RTTS thoughts

[A_Quiet_Pro]

I really hope they tune RTTS in the future and make it so your teammates piggy back off your success and do well too. It's very disappointing having my player get the MVP, almost have the triple crown (few points shy of Miggy in avg), and win my division by 13 games just to have them almost blow the ALDS (5 games) and then completely blow the ALCS (4-1). Knowing I can't control my other guys, it'd be nice to have them get a boost if I'm doing well. (Again, disappointing knowing I'm doing well, and they suck when it matters).

[cusefan74]

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Players don't get a boost IRL. 2012 Miggy wins triple crown and the A's take them to 5 games in the first round of playoffs. Tigers end up in Series and the Giants sweep them. So it's not unrealistic what happened to your team.

[dalger21]

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I really hope they tune RTTS in the future and make it so your teammates piggy back off your success and do well too. It's very disappointing having my player get the MVP, almost have the triple crown (few points shy of Miggy in avg), and win my division by 13 games just to have them almost blow the ALDS (5 games) and then completely blow the ALCS (4-1). Knowing I can't control my other guys, it'd be nice to have them get a boost if I'm doing well. (Again, disappointing knowing I'm doing well, and they suck when it matters).

I disagree. See A-Rod in 2003 (PEDs or not). I like the fact that my RttS player is doing well but the rest of the team sucks. That is much more realistic than winning every year simply because my RttS is playing so well.

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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Players don't get a boost IRL. 2012 Miggy wins triple crown and the A's take them to 5 games in the first round of playoffs. Tigers end up in Series and the Giants sweep them. So it's not unrealistic what happened to your team.

Very True. It's just disappointing is all. (I see your point and raise you this however)... The Royals last year kept feeding off one another, and went to WS Gm 7. That's kinda what I was getting at. but very well.

[Factzzz]

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My thoughts on RTTS is that they didn't change anything from last year.

[RoyceDa59]

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My thoughts on RTTS is that they didn't change anything from last year.

Yeah nothing new was added this year too it except equipment, I has a lot of elements to it that need to tweaked. The offseason in the RttS just feels terrible since you don't even get heads up on whats going on in your team like new trades. Also would love to see a better player-manager interaction besides those dull emails you get.

[aukevin]

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I signed a cheap 7 year contract with the team I wanted to be with after my first year (rookie of the year). I think it is 1.2 million a year which is great for a player that turned into a 2-time MVP, 3-time Golden Glove winner, Triple Crown winner, and single season HR record holder. My hope was that by me being real cheap my team could keep good players. I'm on the Braves and in year 2019 the team is still the core of the 2014 team which in the video game world is really good. The team still has Freeman, Heyward, both Uptons, Simmons, Teheran, Wood, Kimbrel, Minor, Bethancourt, and Gattis. At 3B the team traded for Todd Frazier and had him a couple years before trading him in his contract year for Pedro Alvarez who hit 40 HRs in 2018. The team has been really strong, winning 3 World Series in my 5 years and making the playoffs each year. I don't know if taking a long cheap contract helped keep the team together or not. But money is worthless in this game, so I figured why try to get as big a contract as possible when my team could afford better players if I took a cheap one.

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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I guess the upside to my loss in the playoffs was that since I got the MVP, I also got a Gold Glove, AND rewarded with a 4 year 52,200,000 contract. So that's something good I guess.

[dalger21]

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all i have to do is lead off first and wait for the pitcher to throw over, and then break for second, while the first baseman lobs the ball to the shortstop.

Wai...what? That's crazy.

[StevenSD]

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I guess the upside to my loss in the playoffs was that since I got the MVP, I also got a Gold Glove, AND rewarded with a 4 year 52,200,000 contract. So that's something good I guess.

But contract money doesn't mean anything... if anything your yearly salary will keep the team from signing or retaining better players.

[canucksss]

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But contract money doesn't mean anything... if anything your yearly salary will keep the team from signing or retaining better players.

And this is a reality. Only few players, AS caliber that comes to a team with a strong possibility of becoming a champion, and usually they are late stage of their careers. Yes, it is unfortunate that the contract money doesn't mean anything, get your fancy cars etc., but having someone with a big salary because he deserves it does not surprise me. I am glad its in the game.

[A_Quiet_Pro]

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But contract money doesn't mean anything... if anything your yearly salary will keep the team from signing or retaining better players.

That's the thing, I have a LOT of young, new guys who were doing great and consistent in the Reg Season, nice to see... then the postseason came, and they fell apart.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Would be nice at some point in the future to have a mode that's mostly RRTS based but adds a few elements of franchise.
Different options to control as much as the user wants, like trade veto for all teams or just yours.
Ability to play as other players in addition to your RTTS player.
Off topic, I wish you could create a 40 year old rookie like in older RTTS'.

[dalger21]

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I think some people are forgetting the purpose of RttS. A top prospect doesn't get to choose if he is traded or not (no matter how many times) so why would that happen in RttS? People talk about the lack of realism sometimes but being able to dictate trades, rosters, etc when you're in RttS would be ultra unrealistic and defeat the purpose of a "my player" mode. I guess that's just me tho...