"Frivolities" to improve immersion

[Cactusguy21]

In a competing game, the browser-based ZenGM, there is a page called "frivolities". These are basically pre-set database queries you can run to answer a variety of questions, such as:

Who has the most WAR among top 5 picks? Who has the least?
Who is the best player from each state? Each country?
What was the worst team to win a championship?
Who were the best players without a ring?
Rank all draft classes by total WAR
Which Jersey numbers have had the most successful players?
Who was traded the most times?
What was the most lopsided trade in terms of WAR before and after?



Additionally, this game has an excellent trade searching database. I can search trades by team and/or year. When I click the trade, it brings me to a screen showing the WAR earned by the players on each side before and after the trade. For the sports with draft pick trading, it also shows what player was selected with that draft pick. So you can go back to trades made years ago and get in one click a quick breakdown of what happened.


These are the sorts of features we need to better immerse ourselves in leagues, both real and fictional. They are just simple database queries, and would not take much to add to OOTP. (the dev of ZenGM is always adding new ones, and that is just one single dev for 4 games!).



For bigger fixes, please fix trade frequency. It's way too high on default. And make the immersive trade deadline have more offers to player characters!

[Supermercado]

Originally Posted by Cactusguy21

In a competing game, the browser-based ZenGM, there is a page called "frivolities". These are basically pre-set database queries you can run to answer a variety of questions, such as:

Who has the most WAR among top 5 picks? Who has the least?
Who is the best player from each state? Each country?
What was the worst team to win a championship?
Who were the best players without a ring?
Rank all draft classes by total WAR
Which Jersey numbers have had the most successful players?
Who was traded the most times?
What was the most lopsided trade in terms of WAR before and after?



Additionally, this game has an excellent trade searching database. I can search trades by team and/or year. When I click the trade, it brings me to a screen showing the WAR earned by the players on each side before and after the trade. For the sports with draft pick trading, it also shows what player was selected with that draft pick. So you can go back to trades made years ago and get in one click a quick breakdown of what happened.


These are the sorts of features we need to better immerse ourselves in leagues, both real and fictional. They are just simple database queries, and would not take much to add to OOTP. (the dev of ZenGM is always adding new ones, and that is just one single dev for 4 games!).

These could also provide replacements at random for some of the tired loading screen tips/facts/quotes.