Baseball Mogul 2006 Preview Thread (Yes, Virginia, there ARE lefties and righties!)

[21C]

FWIW I'm close to finishing a utility for Baseball Mogul that allows you to import all of the data from the Standings.txt file into a database and then create some html reports and pictures showing your progress.

Here's a taste:

Team	Wins	Losses	GB	BA	HR	SB	ERA	Lge	Div	Year	Pos
Toronto	75	87	6	.262	195	72	4.47	AL	East	2005	4
Toronto	81	81	12	.271	228	59	4.73	AL	East	2006	4
Toronto	89	74	7	.265	238	53	4.82	AL	East	2007	3
Toronto	85	77	7	.261	229	72	4.42	AL	East	2008	3
Toronto	76	86	23	.253	186	88	4.49	AL	East	2009	4

Not quite an almanac but it's something.

I had also made a utility for BM05 that read the box score files and created a db so you could get player stats between any two dates. I've tested it only on the BM06 demo and it still seems to work. You can check it out here.

[tucker rocky]

Originally Posted by 21c

FWIW I'm close to finishing a utility for Baseball Mogul that allows you to import all of the data from the Standings.txt file into a database and then create some html reports and pictures showing your progress.

Here's a taste:



Not quite an almanac but it's something.

I had also made a utility for BM05 that read the box score files and created a db so you could get player stats between any two dates. I've tested it only on the BM06 demo and it still seems to work. You can check it out here.

Looks good.

[21C]

Originally Posted by 21c

FWIW I'm close to finishing a utility for Baseball Mogul that allows you to import all of the data from the Standings.txt file into a database and then create some html reports and pictures showing your progress.

I've finished my utility. You can read about it here.

You can output the pics based on Wins, Losses,BA, HR, SB and ERA. It might be useful for anyone running a career. Here's some examples.

[st.cronin]

Originally Posted by Dreslough

5) Add 'vs. Lefty' and 'vs. Righty' lineups. You can however change your lineup every day depending on the opposing starter.

I've been playing with the demo, and if this were implemented I would buy it.

[mgadfly]

I just completed my next season in the career I'm playing. Here are the injuries from the transactions page:

Mar 31, 2018 ... P Hand Stress Fracture (two weeks)
Mar 31, 2018 ... P Sprained ankle (two weeks)
Apr 8, ... LF Torn Achilles Tendon (five months)
Apr 13, ... 3B Torn Quadruceps (five weeks)
Apr 17, ... P Finger stress fracture (two weeks)
Apr 18, ... P Dislocated shoulder (three weeks)
Apr 29 ... P Severe elbow tendonitis (four months)
May 4 ... CF Wrist stress fracture (four weeks)
May 8 ... P Broken wrist (eight months)
May 8 ... P Spiked achilles tendon (three weeks)
May 10 ... 3B Hairline wrist break (two weeks)
Jun 6 ... 3B Ankle stress fracture (three weeks)
Jun 9 ... C Pulled Groin (two weeks)
Jun 19 ... P Broken wrist (eight months)
Jun 27 ... LF Sprained Finger (two weeks)
Jun 29 ... P Ruptured knee ligaments (five weeks)
Jul 15 ... 2B Fractured hip (four months)
Jul 18 ... 1B Wrist stress fracture (four weeks)
Jul 27 ... 1B Broken jaw (four weeks)
Aug 3 ... P Severe elbow tendonitis (four months)
Aug 5 ... 3B Broken Collar bone (five weeks)
Aug 12 ... 1B Sprained neck (two weeks)
Aug 23 ... 2B pulled groin (two weeks)
Sep 15 ... 3B ruptured knee ligaments (five weeks)

This is on the lowest level for injuries with the #1 medical staff in the league. Once again, I'm not saying 25 major injuries per season isn't realistic. I don't know. What I am saying is that it isn't much fun and the slider should be set with 0% equalling "realism". +100% equalling double the amount of injuries and -100% resulting in no injuries. That way if we set it to say -80% we can have 5-10 major injuries per season to deal with.

[mgadfly]

2019 Major injuries (once again, lowest level injuries, best medical staff)

Mar 31 Ankle stress fracture (2 wks)
Mar 31 Hand stress fracture (2 wks)
Mar 31 Ankle stress fracture (3 wks)
Mar 31 Pulled groin (2 wks)
Mar 31 Finger stress fracture (2 wks)
Apr 13 Sprained neck (2 wks)
Apr 22 Hairline wrist break (2 wks)
May 8 Mild shoulder separation (2 wks)
May 11 Wrist stress fracture (5 wks)
May 16 Broken Fibula (3 Mos)
May 17 shoulder separation (4 wks)
May 19 Chipped knee cap (3 wks)
May 28 Stretched ankle ligament (2 wks)
Jun 27 Fractured finger (4 wks)
Jun 27 Chipped knee cap (3 wks)
Jun 28 Ruptured knee ligaments (5 wks)
Jul 22 Severe elbow tendonitis (3 mos)
Jul 27 Fractured hip (4 mos)
Aug 5 Broken collar bone (4 wks)
Aug 15 Sprained thumb (2 wks)
Aug 17 Broken Fibula (4 mos)
Aug 17 Wrist stress fracture (4 wks)
Aug 20 Ruptured cevical disc (2 mos)
Aug 28 Torn rotator cuff (11 mos)
Sep 19 Fractured hip (3 mos)
Sep 22 Broken wrist (8 mos)
Sep 30 Dislocated hip (5 wks)

[Galaril]

Yay it still looks like their are major issues with free agency and injuries along with the terrible trade offers you get from the cpu. I am getting a little impatient with the free agency and injuries since they were suppose to of been dealt with in a few patches now.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by Galaril

Yay it still looks like their are major issues with free agency and injuries along with the terrible trade offers you get from the cpu. I am getting a little impatient with the free agency and injuries since they were suppose to of been dealt with in a few patches now.

yep

if they fix the free agency, injuries, cpu trade offers than i might consider to buy BM 2k6.

but for now i will wait and see if they fix those issues. If they do it should be very solid game to purchase.

[Galaril]

Anyone here anything more on this game their board is dead other than complaints about the games bugs and problems. Anyone here from Clay?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Galaril

their board is dead other than complaints about the games bugs and problems

I guess you don't count the patch that Clay posted, oh, 8 or 10 hours ago.


You might be the most negative and unproductive poster I've ever seen. I'll give you credit, though. You never have let the facts get in the way of your ranting.

[Galaril]

Sorry SkyDog I just got out of work and didn't notice the last patch. I will ignore the rest of your insult. Have a nice day.

[Bee]

SD,

Does the new patch address the injury bug that you found in you dynasty?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Bee

SD,

Does the new patch address the injury bug that you found in you dynasty?

I'm not sure. It is purported to "fix injuries," but I haven't tested it out too much yet. It is an unofficial patch, and has at least one problem (transactions other than trades aren't being listed).

[mgadfly]

SD, have you had an opportunity to run some tests with v8.10? My player cards (the stats when you click on a player) are not updating when I manage a team. However, they are updating when I fast sim multiple seasons. I was wondering if you could check to see if you can duplicate this problem, or whether it is working for you?

Thanks

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by mgadfly

SD, have you had an opportunity to run some tests with v8.10? My player cards (the stats when you click on a player) are not updating when I manage a team. However, they are updating when I fast sim multiple seasons. I was wondering if you could check to see if you can duplicate this problem, or whether it is working for you?

Thanks

Heh. You may have just solved something that had been confusing me, and that I was trying to give the proper feedback to Clay about. The perception up to now was that seasons were updating for some people, and not for others. This is much more concrete. Passing along to Clay. Thanks!

[mgadfly]

Thanks SD, I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing it, and hopefully it helps Clay squash it.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by mgadfly

Thanks SD, I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing it, and hopefully it helps Clay squash it.

I hope so too, because this thing is getting really close, I think.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

I hope so too, because this thing is getting really close, I think.

That great News to hear.

[Ben E Lou]

Actually, once a patch fixing the "no year-to-year stats being recorded" bug that cropped up in 8.10 is issued, I'll be good to go. From some suggestions on the SportsMogul forums, I moved Salary Demands to -20%, and League Revenue to +10%, and voila: there are no FA's rated 75 or better available on April 1st. Knocking salaries down a little isn't a big problem for me: there are still 20 players making more than $10M, max salary is $16.4M currently, a few other data points on salaries at -20%:

Top Starter: $15.2M
Salary Range of All MLB Closers: $1.5M-->$8.00M (only 3 making less than $2M, 10 making less than $3M)
Setup Man Salary Range: $316K-->$5M (only 2 are making $316K, then it jumps up to $1M...only 9 total making less than $2M)

I can handle those numbers.

[Bee]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Actually, once a patch fixing the "no year-to-year stats being recorded" bug that cropped up in 8.10, I'll be good to go. From some suggestions on the SportsMogul forums, I moved Salary Demands to -20%, and League Revenue to +10%, and voila: there are no FA's rated 75 or better available on April 1st. Knocking salaries down a little isn't a big problem for me: there are still 20 players making more than $10M, max salary is $16.4M currently, a few other data points on salaries at -20%:

Top Starter: $15.2M
Salary Range of All MLB Closers: $1.5M-->$8.00M (only 3 making less than $2M, 10 making less than $3M)
Setup Man Salary Range: $316K-->$5M (only 2 are making $316K, then it jumps up to $1M...only 9 total making less than $2M)

I can handle those numbers.

That's great info! Thanks SD, I look forward to spending some time with the game this weekend with the wife out of town.

[MizzouRah]

Yes indeed Skydog!


Thanks,

Todd

[HomerJSimpson]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Actually, once a patch fixing the "no year-to-year stats being recorded" bug that cropped up in 8.10 is issued, I'll be good to go. From some suggestions on the SportsMogul forums, I moved Salary Demands to -20%, and League Revenue to +10%, and voila: there are no FA's rated 75 or better available on April 1st. Knocking salaries down a little isn't a big problem for me: there are still 20 players making more than $10M, max salary is $16.4M currently, a few other data points on salaries at -20%:

Top Starter: $15.2M
Salary Range of All MLB Closers: $1.5M-->$8.00M (only 3 making less than $2M, 10 making less than $3M)
Setup Man Salary Range: $316K-->$5M (only 2 are making $316K, then it jumps up to $1M...only 9 total making less than $2M)

I can handle those numbers.

Where do you "fix" this stuff?

[amdaily]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Knocking salaries down a little isn't a big problem for me: there are still 20 players making more than $10M

There are currently 43 MLB players making more than $10 million per season: http://www.onestopbaseball.com/2005/...ion=Outfielder (you have to manually sort by position)

But from my experience, Mogul team salaries seem to be on the high side. Lowering the salaries 20% should get result in getting the benchwarmers more accurate salaries, but it will be at the expense of accurate star salaries.

I think Clay needs to change the default salaries, making scrubs demand much less while increasing the demands of stars. Then let the user modify the game to their liking form that point with the salary adjuster.

[21C]

Originally Posted by HomerJSimpson

Where do you "fix" this stuff?

Under League > League Editor. It will ask you to turn on Commissioner Mode. From here you can change all of your league settings - like set Women Enter Baseball to 0 to avoid getting any women in future seasons.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by amdaily

There are currently 43 MLB players making more than $10 million per season: http://www.onestopbaseball.com/2005/...ion=Outfielder (you have to manually sort by position)

I couldn't possibly care less.

[HomerJSimpson]

Originally Posted by 21c

Under League > League Editor. It will ask you to turn on Commissioner Mode. From here you can change all of your league settings - like set Women Enter Baseball to 0 to avoid getting any women in future seasons.

Thank you.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Actually, once a patch fixing the "no year-to-year stats being recorded" bug that cropped up in 8.10 is issued, I'll be good to go.

Looks like I'll be playing a little Mogul this weekend.

Clay Dreslough Mr. Blog Registered: Jun 2001 Location: Ashford, Connecticut Posts: 2025	8.10 Fixed the injuries, but I broke the Year-By-Year stats. So I'll be posting 8.11 this afternoon after some testing. __________________ Clay Dreslough Sports Mogul Inc. Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged
04-15-2005 03:56 PM

[Ben E Lou]

Clay Dreslough Mr. Blog Registered: Jun 2001 Location: Ashford, Connecticut Posts: 2025

quote: Originally posted by john99 *Bump* Now that the game has been out awhile - what's your impressions? IMHO, this review is DEAD ON: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sports/b...006/review.html It points out some areas that we still need to work on, but points out that 2K6 is a huge improvement over previous versions. Clay __________________ Clay Dreslough Sports Mogul Inc. Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

04-15-2005 03:57 PM

[jbmagic]

Skydog

any word on this still?

Does the new patch address the injury bug that you found in you dynasty?

[amdaily]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

I couldn't possibly care less.

Well some of us would at least like the simulation financials to resemble their major league counterparts.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by amdaily

Well some of us would at least like the simulation financials to resemble their major league counterparts.

I like them to resemble them, and that's close enough for me. I can easily deal with salaries looking like they are from only 3 or 4 years ago.

[Dreslough]

Originally Posted by mgadfly

What I am saying is that it isn't much fun and the slider should be set with 0% equalling "realism". +100% equalling double the amount of injuries and -100% resulting in no injuries. That way if we set it to say -80% we can have 5-10 major injuries per season to deal with.

The injury slider was broken. I posted a patch (8.100) but it broke some the Scouting Report stats so I'm posting a new patch (8.110) tonight.

Clay

[Ben E Lou]

Mogul 2007 feature poll is up. As I said a lonnnnnnngggg time ago in this thread, Clay obviously makes his decisions on features heavily based on this feature poll. Vote now for your pet features:

http://www.mogulsports.com/vbulletin...threadid=72506

[MizzouRah]

Originally Posted by SkyDog

Mogul 2007 feature poll is up. As I said a lonnnnnnngggg time ago in this thread, Clay obviously makes his decisions on features heavily based on this feature poll. Vote now for your pet features:

http://www.mogulsports.com/vbulletin...threadid=72506

You have to be kidding me, right? Version 2006 hasn't seen an hour of play time from me yet and we're supposed to vote on 2007 options? Sheeeshhh.. maybe EA will let us vote on Madden 2009 features.

[Ben E Lou]

8.11 is now up.

[Coop]

Uh..so the auto updater doesnt work anymore?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by MizzouRah

You have to be kidding me, right? Version 2006 hasn't seen an hour of play time from me yet and we're supposed to vote on 2007 options? Sheeeshhh.. maybe EA will let us vote on Madden 2009 features.

I don't get what the problem is. These obviously aren't features that will be added to 2006, so why wouldn't he ask the community what features they feel like are missing? Actually, considering how many games are set aside after a few weeks/months of playing time, I think it is a good idea. If Arlie asked me what features were needed in TPF right now, or Markus asked me for ideas for OOTP7, I wouldn't be able to help out all that much. Pretty much every single idea I've had in the TCY2 and FOF6 threads has come to me while playing the game, and thinking, "Hey, I wish it did it this way or that way..." When and if Mogul gets tabled for awhile for BBCF, the next Solecismic game, and/or OOTP7, I won't be able to give nearly as good feedback.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Coop

Uh..so the auto updater doesnt work anymore?

It does, but this is an "unofficial" patch. He indicated in his post that another one would be coming up soon--almost sounds like maybe even tonight. He said something along the lines of "I wanted to get the double-injury bug fixed, but the lack of year-to-year stats in 8.10 was unacceptable, so I needed to break for dinner, and wanted to go ahead and post this..."

[Ben E Lou]

Dola....here's the link:

http://www.mogulsports.com/vbulletin...threadid=72507

[Buccaneer]

Trade AI?
AI FA acquisitions?
AI roster and financial management?
Historical seasons and historical players variance?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Trade AI?
AI FA acquisitions?
AI roster and financial management?
Historical seasons and historical players variance?

Look, I just copied and pasted what Clay asked me to copy and paste. If it isn't on there, mention it in the thread.

[Buccaneer]

Ummm.....okay. The questions weren't directed at you, SD. It's just a predictable set of questions for anyone playing this game.

[amdaily]

The trade AI is better than I had first thought.

I'm testing things with a fictional league in the first few seasons and the FA is still awful. A 22 year old 78/100 prospect sitting there on March 1st demanding a measly $2.3 million and no one will touch him. I increased revenue by 10%, but in the short term it doesn't appear to have helped. I'll keep tinkering with the settings though, hopefully find something that is acceptable.

Finances are the same as they have been, nothing in immediate need of fixing.

I don't play historical leagues, so no comment.

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Trade AI?
AI FA acquisitions?
AI roster and financial management?
Historical seasons and historical players variance?

Before SkyDog accuses me of being to negative I will say, that I guess, the AI free agent stuff can be fixed by , as SkyDog noted,adjusting the starting financials. Trades AI offers are still screwed up and I don't know they will be addressed this version. And yes Bucc, I had to say the same thing when I saw the poll at BM's board. It is agreta idea to get feedback and suggestions from folks but it kind of pisses me off. I basically feel like I have paid albeit 20 bucks to beta test this guys product. Granted it is a greta improvement over previous incarnations but.... Well, I have hope for this game down the road when it gets patched but up to know it has gotten much serious play.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by amdaily

A 22 year old 78/100 prospect sitting there on March 1st demanding a measly $2.3 million and no one will touch him.

Are you saying that his peak rating is 100? If so, that's frightening. How did he get released in the first place?

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Ummm.....okay. The questions weren't directed at you, SD. It's just a predictable set of questions for anyone playing this game.

Ah! I thought that, since it was right after the link to the poll (and those things weren't in the poll) that you were complaining (yes, you complain a lot) that they weren't in there.

[Ben E Lou]

I've been away for the last hour and a half or so and only got to quickly tinker with 8.11 before I left. How do injuries look in the regular season? I noticed that they were low in Spring Training. Only around a dozen guys in the entire baseball universe came out of spring training injured at default settings. However, that's probably closer to what the masses want. {Sigh}

[MizzouRah]

I just don't think a product that was not released in good shape should have a - next version, what do you want? thread. The feeling I get, "I'm getting close to my last patch for 2006."

Again SD, it's just my opinion.


Todd

[MizzouRah]

dola,

I'm at my parents house tonight due to a 6:30am soccer game (fun to get my 9 year old up at 5:30am and try to get her motivated to play soccer)

Tomorrow, I'll give the lastest patch a run and post some thoughts... although that darn EHM 2005 demo has been tearing me away from everything.

Todd

[rjolley]

Wait, they scheduled a soccer game for 9 year olds at 6:30am? That's crazy...