Free MLB Manager Online Baseball Sim Game
 

Sega just launched its free browser management sim MLB Manager Online this week. I just signed up. It works a lot like their old NFL game where you manage a roster and compete against the CPU and other players in seasons and leagues. It seems pretty good so far. My username is samifan24 if anyone's interested.

I've signed up to check it out as well. My username is mrkilla22.

Signing up as well just to see whats up.

In there as Travis

Signed up as well, as dolfin13. Having fun so far, not too bad.

Anybody looking to make any trades? Not sure if trades between friends in game have the same restrictions as world trades (cards must be the same value and have the same remaining contract but don't need to be the same position)

hey brad!

Signed up as SackAttack.

Woo. First pitcher pack I bought had Felix Hernandez in it. Score!

Not sure, but I thought I had read you can't make trades in the Rookie Class.

Nice! I pulled Matt Holiday in my first. Unfortunately, I've come to realize that really good players makes it difficult to squeeze in quality at other positions.

Early on, at least. I'm not sure what prompts the 'point cost' total to grow. Progression, maybe?

S'ok. I'm willing to play around with having King Felix in the rotation for a while and see how the impact to my lineup is.

I believe the Total grows as you move up in Class. I'm still looking for the front-end pitcher!

Good to know. Mrkilla just hung 3 on King Felix in the first inning, costing me my exhibition against him, but I managed to knock off Travis.

Have to check it out tonight sounds cool.

In

Texas Rancheros, Tasan as the owner/coach/whatever

Looks like the bullpen is the choke point. Even a 'basic' offense can put up enough runs to win, but if your back end sucks, it doesn't matter how good your ace is (in exhibition MLB mode, at least).

Last night I traded Orlando Hudson for Billy Butler. You just offer a player up and which players you want back and if someone else has the same, the trade automatically goes through.

I have a team. In as PilotMan, and the team is Shiner Bock.

I'm a little disappointed at the enforced cap so early in the game given the quality of players I've been able to amass simply from completing the tutorial.

I get the idea behind it and increasing the overall team level as you progress, but they've either dummied down the player point system too much, or over restricted who you can use early on.

Just kind of sucks to see 1/2 to 2/3 of my best players having to be on the bench simply because I can't afford to have them in the lineup. If it was a case of only having 1-2 solid/star players on my roster and then flesh it out otherwise it wouldn't feel quite as odd.

We'll see what the point limit looks like after the tutorial. I suspect the quality of early acquisitions is to get people to keep coming back early on so that they can get those players into the lineup, whereas if there weren't 'name' cards dropping in, you might get some attrition in the first few days with people going "I haven't got time for this."

Here's the info for Team Cost

http://www.mlbmanageronline.com/en/p...gameflow/#cost

Though might be a little dated as the current Cost is 67 rather then the 59 it shows here.

and...

The Rookie Class for World US 101 will be promoted to A Class on Saturday March 5th at 11pm.

Gah, just looking through the help files and saw this for point limits:

League: Yr 1 Limit, Yr 2 Limit, Yr 3 Limit
Rookie: 59, 59, 59
A: 71, 91, 111
AA: 81, 101, 121
AAA: 91, 111, 131
MLB: 101, 121, 141

My current limit is 67, so I'd have to cut 8 points for the start of the season if this is correct.

And year 2 of MLB is only 10 points higher than year 3 of A ball? A year 3 AA team is the equivalent of a year 2 MLB squad?

I'm hoping this does get some tweaking as it looks like it has a good base to build off, I'm just confused by how they're implementing the cap. Granted, it's quite early so training and stuff will likely end up playing a huge roll, as will the contract cycles (seems like the default is 2 years for a player). Next up I'm curious to see what happens at the end of a contract and if there is any way to retain a player.

I'm not entirely clear on it myself. I was just looking that info up.

Did you notice the promotion/relegation system? :D

Looks like players simply leave your squad after 2 seasons.

Also interesting, if you do scouting and get a player you already have on your team, you don't get a second card of that player, instead the player you have gets improved condition (had this happen with Juan Rivera).

The promotion system is a cool idea, just not sure how effective it really is when you're only talking a difference of 10 points for your cap. Granted that'd be one awfully good player or 2-3 minor upgrades, but not a huge overhaul.

Looking at it more, it's really too bad that it seems like you can only use a card for 2 seasons before it's gone. It'd be nice if you could "resign" a card (maybe at a slightly higher use cost?).

I wonder how that affects the team 'collection' bonuses if the player leaves your squad.

Wonder how much the game will be overwhelmed by those willing to pay for the "bonus" cards that improve your players.

Can you pay with actual money? If it's only using in game currency that you have to earn through activities, well, should somewhat balance itself in the sense that any money you pay there is money you can't use to scout for other players.

And from any training I've done with guys so far, it's not like the gains are huge. On a 100 point system they've got 3 upgrade slots (looks like they can have up to 5 but you have to activate the final 2 spots) and the upgrades are 1-2 points for level 1, 2-4 points (I think, could be 2-3) for level 2, and 3-4 points (again, just going off memory) for slot 3.

Given that you're only upgrading one stat for each of those drills (at least with any I've seen so far), it shouldn't dramatically alter anything. Never mind the randomness of each drill and the chance that you can flat out waste a card.

If you're referring to something other than training or support cards, well, sorry for the above ;)

Team name is Heart Attacks

Added myself. Team name is Bashers

Just added myself. Team name Insomniacs

added myself as well. Team is known as the Klein Bottles

Wow played a couple games and this darn thing is a bit addicting.

This is going to kill my work productivity.

Great bonuses to defeat MLB teams.

500 per team.
1,000 bonus for each division you clean out.
2,000 bonus for getting the same division in each league (ie: once you beat the NL and AL East teams).
3,000 bonus when you beat the entire league.
10,000 bonus for beating every team in the Majors.

So a tidy 43,000 points or so once you get through them all.

Signed up as the Chesapeake Blue Crabs last night from home, but can't seem to get it to load away from there. Too bad...I was looking for a little lunchtime amusement.

I'm running at about a 75% failure rate on training cards today. I guess I'm a bad guesser.

Does anybody know the significance of hometown development?

Your hometown will develop based on game progress. You can acquire rewards such as Training Cards and Support Cards based on your hometown development.
Just as your Commercial district will develop when you purchase a Training Card, your game progress will determine the area of your hometown development. Please note that your hometown will reset every 5 cycles (6 cycles for your first play).

Yep. And since you can just keep playing until you win, sufficient hardheadedness (and perhaps a little luck in pitcher pulls) can get you through that in a couple hours.

I just won my first game after 15 or tries. Apparently we're still not very good. :)

This game is like crack

Training sucked today. WHat a waste.

I'm a little grumpy that I didn't get a team cost boost today after getting one yesterday. I was looking forward to that extra point darnit.

The Elder Dragon Legends unfortunately suck, even against fellow rookie teams.

Screwed up the registration thing apparently, so I'm in as
User: Athens Diamond Cutters
Team: Diamond Cutters

The Green Bay Bullfrogs have a 21-9 record in rookie play so far. Bring on A league.

I have beaten 5 pro teams and 2 dream teams so far. Our record has bounced around a bit, but we are on an up swing right now.

I've finished MLB and the dream teams. Waiting for my next MLB cycle to roll around so I can earn some more points.

Glad some of you have this figured out, I suck (although I did get a shutout from Medlin vs SA :) )

Man, just wait 'til I throw King Felix at you. I'll get mine back.

I'm still down in the rookie league but I did have Volstad throw a no-no two games ago, which was kind of cool. I also screwed up my signup so my team name and player name are the same: BoilerUp

Alright, I am up to 16 pro teams and all but 1 dream team beaten. Sack, you're just riding King Felix's arm. I am trying to do with the fearsome Anibal Sanchez.

Wow at least I am not the only dork that signed up with the same team name and player name.

I can't wait until I have enough team points to ride King Felix's arm and Jose Bautista's bat. Just counting the days.

Well my team has advanced to the next level, not that I really know what that means other than the fact that I have a whole lot more points to spend.

It means I get to ride King Felix's arm and Jose Bautista's bat. Whee!

Oh, and apparently the friend's list cap is 10 people. I'm full, now.

Oh, now we get into the fun part.

My opening day roster:

Cabrera (SS)
Granderson (CF)
Uggla (DH)
Rivera (LF)
Encarnacion (3B)
Hudson (2B)
Stubbs (RF)
Davis (1B)
Santana (C)

On the mound it's a rotation of Latos, Morrow, Vargas, Niemann and Maholm. Kerry Wood to set up Howell and hopefully not a lot of stressful late inning situations :D

Going to try and ride defense, team speed and pitching this season. Very curious to see if it works out.

I can't login due to a server error this morning.

Well, I have had a major roster makeover, but we still lack a dominating front line pitcher, but overall we are very well balanced.

I'm 3-0 in Single A thus far, hoping to keep that alive. I did beat all the levels of vs. CPU teams, so that was a huge points boost. I too am lacking a front line pitcher but am still solid anyway.

Finally got a solid pitcher with Justin Verlander. I also now have a pretty decent 1-4 in pitchers. I am wondering if I really need to go that deep in the rotation or not. I have a very good setup guy and just an average closer. As for hitters I recently got Jimmy Rollins. Not the best but still a decent hitter. Picked up C Brian McCann last night who is a 7 but is not all that much better than Ramon Hernandez who is a 5.

User: SP Lumber Comp.
Team: SP Lumber Comp.
__________________

What's the consensus on how to use your points? Burn 'em early? Save some?

San Jose Smashers have been formed...kingfc22

I'm up to 6-0 in Class A and face the other undefeated team in my world next. He is pretty stacked though and it looks like it'll be my first loss as my highest point player is a 7. He has three 9's that I'm facing in Longoria, Fielder, and his starting pitcher Jimenez.

As for when to spend points, I blew a ton early because I didn't know any better. I then had to grind through the MLB, Sega, and Legend teams to get points back, which took some time. It took time but I got a good amount of points for beating them all.

For those sending friend requests, sorry if I don't respond right away. They've got a cap of 10 friends right now so I'm keeping them in the inbox (assuming they don't expire at some point) for when that cap is increased.

I can't speak to a consensus, but I can tell you that what I did was buy a few packs early, defeat the MLB, buy a few more packs, and then use my earnings from ranked matches and league games to build the bankroll back up. I'm sitting around 35k points right now with around 120 players on my total roster.

I'm killing with speed in this game. Have double the number of steals of any other team in my league. The runners in this game aren't held on second on grounders to the left side, so a leadoff hit followed by a steal can put you in great position for a run. Really starts to add up in a hurry. Only one 7 on offense with the rest 6 or lower. I couple all that speed with starters rated 10, 8, 8, 6, and 6. Setup man is 5 and closer is a 7. Trained all pitchers to their strengths rather than working on their weaknesses.

+1. Hope they do so.

Dola,

Friends list is full, so while I'd love to have all of you on my friends list, those of you adding me currently are going to sit in my inbox in the hopes that the list cap gets an expansion.

Ok. I can't figure out how to get a scouted player onto my roster.

I searched the FAQ's but I'm obviously missing something.

Help!!! :)

Just kidding. I guess I should just finish the tutorial :D:p

Click the name of the player on the active roster you want to replace with your scouted player, click the 'replace' button at the bottom of that screen, choose the player you want to add to the active roster, and then hit 'update' at the bottom of the screen after the swap.

Were in the same pool! I just beat you 13-11!

Something I've been thinking about over the past couple of hours.

1) The "Sega" team in my A league is 9-0. I suspect that team is going to end up winning at least 120 of the 150 games they'll play, if not more, and I suspect that's true of most A leagues. So even though there are four promotion spots, three humans is probably the most likely promotion scenario.

2) We're in the 3rd season of the cycle right now, which means that next season, everybody's team cost cap is going to drop. It may, therefore, be in your best interest to spend points on putting the strongest team you can out there *now*, with an eye toward promotion. That way, even though you'll be at your lowest cap of the cycle next season, it will be higher by virtue of being the lowest AA cap instead of the lowest A cap. That will result in less of a hit to the quality of your team.

Without that promotion, good players that you've been acquiring will likely not be usable in the next season, and I'm still unsure whether these contracts are for two seasons or two cycles. If seasons, those unusable players would disappear before you ever got the cap space back to use them again.

Just some long-term strategy thought.

The little screen at the beginning of the new season last night seemed pretty clear (I thought) that the contracts rolled over on the change of cycles.

Which still kind of confuses me since basically everyone we have will expire at the same time ... which maybe isn't confusing since it's their way of making sure that you have to keep buying players next cycle (and microtransactions have to be where this is all leading).

From the reading I've done, I believe the contracts are cycles and not seasons, but that is just my opinion at this point and probably me hoping for the best ;)

Anybody looking to trade? I'm in the market for corner infielders (preferably with high defense ratings) and potentially a closer. I think I'm around 110 players or so right now so depending on what you're looking for, we may be able to work something out.

I'm trying out the world trade route, but I'm already 0-2 going that way.

Finished off the rest of the exhibition games and dream teams today. We aren't off to a great start, but we are in the upper half of our division.

Well, by the time they expire and leave the team, you'll have gotten at least one new crop in of players with a full two cycles, so you'll have some guys with 2 cycles and some guys with 1. It keeps you invested in the game.

I don't think it'll go fully microtransactions, but I could see something like the Madden Facebook game where you can spend real money right away for a pack, or save for some period of time to buy it with in-game currency, and possibly have an 'elite' pack only purchaseable with real money.

The new cycle started this morning and it really opened things up on my roster. I went from 68 points to 110 points overnight. Now I can field an actual lineup of MLB stars rather than a couple of good players and some scrubs to fill out the lineup. I guess everyone's roster increases when you join an "A" league?

Yep, looks like that. But it'll go back down sharply at the end of this season when we play season one of cycle 2 (assuming you don't promote up to AA).

Which, knock wood, I'm on track for. 10-4 with one game left in the first day, four games behind SEGA 0045 for first place.

Undefeated assholes.

11-4 finish to the first day, and Team Sega actually lost a game, so we're 3 games out of first now.

Tried to win with a bunch of hitters but that didn't work.

Downgraded my lineup a bit and improved my starters. Went 3-1 to finish the day after losing a bunch earlier.

Anybody interested in comparing notes on what training combinations have resulted in new skills?

11-4 in 3rd place, thanks to a 9 game winning streak ... one of 5 teams with an 11-4 record, all of us trailing a 12-3
Zach Duke is 3-0, 1.50 as my #5 starter
Paul Konerko leads the league with HR, he's also my RBI leader with 20
Morneau has a 1.251 OBP,Nolan Reimold a 1.094

So I'm hanging in there pretty good, won my first game of the day, still in that logjam for 2nd. Bought the random packs for both scouting & training, figure I'm doing okay so far. I'm at the salary cap, figure I'll spend mostly on training as the day goes along, but I can't resist doing the occasional random scouting thing, grab a random fielder ... 1B Joey Votto 10*

To join a team that already has Konerko at 1b, Morneau at DH, and is second in the league in HR.

11-6 and in 5th place, 7-3 in our last 10 games. ...first place has 2 teams at 13-4.

Octavio Dotel leads the team in wins and tied for #2 in the league with a 3-0 record out of the pen, but his 6.10 ERA isn't helping.

Ian Kennedy is 0-0 but has a #2 in the league, 1.35 ERA in three games, Ricky Nolasco is 2-0 with a 1.96 ERA. Nolasco has 20 K's in 18 innings. Heath Bell is 7 of 7 in saves with a 1.42 ERA.

Our hitters are struggling but we need them to come around soon. Jason Werth (.263-3-9, 5 SB (tied for 5th)), Hideki Matsui (.281-4-14), Ryan Sweeney (.323-4-8) and Casey Blake (.296-4-5) lead the team.

My scouting today was a complete waste. The best player I was able to grab out of 3 complete stacks was *6 Jose Reyes.

This is just the training from my main roster, but you get the idea.

HITTERS

Run/Run/Fielding = Leadoff man (+2run/+1Fd)

Clutch/Contact/Contact = Discerning Eye (+2Ct/+1Cl)

Power/Cl/Pw = Blisterd Bat (+2pw/+Cl)

Pw/Pw/Ct = Splash Hit (+2Pw/+1ct)

Ct/Pw/PW = Splash Hit

Cl/Ct/Cl = Scratch Hit (+2cl/+1Ct)

Thr/Ct/Ct = Spray Hit (+2Ct/+Thr)

Pw/Ct/Ct = Igniter (+2Ct/+1Pw)

Ct/Cl/Cl = Discerning Eye

Thr/Thr/Fd = Stonewall (+2Thr/+1 Fd)

Cl/Pw/Ct = Nada

Cl/Thr/Ct/ = Nada

Fd/Thr/Fd = Wizard (+2Fd/+1 Th)

PITCHING

Speed/Speed/Speed = Nada

Cl/Sp/Cl = Out Pitch (+2Cl/+1 Sp)

Control/Break/Break = Jelly Legs (+2Bk/+1Ct)

Sp/Sp/Sp = Nada

Ct/Ct/Ct = Nada

Cl/Br/Br = Yacker (+2Bk/+1Cl)

Stamina/Ct/Ct = Pitchers Pitch (+2Ct/+1St)

Cl/Cl/Co = Cool Head (+2Cl/+1 Ct)

A few more for the training thing
Clutch+Clutch+Fielding = "Boost" (+2 Cl, +1 Fd)
Clutch+Power+Clutch = "El Toro" (+2 Cl, +1 Pw)

Speed+Speed+Stamina = "Thunderbolt" (+2 Sp, +1 St)
Speed+Speed+Clutch = "Whiff" (+2 Sp, +1 Cl)
Control+Speed+Control = "Freeze the Hitter" (+2 Ct, +1 Sp)
Stamina+Speed+Stamina = "Pitching Machine" (+2 St, +1 Sp)

Looks as though the magic is Any 2 + Any 1 = Boost

I like this game quite a bit for a couple reasons.

1. Although it's not interactive, the game display reminds me a lot of MicroLeague Baseball from when I was a kid.

2. The game allows you to be as active (or inactive) as you like.

3. It feels like fantasy baseball, except you get 15 game results a day which increases the interest IMO.

+1

Would also add, at least to this point it doesn't seem to be one of those "free" games where you still need to pay real money to have a shot at being one of the best teams.

That said, I'm nowhere close to understanding how their batting order synergy works. That part feels like a complete crapshoot and re-order until you get the best combo rather than taking into account hitter types and handedness. More often than not it says my lineup is at it's best when all my righties and lefties are grouped together, even if it means my worst hitters aren't as close to the bottom as they likely should be.

I just racked up 1828 points in my last game. Wow! A 13-0 beatdown of the last place team in my division.

I'm currently tied with the Sega team for the 4th spot in my division.

Man, you've pulled more of those than I have. Your list encompasses all of the ones I've seen.

The one in my division is 21-2 and running away with things.

I'm still in 3rd, but I've dropped a bit thanks to a bullpen that lost a couple late leads. Sitting 16-7 at the moment.

A 2-out seeing eye single to right by Howie Kendrick cost Kris Medlin (3-0) a no-hitter for me today. So close, he finishes with a 1-hit shutout to keep us tied for 1st.

FWIW, Team Sega is 16-7, two games back in 4th place.

In addition to those above:

Pitchers
Ct, Ct, Bk = Crafty (Ct+2, Bk+1)

Sega is currently 18-5 in my league, good for a 1 game lead in the division. 4 teams are a game back with 2 teams (including myself) 3 back at 15-8. 8th place is 14-9 then there's a big drop to 9th at 11-12 and 10th is only 9-14.