MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

[Jeffrey Smith]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

Better trade logic. Too often a first place team trades away their best player for a prospect.
More accurate salaries. Players like Ryan Howard or A-Rod should be virtually untradeable because of inflated salaries and deflated production.
Better manager models. eg. John Gibbons and John Farrell look nothing close to the real men.

[LashtonBryth]

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Stats need to be taken more seriously. When I start a new franchise, I should be given the option to wipe all historical records clean and start my league from zero or import historical stats for the league. I should be able to see where my shortstop ranks on the single season list of doubles in my franchise's history, the league history, or my user history. A small deal should be made on screen when I approach or break personal, team, or league records for a game, season, career, etc. I should be able to view another user on my friends list that plays MLB the show and see what his best RTTS AAA average is for a single season or a career. You guys should be doing so much more than you are in this area.

[MauerMorneau09]

Re: MLB 15 The Show Wishlist, Ours and Yours

Manager Of The Year Awards!!

Minor league players of the year awards

come back player of the year awards

I'd also enjoy Weekly and Monthly awards like 2k does.

[Black59Razr]

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I'll just bring up one issue. Because, if you can fix this, it will be such a huge game changer, that nothing else will really matter, because you may have to re-think everything else. What is that one issue, you ask? It's an issue I have brought up several times over the years, but has still yet to be addressed. And that issue is outfielder ability. If you could ever edit their ability to catch so many balls hit in the air, you could, in turn, lower the amount of balls in play to a more realistic amount. You could lower the amount of hard hit balls to a more realistic amount. Who knows what else would happen once you put outfielders in the game with realistic skill sets. Look at the statistics of Total Zone Runs or Defensive WAR in regards to OF. Those stats reward how much ground you cover. It's not about speed. Speed, in The Show, is all you need to cover ground.


In The Show, every outfielder is Neo from the Matrix. The second the ball leaves the bat, they are already moving in the right direction. Yes, there are canned animations of outfielders taking a wrong first step. That happens 1 out of 100 times though. It needs to happen more often. Also, it needs to be tied into their ability in the outfield. If I put a catcher in the OF, he needs to make a bad read a very high percentage of the time. Plus, on line drives right at the OF, the OF should be freezing or taking a step back almost every single time. I feel like a broken record when I say this, but look at the top OF plays of any given year. Then, look at the routes those OF's take. You will see that they are far from perfect.

In The Show, 100% of the routes OF's take to a ball, regardless of skill, are the best route to a ball you will ever see in your life.

Why does Bruce Bochy take Michael Morse out of LF in the 8th inning in put in Gregor Blanco? In The Show, you would never do that. Reason being, once a hard hit ball is hit into LF in The Show, the last thing you think about it, who is in LF? I hope they can get to that ball.

Here is an article about what I am talking about. I pulled this from the article:

"Even with Gregor Blanco around to replace Morse in the late innings, [Morse's] defense was so poor this season that it has even arguably overshadowed his offensive production."

That statement has no truth in the world of The Show.

Check out this video as an example. That was literally the first video I viewed on mlb.com. I could find you a thousand more if you like.

No player in the last 25 years, with the exception of Andrew Jones, had the ability to run, in a perfect line, to the majority of flyballs. Yet, in The Show, I can create a player with an OF ability of zero, and he'll do it 100% of the time.

I ask you to sit down and have a meeting about this. Show this video and all the OFs flaws. Then, listen to the audio, and how much the announcers praise the play. Watch that video again and count how many mis-steps he makes.

His jump is later than any jump ever seen in The Show. His first step is in the wrong direction, never before seen on The Show. He corrects his route, but it's still not perfect. Again, never before seen on The Show. Then, when he makes the catch, he is still out of perfect position. AND THAT WAS AN AMAZING PLAY!

The Show's routine outfield plays put real life amazing plays to shame. I'm no programmer, and I've heard it before, that this is the hardest thing to re-create in a game; imperfections. How do you tell a program, that knows exactly what to do, to do it in an imperfect manner. I'm not sure how that can get accomplished. But what I do know is, once you get player's to run imperfect routes, based on a 1-100 skill level, then, you will start seeing a difference in how many putouts one outfielder can make compared to another outfielder. Then, the user will have to start making decisions based on an outfielders offensive AND defensive ability. Now, you did overcome this with infielders. A few years ago, defense didn't matter for any player. Now, the 2B, 3B and SS defensive ability is important. 1B range and C ability are still non factors, but that's for a different post. Let's first get these OF's straightened out.

I know you guys are listening. A few years back, I used to always complain about the bunting system. How hard it was to see the ball. There were a couple years where I suggested using a see-through, Mike Tyson's punch out, style of batter. And you did it. Great job! Now, take this free consultation, and go make it into a better product as well.

[robjoye10]

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The thing that I had always wanted is "supposedly" finally in the game, which is the name brand cleats, gloves, and batting gloves. Here are a few things I would like to see:

1.) CREATE A STADIUM: It gets old playing in the same old stadium year in and year out. I was so excited to finally have Marlins Park last year just because it was something new. If you give us create a stadium then we can make a new one every time we get tired of the same ones. It doesn't seem like that could be that hard to include.

2.) FRANCHISE RELOCATION: Take a page out of Maddens book with the relocation settings. Let the developers put in the available cities and logos and either let us create our uniforms, or even create a set of uniforms to choose from for each city like Madden does. If this was a option also include the ability to upload a logo. It would make the game so much more interesting and probably would increase sales just from the standpoint of people who may not necessarily like baseball may love the game just because of the custimization abilities.

3.) REVAMP ROAD TO THE SHOW MODE: Nobody does career mode like 2k does in NBA 2K15. The cut scenes they use to show the interactions between player, coaches, and front office members. Impliment something like that in the Road To The Show mode. Allow players to be able to earn coins and buy clothes and accessories like 2K15.

The game is basically the same year in and year out with the graphics being the only difference. It needs a change and some revamping in some areas and it could make a world of difference for this game.

[BravesBoy]

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Im just hoping Diamond Dynasty will take some big steps forward. I personally do not enjoy the current structure it has and i feel this mode could be so much more and could really be a mode i spend time with if it has the aspects i hope for.

[countryboy]

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There are a lot of great suggestions in this thread.

[TattooedEvil]

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anyone think that we get a relocation or create a stadium/renovate stadium mode this year? Seems like it woulda been one of the first things mentioned to get the long time gamers excited. Anyone else think this?

[thorpedo66]

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I mainly play RTTS. The one thing that has bugged me the last few years is a transaction page. Where it shows trades, send ups and send downs. I would like to know why I'm getting put on the bench maybe for someone struggling sent down and replaces me as the starter or someone sent up making me the starter. I think I remember right and we had this before but I can't remember the last year it was included.

[CubFan23]

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expanded stats
I would like to see the teams the player played for each year as well as being able to see different levels at once. The way it is now you can't see a players stats once you Promote/demote him, you can only see them once he's promoted/demoted back to previous level

team chemistry
Would like to see some sort of chemistry meter that is affected by trading players and free agent signings. If you decide to blow up your team and rebuild by trading away players the bar will drop and will rise once the new players are together for some time, this would be good especially for newly acquired ss or 2b to get a double play combination working smoothly.

And last but not least, more of a defensive penalty for playing guys at a different position

One more, a better league news feature, would like to see headlines or something to that effect showing hot/cold teams, players, streaks, injuries etc..

[DodgerFanatic2K3]

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I miss being able to start a Season or Franchise with rosters/lineups I set without having the computer change them after spring training

It used to be so easy to sim a quick season before they added spring training

[tessl]

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This isn't directed any anybody in particular, just an overall observation. Some people tend to focus on what I would consider the obscure and ignore the obvious depending upon how they play the game.

For example some sabermetrics guys noticed there were too few chased pitches and the devs changed plate discipline to create more chased pitches but in the process created 14 outs and only 1 hit per game on chased pitches resulting in an unrealistic number of low scoring games in manage mode - default sliders. I played a full season and my team was last in every hitting category, first in every pitching category. Pretty obvious runs are too low but rarely does anybody mention that.

Others focus on rosters, uniforms, haircuts, and a long list of other stuff and the developers chase all of that stuff - and release a game where runs are too low.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

By the way, I notice vendors selling food and drinks but I don't see any fans eating or drinking. :-) It would be great if they would fix that.

Oh, and I see dust when a ball is in play and fielders or base runners kick up some dust but I don't see any dust from wind. It would be great if they would fix that too. :-)

And, the base coaches never give any signs to the batter or base runners. It would be great if they would fix that. :-)

Just kidding - it is a good game, run totals need to be fixed. If not then the lack of butterflies and birds in the game would be a great addition. :-)

[Scooter3]

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I hate to beat a dead horse but my wishlist:

a) rosters to be carried over same as franchise

b) edit names of coaches, managers & umps

c) season to be customized to reduce teams to 26, or 24, or 16, or whatever one chooses

d) custom schedules, get rid of interleague play, choice of 154 game schedule & 162 games

e) editable contracts on money & length, though I have read somewhere MLB doesn't want that.

f) ability to move teams back to original cities.

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These are great choices. I sat 2014 out but this would give me motivation.

[55]

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Career stat tracking is a MUST.

If I'm in year 2019 of my Franchise Mode and I want to know how many doubles Evan Longoria had in 2016, I should be able to find out in 2-3 simple clicks. That's been my one major gripe with this game since it first came out. The complete lack of stat tracking from year to year is inexcusable.

Other than that, I'd like to be able to edit contracts as well as hot/cold zones. Those aren't deal breakers like the stat tracking is, but it would sure be nice.

[Flaxseed Oil]

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• Revamped pitching animations
• Stat tracking for every player, including their minor league stats and what teams they were on. If I trade for a player in July, I want to see his stats with only my team, as well.
• More than 1 uniform template, so some teams dont have numbers so low on their backs - I.E. Yankees and Red Sox.
• The ability to draft players and immediately put them in the minors, rather than wait until the next season.