OOTP12 Wishlist: More Detailed Managerial/Personnel Records

[CONN CHRIS]

Thanks for that piece of information. I would really like this little feature to be added.

[CONN CHRIS]

Is there any other interest in this?

It is an admittedly small item but I would really love to have it and it seems to be a fairly simple thing.

[fintach]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Is there any other interest in this?

It is an admittedly small item but I would really love to have it and it seems to be a fairly simple thing.

I would like it as well. I'd love to be able to look at the past staff ERAs for a pitching coach, for example, or the BAs and OBPs for a Hitting Coach.

[PSUColonel]

To me, this is a must have

[Cras]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

To me, this is a must have

I agree with you on this. Ever since the new era of OOTP I thought it a bit of a shock that that was never listed somehow in the game. Its nice to see how managers move up the ranks to the MLs (at least my organization promotes the farm staff, not sure if AI clubs do), but it would really be nice to see that same information for the other positions.

And I will throw out another thing, adding first and third base coaches. Those are important positions too. Not sure how you would have their presence effect the players production, but those are important spots on a coaching staff where future/past managers tend to work in.

[endgame]

It's been pleaded for and on the wishlist for at least the last couple of versions. I have noticed the interest keeps growing every year. Simply put, it completes the picture and is as worthy as any recent campaign for addition. I hope we see it implemented.

Here's a another thread with thoughts: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...l-records.html

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Good idea

Well, code it then!

This would be fantastic.

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by endgame

It's been pleaded for and on the wishlist for at least the last couple of versions. I have noticed the interest keeps growing every year. Simply put, it completes the picture and is as worthy as any recent campaign for addition. I hope we see it implemented.

Here's a another thread with thoughts: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...l-records.html

I merged the two threads - same topic and I hadn't seen the one that pre-dated mine - thanks.

[Dan Kalvoski]

And I would love it if I could offer an aging player a coaching job, like FM. I have a 38-year-old ex-starter, ex-closer, now middle reliever. He holds team records for almost every team pitching category. I'd much rather have him coaching at AA than having all the retired players "disappear" and having a bunch Sam McGenerics available as coaches ...

[Shorty]

I'm nitpicking, but I kinda hate how on the ingame screen of managerial history it lists the AAA or Foreign lg W-L and history right there lumped between major league managerial history. If anything, it should be seperated I think, with major league managerial history being on top, and not totalled altogether.

Also kinda wish some long-tenured ML managers weren't so willing to go manage a minor league team...

[Syd Thrift]

oops double post!

[Syd Thrift]

Another oft-mentioned tweak to managers and coaches: once a league is old enough, *every single manager and coach* should be a former major or minor league player. The list of guys who have managed or coached at the major league level without major or minor league experience over the last 50 years is TMK two players long:

Ted Turner
John Boles

IRL this is an interesting piece of trivia. In OOTP it is the norm. I'd go so far as to say that even historical leagues ought to generate managers and coaches from the retired players database.

[cephasjames]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

Another oft-mentioned tweak to managers and coaches: once a league is old enough, *every single manager and coach* should be a former major or minor league player. The list of guys who have managed or coached at the major league level without major or minor league experience over the last 50 years is TMK two players long:

Ted Turner
John Boles

IRL this is an interesting piece of trivia. In OOTP it is the norm. I'd go so far as to say that even historical leagues ought to generate managers and coaches from the retired players database.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

Another oft-mentioned tweak to managers and coaches: once a league is old enough, *every single manager and coach* should be a former major or minor league player. The list of guys who have managed or coached at the major league level without major or minor league experience over the last 50 years is TMK two players long:

Ted Turner
John Boles

IRL this is an interesting piece of trivia. In OOTP it is the norm. I'd go so far as to say that even historical leagues ought to generate managers and coaches from the retired players database.

Yes! I go through the hassle of turning every player with 10 or more professional seasons into a coach upon retirement. I then edit them because every single one is created as a horribly rated bench coach by OOTP. The available personel pool has more than double the coaches needed in my game at all possitions.

Despite this, I am constantly finding (and deleting) random managers from Norway or Taiwan that the game creates.

[cephasjames]

Managers that come out of nowhere for anything other than the creation of the world are silly. Even when a new league starts after the creation of the world it should only take from the existing pool of coaches, not create new ones.

[kingcharlesxii]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

Another oft-mentioned tweak to managers and coaches: once a league is old enough, *every single manager and coach* should be a former major or minor league player. The list of guys who have managed or coached at the major league level without major or minor league experience over the last 50 years is TMK two players long:

Ted Turner
John Boles

IRL this is an interesting piece of trivia. In OOTP it is the norm. I'd go so far as to say that even historical leagues ought to generate managers and coaches from the retired players database.

Never really thought about it and realized it was that lopsided but you're absolutely correct!

[Cras]

I came across this in my leauge seeing managerial jobs being given to guys with not playing history. It got old trying to make up back stories in my mind. I do not have feeer leagues in my OOTP universe, only wanting to simulate and record professional ball, so I tend to see these guys as college coaches who were decent players in their youth but suffered a horrific injury that ended their playing days early. Needless to say, don't get much satisfaction doing this. ALL managers, at least any with the skill required to be considered for a major league job, should have been a player.

I have also come across a situation where a former player (a star pitcher) was turned into a coach three times. Not very nice to see, hopefully that could be looked into as well.

[endgame]

If he elects not to implement this on the short term, perhaps we can persuade him to at least add a Edit History function similar to the one players have so we can enter our own comments; at minimum, as Conn suggested, the where and with who for those important to us. But it would be sad to have such a meager workaround, when the ideal for this would provide so much more depth to the league.

[snepp]

A similar idea...

I would love to see discovered players listed in a scout's profile.

[Curtis]

Originally Posted by Cras

It's nice to see how managers move up the ranks to the MLs (at least my organization promotes the farm staff, not sure if AI clubs do), but it would really be nice to see that same information for the other positions.

And I will throw out another thing, adding first and third base coaches. Those are important positions too. Not sure how you would have their presence effect the players production, but those are important spots on a coaching staff where future/past managers tend to work in.

Third base coaches would need a 'baserunning' skill, to determine whether to send a runner. All a first base coach would need is two hands to collect the batting gloves and helmet from runners on first.

I don't promote farm staff on a systematic basis, but I do tend to sign personnel to long term contracts, followed by almost immediate extensions. Then guys move up or down the system to reflect their skill levels relative to the few new hires each season.