Features I Want To See!!!

WashingtonState · 04-03-2004, 04:52 PM

FEATURES I WANT TO SEE!:
If not in manager mode, it would be neat if you could hire a manager of your own. There should also be more coaching positions: Bench coach, bullpen coach. Also, coaches, like in real life, should work their way up through the minors. you should have a bench coac/pitching coach/hitting coach/manager for all minor league teams. If you are not happy with your major league manager, you could fire him to make your bench coach manager, or call up your AAA head man. It is such a big aspect of baseball, it should be in. At least, have bench and bullpen coaches who work their way up through the minors, and have more detailed performance records, i.e. stats, ratings. This would make your game perfect. Anyone agree?

Draft Dodger · 04-03-2004, 04:57 PM

I don't think that feature alone would make the game perfect, no.

it would be nice to see, but I think a high percentage of OOTPers play with coaches off anyway, and might prefer to see resources allocated to other improvements.

merlin9761 · 04-03-2004, 05:20 PM

i like that idea alot about more coach and manager options.I think that would add another cool aspect to the game.

bosunmate · 04-03-2004, 06:09 PM

Your right Draftdodger I have just started recently turning coaches off also when I play. I found it to be a real pain especially if I had no money for coaches and scouts. I find it better without.

sadangelclown · 04-03-2004, 06:12 PM

"I found it to be a real pain especially if I had no money for coaches and scouts."
I think the coaching system is great because it adds that extra challenge and realism.

Draft Dodger · 04-03-2004, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by sadangelclown
"I found it to be a real pain especially if I had no money for coaches and scouts."
I think the coaching system is great because it adds that extra challenge and realism.

except in single player, it is really easy to outbid the computer opponent.

WashingtonState · 04-03-2004, 06:47 PM

Other features:
Being able to sign some players out of retirement. This happens often in real-life(Clemens, etc.), and I have had 36 year old mvps retire who would certainly not do so in the majors. It would be neat if some players would say no, but some would say yes...

greyhound06 · 06-19-2004, 06:42 PM

Here are a couple of things I would like to see:

1. Different menu options when the game loads. Besides creating a league or continuing a league how about "open league." Its a simple thing to add and i find it very frustrating if I'm switching back and forth between my own league and an online league or two online leagues or something to have to continue league, wait for it to load, then open the league you want and have to wait for the first one to save then load the next one. The game already runs excruciatingly slow and this just adds to it. I especially hate it when I'm having trouble getting something to work ie opening an online league after a sim, when the game starts to crash whenever i do something. It makes a frustrating situation even worse when you have to load and save a league before you can get to the one you want.

2. I saw it mentioned but I'm gonna say it again because I dont even understand how it wasnt in OOTP2 let alone OOTP6...TRADING DRAFT PICKS!!!!

3. I think it would be cool if when you go to view the Top 100 Prospects report it would show according to your scout not a league average scout. That's what I pay the big bucks to the legendary scout for.

twins15 · 06-19-2004, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by WashingtonState

Other features:
Being able to sign some players out of retirement. This happens often in real-life(Clemens, etc.), and I have had 36 year old mvps retire who would certainly not do so in the majors. It would be neat if some players would say no, but some would say yes...

Yeah, a great player that is still young and good would never retire.

Signed,
Barry Sanders

Dogzilla · 06-20-2004, 04:51 AM

I would like to see internal support for swapping teams/players between leagues. I have 2 leagues where teams are promoted/relegated ala European soccer and need to move teams/players back and forth. I use the external utility now, but it is buggy and clumsy. Something like the "edit league structure" screen but with the ability to open 2 leagues at once.

tcblcommish · 06-20-2004, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by greyhound06

2. I saw it mentioned but I'm gonna say it again because I dont even understand how it wasnt in OOTP2 let alone OOTP6...TRADING DRAFT PICKS!!!!

I would like to see this also for online leagues but I think that the reason it isn't in ootp is because it isn't in real life. Not 100% sure but I think that's why.

Dan Theman · 06-21-2004, 02:45 PM

You guys might be interested in this idea that I've been floating:
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ad.php?t=62023

UngratefulDead · 06-21-2004, 06:48 PM

Actually, in real life, trading of draft picks is rather common..

SoxWin · 06-21-2004, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by UngratefulDead

Actually, in real life, trading of draft picks is rather common..

Well, I suppose it would be, if it was allowed. But it's not.

MLB teams can't trade draft picks. They can't even trade guys they picked for a certain time limit (I want to say 6 months but I could be wrong)

DiMaggio5CF · 06-21-2004, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by UngratefulDead

Actually, in real life, trading of draft picks is rather common..

Yeah, I'm not sure exactly where you got that from because it's completely wrong. Not only is trading draft picks not common, it's not legal.

In the NFL and other sports, teams can trade draft picks. In Major League Baseball, they cannot.

The only way to "exchange" draft picks in the MLB is through compensation for losing free agents.

Basically, if a team loses a Type A free agent (a player a certain top percentage of players at his position -- I want to say 10%, but I'm not sure), then they get the first-round draft pick of the team that gets that player and a sandwich pick between the first and second round.

The only exception to that is that a team cannot lose its first-round pick if it is in the top half of the draft. I believe, in that case, that the team that lost the free agent would get the second-round pick of the signing team, but I'm not sure about that.

The only rule is that, to get a compensation pick, the team that loses the free agent has to offer him arbitration. If you don't offer the player arbitration, you don't get draft compensation. That's why the Braves didn't get a pick from the Yankees for Gary Sheffield. The problem with offering a player arbitration is that he might accept it; and if you can't afford it, then you're in financial trouble.

I believe losing a Type B free agent (the next percentage bracket) results in getting a sandwich pick between the first and second round, but no draft pick from the signing team (or maybe it's the other way around -- I forget).

So in Major League Baseball, draft picks can move from team to team based on compensation for free agents.

But actually trading draft picks is strictly prohibited.

Where, may I ask, did you get your false information from?

UngratefulDead · 06-22-2004, 02:41 AM

Okay, you guys are totally right. What I had taken as trading of draft picks was, as you said, free agent compensation. Learn something new every day..

04-03-2004, 04:52 PM	#1
WashingtonState Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 13	Features I Want To See!!! FEATURES I WANT TO SEE!: If not in manager mode, it would be neat if you could hire a manager of your own. There should also be more coaching positions: Bench coach, bullpen coach. Also, coaches, like in real life, should work their way up through the minors. you should have a bench coac/pitching coach/hitting coach/manager for all minor league teams. If you are not happy with your major league manager, you could fire him to make your bench coach manager, or call up your AAA head man. It is such a big aspect of baseball, it should be in. At least, have bench and bullpen coaches who work their way up through the minors, and have more detailed performance records, i.e. stats, ratings. This would make your game perfect. Anyone agree?

04-03-2004, 04:57 PM	#2
Draft Dodger Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: formerly of the OTBL Posts: 4,113	I don't think that feature alone would make the game perfect, no. it would be nice to see, but I think a high percentage of OOTPers play with coaches off anyway, and might prefer to see resources allocated to other improvements. __________________ Draft Dodger (Anarchy: Anything goes. The Draft Dodger viewpoint.) Sophmoric[sic] Member of the OOTP Boards (It's not OOTP; it's your computer) 15 GB Webhosting for $6.95 a month IMO we are best off abandoning that sinking ship that is Off Topic to the rats infesting it and just starting a whole new Baseball Forum from scratch.

04-03-2004, 05:20 PM	#3
merlin9761 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: seattle(NYC native) Posts: 77	i like that idea alot about more coach and manager options.I think that would add another cool aspect to the game. __________________ "If you don't know where you are going,you will wind up someplace else" - Yogi Berra

06-20-2004, 04:51 AM	#10
Dogzilla Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Colorado USA Posts: 421	Internal Utilities I would like to see internal support for swapping teams/players between leagues. I have 2 leagues where teams are promoted/relegated ala European soccer and need to move teams/players back and forth. I use the external utility now, but it is buggy and clumsy. Something like the "edit league structure" screen but with the ability to open 2 leagues at once.

06-21-2004, 06:48 PM	#13
UngratefulDead Banned Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 3,415	Draft Picks Actually, in real life, trading of draft picks is rather common..

04-03-2004, 06:09 PM	#4
bosunmate All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 1,717	Your right Draftdodger I have just started recently turning coaches off also when I play. I found it to be a real pain especially if I had no money for coaches and scouts. I find it better without.

04-03-2004, 06:12 PM	#5
sadangelclown Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 127	"I found it to be a real pain especially if I had no money for coaches and scouts." I think the coaching system is great because it adds that extra challenge and realism.

04-03-2004, 06:47 PM	#7
WashingtonState Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 13	Other features: Being able to sign some players out of retirement. This happens often in real-life(Clemens, etc.), and I have had 36 year old mvps retire who would certainly not do so in the majors. It would be neat if some players would say no, but some would say yes...

06-19-2004, 06:42 PM	#8
greyhound06 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 12	Here are a couple of things I would like to see: 1. Different menu options when the game loads. Besides creating a league or continuing a league how about "open league." Its a simple thing to add and i find it very frustrating if I'm switching back and forth between my own league and an online league or two online leagues or something to have to continue league, wait for it to load, then open the league you want and have to wait for the first one to save then load the next one. The game already runs excruciatingly slow and this just adds to it. I especially hate it when I'm having trouble getting something to work ie opening an online league after a sim, when the game starts to crash whenever i do something. It makes a frustrating situation even worse when you have to load and save a league before you can get to the one you want. 2. I saw it mentioned but I'm gonna say it again because I dont even understand how it wasnt in OOTP2 let alone OOTP6...TRADING DRAFT PICKS!!!! 3. I think it would be cool if when you go to view the Top 100 Prospects report it would show according to your scout not a league average scout. That's what I pay the big bucks to the legendary scout for.

06-21-2004, 02:45 PM	#12
Dan Theman Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Cleveland, Ohio Posts: 2,251	You guys might be interested in this idea that I've been floating: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...ad.php?t=62023

06-22-2004, 02:41 AM	#16
UngratefulDead Banned Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 3,415	Heh Okay, you guys are totally right. What I had taken as trading of draft picks was, as you said, free agent compensation. Learn something new every day..