Caliber of players when auto-filling rosters in a historical league

[kroney37]

So, the title was a bit long, but here goes:

I'm running the patched PC version.

I've been playing a game where I simmed the '92 season then took over the '93 Marlins. I've had the rosters autofill to have the minors stocked, and so that I'd actually get a few young players in the draft. However, I've noticed that the autocreated minor leaguers are very often:

Very slow runners, have poor baserunning instincts and are bad at stealing bases
Poor bunters, both for sacrificing and for hits

Has anyone else been finding this? They seem to be alright hitters (or have at least decent potential) and are alright fielders, but often really horrible in the other in the running and bunting categories.

[Go Middies]

I don't mean to hijack this thread if that's what this is but as a part (b), what is up with the created players for free agency/historical filling out? There're generally guys that have decent to good contact numbers but everything else is *horrible*. It seems to be an assembly line of 12/1/2/1/1 hitters who can only fill roster spots. How do we fix this?

[DougWyatt]

Originally Posted by kroney37

So, the title was a bit long, but here goes:

I'm running the patched PC version.

I've been playing a game where I simmed the '92 season then took over the '93 Marlins. I've had the rosters autofill to have the minors stocked, and so that I'd actually get a few young players in the draft. However, I've noticed that the autocreated minor leaguers are very often:

Very slow runners, have poor baserunning instincts and are bad at stealing bases
Poor bunters, both for sacrificing and for hits

Has anyone else been finding this? They seem to be alright hitters (or have at least decent potential) and are alright fielders, but often really horrible in the other in the running and bunting categories.

I haven't noticed this.

Can't help with the bunting stuff. But you can edit the speed of your created players in the Game Setup. By increasing speed, the other running ratings should follow suit.

Originally Posted by Go Middies

I don't mean to hijack this thread if that's what this is but as a part (b), what is up with the created players for free agency/historical filling out? There're generally guys that have decent to good contact numbers but everything else is *horrible*. It seems to be an assembly line of 12/1/2/1/1 hitters who can only fill roster spots. How do we fix this?

I thought I was seeing this before also. But then I noticed they just needed to be scouted.

Go to Game Setup/League Setup/Functions/Run SISA Rescout.

Hopefully this helps you as it did me.

[kroney37]

Originally Posted by DougWyatt

I haven't noticed this.

Can't help with the bunting stuff. But you can edit the speed of your created players in the Game Setup. By increasing speed, the other running ratings should follow suit.

Do you mean with the player creation modifiers? I don't know of any other way, and I was hoping to keep my team's (and league's) actual players. Do you know of any way of changing already-created player ratings en masse?

I've included a picture to help illustrate what I mean about player speeds. These are the players with the highest potential available. Of the eleven pages of available non-pitchers, only three non-historical players had a speed greater than two. Bunting ratings were siginificantly more varied, but still somewhat low.

[Curtis]

Originally Posted by kroney37

Do you know of any way of changing already-created player ratings en masse?

No, I don't. It sounds like you should join my campaign to add a 'mass select' option to the game.

[kroney37]

Originally Posted by Curtis

No, I don't. It sounds like you should join my campaign to add a 'mass select' option to the game.

Done and done. Whatever makes it easier to adjust groups of players.

[kroney37]

Anyone else finding that the game-added fictional players in historical leagues are way too slow?

[Nutlaw]

With historical leagues, I believe that the general idea is not to have fictional players overshadow the real players in any way. This may be one of the ways that this is done.

Regardless, kroney, have you seen this in more than one league, or just the one?

[kroney37]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

With historical leagues, I believe that the general idea is not to have fictional players overshadow the real players in any way. This may be one of the ways that this is done.

Regardless, kroney, have you seen this in more than one league, or just the one?

That makes sense, but isn't that what the player creation modifiers are for? I think for me the concern is that the patterns of their crappiness i.e. very slow/poor runners. If there was less regularity in these patterns, I'd be happy.

I've seen it in either two or three games that I've played.

[Nutlaw]

Tt 3580

[Nutlaw]

This was marked as something to consider for the next full release of the game.