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01-08-2014, 04:58 PM | #42 |
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Matt Moore was caught cheating on his wife in my game. Is he even married?
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There were whispers of some mental disorders (social anxiety and such), which may explain the pot use. So applying that to the golf situation, there may have been more to the story than what was reported. Maybe in his world golf is more lucrative. Maybe he has rich parents and didn't need the money. Maybe he figured he'd have a longer career in golf (cause you can play until you're like 90). Maybe he just never liked baseball to begin with, but was just good at it and kept getting contracts. Maybe he was getting bullied in the locker room and switched to a non-team sport. Maybe he just really, really loves golf. That's why I like the outlandish, it makes you think up interesting backstories --- Perhaps this belongs in another post, but I'll throw it in here: I think storylines should be expanded --yes, expanded! -- to the point where they're common. Just make most of them benign, so that you never really know what's happening, but it puts ideas/hopes/doubts in your head -- placebo effect. And it gives you something to read as you're simming out the season. Better immersion without adding any core code. |
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01-09-2014, 10:56 AM | #46 |
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It might not be that unlikely, think about it. Golfers can make large amounts of money, they have less "games" to play per year, and there's definitely a lesser chance for a career ending injury and if you get too old for the PGA Tour, you can join the Senior PGA Tour
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Folks thinking golfers don't make much money need to check the PGA TOUR tournament results. One Top 5 finish in a regular ho-hum event will make you as much or more money as a fringe NFL player will make in an entire season. And any decent golfer can get hot on a weekend.
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01-11-2014, 04:17 PM | #49 |
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If a year ago in ootp13, a storyline came about that a star player on a powerhouse team was accused of a gangland murder and was suspect in a previous double murder, ending his young career, im sure at least a few people would state how unbelievable that storeyline is. Anything can happen. I understand the dissaponment of a prospect on your team, that you watched progress and were excited for, walked away, but for me, thats something that COULD happen and makes the game fun for me.
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01-12-2014, 05:49 AM | #50 |
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Grant Desme quit to become a priest. Adrian Cardenas walked away because he no longer enjoyed the game.
Neither was a top prospect at the time but I know Desme was well thought of and was doing very well in the minors. Cardenas didn't fare well in his big league debut but seemed to be in the Cubs plans when he retired. |
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I was reading this Baseball Prospectus | Baseball ProGUESTus: Why Baseball Players Get Injured in Amazingly Weird Ways and thought of this thread. and I was also laughing my butt off.
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01-28-2014, 07:19 AM | #52 |
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In my MLB game, a 2nd round pick of mine became discouraged hitting .240 in AA and chucked baseball to enter the NBA draft.
This was the same month that AJ Burnett retired to run for governor and BJ Upton went to prison for defrauding investors in one of his companies. Crazy days. |
01-28-2014, 09:57 AM | #53 |
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This happened all the time
Problem is, you never hear of them But some famous guys people might have Bill Lange - Left for love...didn't work out, he could have been a HOFer Mike Donlin, left for Hollywood in his prime Henry Schmidt - Wonderful pitcher, he and Nap Rucker could have made the Brooklyn Superbas contenders, but...he didn't like the East Coast John McGraw called Heinie Stafford one of the best pure talents he had ever seen in 1916, and Staffors helped Tufts beat baseball titan Harvard and led the nation in runs, Sbs and F%. Yet Stafford wanted to be a chemist and he helped develop nylon, and in retirement became a dairy farmer and assemblyman in VT. It happens a lot. Baseball is not the love of everyone, as much as that pains me. I wish I could get their talent as I played in the minors, loved it, studied it and that means squat if you don't have the talent.
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Your main demographic are old white men with too much money You get to 'hide' taxable money by playing all over the world Adverts, you are your own billboard No wear and tear, so you can play until you are 80 if you are average enough AND TOP 10 Prospect would never do it because he'll make MILLIONS? Say hello to Brian Taylor Todd Van Poppel --remember that guy? Roger Salkeid Tyrone Hill Sean Burroughs Ryan Anderson Kiki Jones Allen Watson and these are just the guys around my draft class
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01-28-2014, 10:40 AM | #55 |
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There are some interesting draft stories IRL, my favourite concerns Matt Harrington.
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01-28-2014, 11:39 AM | #56 | |
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He is currently working at Costco in the tire department for $11.50 hr I think I will start FA in my league then kill Scott Boras in a 1984 news story, and go to a compromise between FA and the Reserve Clause. I'll call it the Bye Bye Boras rule
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Given that the league was edited to put the player back into the league, for the stated reason of seeing how the career played out, it seems to me that this guy was coming back, regardless of his motivation for retirement. I agree with the quote above, though - there should be an easy way to allow the user to edit (add / remove / alter) events and storylines. That way, each user can make up his own storylines, reasons for retirement, if he wants to. If my hottest prospect left my team to play golf, I would be asking him to return any signing bonus I paid him. If my hottest prospect left my team because he was abducted by aliens, I would move my minor league team away from Nevada.
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01-28-2014, 12:57 PM | #58 |
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and it's needed for managers leaving due to contract not being offered, you hear nothing, they just leave after 4 years of .625% ball
Owners dying or selling team...ugh, hate those. If I am Commish(god mode) I should change owners
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01-28-2014, 01:30 PM | #59 | |
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Storylines would be perfect for fleshing out that area of the game. For instance, a player with a low loyalty score and a high greed score might end up in a gambling scandal. A player with a low intelligence score might run afoul of a con man who takes all his money. A player with a high intelligence score and a low work ethic might quit the game to become a politician. That would make personality ratings more important and would make storylines a little less unpredictable. |
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