2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

[Willard76]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

I definitely will want to add the following players:

- Kris Bryant, 3B Cubs (may use him on the Cub's bench based on his status with the team)
- Yasmany Tomas, 3B Diamondbacks
- Jung Ho Kang, SS Pirates

plus four more recommendations which appear worthy of also adding:

- Devon Travis, 2B Blue Jays
- Miguel Castro, RP Blue Jays
- Raisel Iglesias, SP Reds
- Micah Johnson. 2B White Sox

But ... Travis and Castro are not in my 2015 modified OSFM roster set at all and Iglesias is only a 55 (seems pretty low for a potential 5th man in the Red's rotation) and Micah Johnson is 67 (which may be fine). I am not all that worried about the player likeness and for the players in my 2015 modified OSFM rosters, I can just replicate the likenesses they had in that roster set. But are there any "realistic" recommendations for these four other players in terms of their ratings? Are there any other players I could compare them to and use the other player's ratings for these four?

I doubt the OSFM will take us even a month this year and I can guarantee it will be worth the wait this year.

[My993C2]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

I doubt the OSFM will take us even a month this year and I can guarantee it will be worth the wait this year.

Worth the wait for Franchise mode players, yes. Not worth the wait for a Season mode guys like me. Unless the people working on OSFM rosters are modifying player ratings for all major league players (something I was under the impression they do not do), then there is only a handful of players from each team's 40-man rosters that might be effected by the OSFM roster mods. Season mode does not use the full minor league collection of players. It only uses the 40-man roster.

[redsox4evur]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

Worth the wait for Franchise mode players, yes. Not worth the wait for a Season mode guys like me. Unless the people working on OSFM rosters are modifying player ratings for all major league players (something I was under the impression they do not do), then there is only a handful of players from each team's 40-man rosters that might be effected by the OSFM roster mods. Season mode does not use the full minor league collection of players. It only uses the 40-man roster.

The "stock" OSFM doesn't but the hybrid does and that should becoming out around the same time.

[My993C2]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

Hector Olivera needs to actually sign for a real world team before I can put him in my game.

That did not take long. Dodgers signed the Cuba today.

[Unlucky 13]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

I doubt the OSFM will take us even a month this year and I can guarantee it will be worth the wait this year.

I'm tremendously grateful for the OSFM rosters, and use them every year. That's great news.

I'll still be starting a practice franchise of my own on the 31st and redoing all of the contracts myself, along with creating Cubs top players in the minors.

[Bondsfan]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

Not trying to start a mini(good time!) riot....but Ramone posted an interesting tidbit in another thread.

They are exploring the possibility of patching in the ability to import players mid franchise.

NOTHING is promised....but it's being explored.

How friggin' great would THAT be?!!!!

M.K.
Knight165

This is the one and only feature Ive wanted the show to add this year. I reset my franchise over and over everytime a new Giant is called up and added. I cant help myself. I really hope they can patch this in. If not, its at least good to know the dev's recognize this is a problem with the current game. If not a patch, maybe they can get it into next years game.

[Knight165]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

This is the one and only feature Ive wanted the show to add this year. I reset my franchise over and over everytime a new Giant is called up and added. I cant help myself. I really hope they can patch this in. If not, its at least good to know the dev's recognize this is a problem with the current game. If not a patch, maybe they can get it into next years game.

This isn't something they just realized we've wanted.
They have actually tried this in the past...a few years ago. There were tons of problems with the import portion. I guess it had to do with the in progress portion of the franchise.
It's my understanding that the amount of work done on year to year carry over was IMMENSE to get it to work as is(rather than from a specific point that can be "controlled") and I'm further guessing that it gave them solution to importing players mid-franchise. So it's a bonus.

Hopefully they can get it in because it really goes hand in hand with Y2Y saves IMO.

Another bonus would be if we ever get custom franchise setup....you could start a franchise from any year and have your franchise evolve as it did for real.
That would be unbelievable.

M.K.
Knight165

[PsychoBulk]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

Another bonus would be if we ever get custom franchise setup....you could start a franchise from any year and have your franchise evolve as it did for real.
That would be unbelievable.

M.K.
Knight165

Now you really are getting into the wondrous OOTP territory

[55]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

We still don't even have career stat tracking in franchise mode so I'm not going to hold my breath on any of this. It would certainly be nice though!

[My993C2]

Re: 2015 Rookies not in March 31st game

But ... Travis and Castro are not in my 2015 modified OSFM roster set at all and Iglesias is only a 55 (seems pretty low for a potential 5th man in the Red's rotation) and Micah Johnson is 67 (which may be fine). I am not all that worried about the player likeness and for the players in my 2015 modified OSFM rosters, I can just replicate the likenesses they had in that roster set.

I was mistaken when I said this the other day. Last night I found all the missing players in the Free Agents pool of the modified 2015 OSFM roster set sookiebunny released into the vault about a month or so ago. Hector Olivera, Kris Bryant, Devon Travis and Miguel Castro were all hiding as free agents (Castro was a little harder to find because his overall rating was only a mere 56). I have begun the process of releasing players from the Dodgers, Cubs and Blue Jays 40-man rosters to clear a spot for these missing free agents and once the released players clear waivers and spots on the 40-man rosters open up I can sign the missing players to their respective teams and their player likenesses and ratings will then become available to me in the player editor which I will then import into the MLB 15 game when I get it next week. It's really the player likeness setting I am after as I will overwrite the player ratings if and when SCEA adds them to the game in a future roster update or wait for the 2015 OSFM to be released.

Oh and for the fellow who recommended that Micah Johnson from the White Sox have a base stealing rating of at least 90. No need to worry as the roster set I have has him as a 99 when it comes to stealing bases. It's just some of his other ratings that brings his overall score down.