Lou,John S.,George S. and so on get to choose from and still have Modern era one to.

garion333 · 02-08-2017, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaa36

K-BB%

This right here would save me a ton of time digging through players. It's better than K/BB.

09-11-2016, 10:08 AM	#1
jaa36 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 3,122	suggestions for OOTP 18 Some things I'd love to see in OOTP 18. I've made many of these suggestions before, and many other suggestions have already been implemented! 1. Ability to enter or change award winners retroactively. 2. Better support for amateur baseball. I'd love to have a more true-to-life high school and college system. For colleges, they should have a "prestige" rating that would determine the quality of players that go there. There should be a weekly ranking system, and a College World Series at the end of the year. High school could be more abstracted- perhaps just generating a few hundred players with stats to simulate each class, but then having a recruiting model for the college level based on the college's prestige, and a rating for the player as far as how likely they were to sign with a major league team rather than going to college. 3. A few changes to stats. wRC and wRC+ should be in season and career leaderboards. RA9 and RA9-wins (or baseball reference WAR) should be added for pitchers and included in these leaderboards. Also, K%, BB%, K-BB%, shutdowns, meltdowns, and won-lost record while starting (in addition to the traditional definition of won-lost record) should be tracked for pitchers. wRAA and times reached on error should be included for hitters. The number of games a player has played at each position should also be viewable as a stat within a custom view- this really comes in handy for selecting all-stars. 4. Ability to loan players to other teams or leagues, such as for the World Baseball Classic or the Arizona Fall League. 5. Promotion-relegation, with the AI monitoring when a team is likely to get promoted or relegated and acting accordingly. 6. Selecting all-stars or all-pro team after the season and for leagues with only a single subleague and single division. Seeing games played per position (as in #3) would really help with this. 7. Awards. Option to only have a player from the winning team with the Series MVP award. Allowing the player to select or edit the Player of the Game or Series MVP awards. And finally, more than one Custom award. 8. A more dynamic injury system. I'd like the injury severity to get gradually better and worse- so that you really have to decide whether it's something the player can play through or needs to go on the DL. Then as the player rests, his readiness would gradually improve (80%, 85%, etc) and you'd have the option of bringing the player back, sending him to a rehab assignment, leaving him on the DL longer, etc. Bringing the player back to soon would risk further injury. This could be something that's very granular, as it's not realistic for the GM/manager to know that a player is truly 85% back to full health. Another thread also recently pointed out that the injury frequencies need to be looked at, that pitchers should probably be hurt more often and position players less often. 9. Control over what stats are displayed on the Standings, Statistics, and Leaderboards pages. I don't really care what the top OPS or hitting streaks are in the league, but I'd love to see wOBA and runs scored on the standings page instead, for example. 10. Better interface in the League Totals section. I should be able to see from this section very easily what the estimated statistical output will be for the league, including how (very approximately) the leaderboard will look. I'm sure that many people can relate to this, but I often spend hours trying to get the statistical output for a league just right, and the game should let me know what the estimated output will be without having to run the sim. 11. Calculation of projected park factors. The game should determine, based on the league totals modifiers and the parks that are in the game, what the estimated effect of the park will be on average, doubles, triples, home runs, and (most importantly) runs scored. As it stands, it can be hard to tell (except in very obvious cases) whether a park will function as a pitcher's or hitter's park. 12. Better roster rules for managing minor-league call-ups. In most cases in MLB, if a player is sent to AAA, he can't come back for 10 days. But in OOTP, you can rig the system to just send guys to and from AAA every few days. 13. More flexibility in pitching role management. I should be able to tell the AI that I want to limit the number of batters a pitcher faces- rather than have him on a strict pitch limit. I'd also like to be able to rank pitchers by how good they are and have the AI manager deploy the best in high-leverage situations and the worst in low-leverage situations. You can sort of do this with the "stopper" designation, but that's currently only available for "medium" or lower frequency of closer or reliever usage. 14. An easier way to rotate the DH among players that would otherwise start. A lot of teams do this now rather than have a full-time DH. I guess you can do this with seven-day lineups, but that's a lot of work. Perhaps just having a selection in the DH slot within the lineups page where you can just check "rotate among starters." Or perhaps allowing you on the player page to click a box for "start at DH when tired." 15. Better way to learn and unlearn positions. It's not realistic that a guy who is an excellent shortstop would take a million years to get up to speed at second base. Players shifting down on the defensive spectrum should pick up the new position very quickly. Some of the underlying ratings should translate a bit more easily, also- like perhaps there should be just one rating for arm, rather than a separate one for catching arm, infield arm, and outfield arm. Generally speaking, a player with good range and a good arm in the infield should translate into a very good corner outfielder with practice. 16. Option for extended spring training. 17. Better/more suggestions from scouting during the draft. Would like to be able to ask the head scout for a recommendation for a shortstop, for example, or at least hear their top five or something. 18. Better schedule generator and schedule editing interface. I'd like to be able to suggest how many games per team within the division, outside of the division, in the other league, etc, and have it throw out a schedule. And I'd like to be able to click and drag a game or series from one day to another day. Thanks for looking at these. It's already such a great game, it's hard to imagine it getting much better.

09-11-2016, 11:01 AM	#2
mgom27 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3,533	I like most. __________________ Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

11-16-2016, 07:21 AM	#4
Lukas Berger OOTP Developments Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nice, Côte d'Azur, France Posts: 22,195	This is an excellent list of suggestions! __________________ lukas@ootpdevelopments.com Buy Out of the Park Baseball 27! Need to upload files for us to check out? Instructions can be found here

11-16-2016, 11:21 AM	#5
nroyce1 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 68	these suggestions get the OOTP juices flowing __________________ TBC http://tbclassic.com/ Seattle Metros GM 1973-1989, Seattle Grunge 90-95(current) #Brycecheats family of leagues and other universes

11-16-2016, 02:07 PM	#6
jpeters1734 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Juust a bit outside... Posts: 6,289	2. Better support for amateur baseball. This would definitely add a unique mode to the game. 4. Ability to loan players to other teams or leagues, such as for the World Baseball Classic or the Arizona Fall League. Aside from improvements to associations, this is my number one wish. Adding that functionality would improve so much to the game 5. Promotion-relegation, with the AI monitoring when a team is likely to get promoted or relegated and acting accordingly. Would love to see it, but unfortunately. it's very low on the priorities 6. Selecting all-stars or all-pro team after the season and for leagues with only a single subleague and single division. Yes! 9. Control over what stats are displayed on the Standings, Statistics, and Leaderboards pages. I don't really care what the top OPS or hitting streaks are in the league, but I'd love to see wOBA and runs scored on the standings page instead, for example. I would also love to be able to customize that 11. Calculation of projected park factors. The way it's set up now is not how park factors are supposed to work. Unless the league average is 1.000, it won't have the statistical output of your LTM's. 14. An easier way to rotate the DH among players Yeah, the DH is currently hard to schedule. 15. Better way to learn and unlearn positions. It does take far too long than you'd expect. 16. Option for extended spring training. co-sign 17. Better/more suggestions from scouting during the draft. co-sign 18. Better schedule generator and schedule editing interface. Agreed!! __________________ "Cannonball Coming!" Go Bucs!! Founder and League Caretaker of the Professional Baseball Circuit, www.probaseballcircuit.com An Un-Official Guide to Minor League Management in OOTP 21 Ratings Scale Conversion Cross-Reference Cheat Sheet Last edited by jpeters1734; 11-16-2016 at 03:23 PM.

11-15-2016, 09:02 PM	#3
jaa36 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 3,122	one more One more to add. The distribution of offensive talent along the defensive spectrum should be looked at. I believe others have commented on this a few months ago also, but there are far too many good hitting catchers that come into the league. For example, I just started an eight-team league that I expanded to sixteen teams over the course of a hundred years. The Hall of Fame that I ended up with had a total of 117 players- 57 batters. Out of those, 18 were catchers, while only three played third base, and 11 played any outfield position. Among the top 20 all time in WAR, eight were catchers. That's not right. It seems likely to me that catchers are generated with more offensive ability than they should to begin with- but also that they tend to play more games at catcher (less days off) than they should, and tend to be able to stay on the position for a larger chunk of their career than in real life. Though I haven't put in the time to study this more conclusively.

11-18-2016, 01:43 PM	#7
tshipl68 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Decatur Tennessee Posts: 178	I believe and agree about the associations part being able to have 4 or more subleague because went in play history replay cant add Union League,Players League or Federal League or any other sub league other then having just two subs

11-19-2016, 09:56 AM	#8
mgom27 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3,533	Hall of Fame 60,70,80 era vote at Winter Meetings for this year Will Clark,Mark McGwire,Bud Selig,Lou,John S.,George S. and so on get to choose from and still have Modern era one to. __________________ Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!