MLB the show 18 interleague rotation

[T5063]

Has there been any news to whether this has been fixed/added for '18?


In previous versions you'd play the same division every year in interleague play in Franchise and RTTS modes instead of rotating divisions on a yearly basis.

[countryboy]

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Not yet.

the franchise stream and blog isn't for another 3 weeks or so.

[My993C2]

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I am a software developer at an Insurance Company and I believe there is a fairly easy fix for this issue. But one thing you hear year after year from the SDS peeps in their DEV Streams is "Priorities". There are only so many hours in their short development time lines to deal with known issues and as a software developer I go through the same "Priorities" regarding features that I:

1) Need to change.

versus ...

2) Would like to change but there is just never enough time in the release cycle.

Would I like to see the interleague scheduling fixed? Yes I would. Do I think there is a fairly easy way to fix it? Yes I do. But I would much rather see the SDS peeps spend time improving the game play (as they appeared to have done again this year) versus spending the time to fix the interleague schedule. It's all about priorities.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB the show 18 interleague rotation

I am a software developer at an Insurance Company and I believe there is a fairly easy fix for this issue. But one thing you hear year after year from the SDS peeps in their DEV Streams is "Priorities". There are only so many hours in their short development time lines to deal with known issues and as a software developer I go through the same "Priorities" regarding features that I:

1) Need to change.

versus ...

2) Would like to change but there is just never enough time in the release cycle.

Would I like to see the interleague scheduling fixed? Yes I would. Do I think there is a fairly easy way to fix it? Yes I do. But I would much rather see the SDS peeps spend time improving the game play (as they appeared to have done again this year) versus spending the time to fix the interleague schedule. It's all about priorities.

If you have an easy fix for them, I'm sure they'd love to hear it. They have been trying to get rotating interleague schedules into the game and its not working properly.

[JayD]

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Your title had me excited. You should put it in the form of a question next time.

[My993C2]

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If you have an easy fix for them, I'm sure they'd love to hear it. They have been trying to get rotating interleague schedules into the game and its not working properly.

One would assume that the league schedule are stored in database tables right? And the Interleague game play recycles every three years right. Since they already store the current year schedule in the database. Why not store the previous two years as well and recycle the schedule for every year in the franchise. We don't need perfection in the game. We don't need a different schedule every year. We just need a little variety. The basics of the real world baseball schedule is repeatable every year. In the month of April and into the first week or so of May the vast majority of the games a team plays is against their division rivals making sure on average you play 3 home and 3 roads games against your rivals. Then for the six weeks or so you play games against other teams in your league as well as throw in some inter-league play. In the middle of the summer you play (on average) 3 more home and 3 more road games against your division rivals. Followed by another round of in league and inter-league games during the dog days of summer and then in the last six weeks of the season you play (on average) three more home and three more road games against your division rivals to end the regular season. This pattern is repeated year after year.

We don't need perfection, we don't need a dynamic schedule every year. All we need is variety which can be achieved by reusing the schedules from previous years. The database tables to store a schedule can't be that big. There really isn't that much information that needs to be stored. One week of coding (probably less now that I think about it) and a little testing and it's done. But it's about priorities.

[My993C2]

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Somebody actually came up with a low-tech suggestion for a fix last year: hardwire previous years' schedules to rotate each season.

Might have been me ... LOL ...

[Caulfield]

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Could also be confirmed during the RTTS stream. More variety of opponents would be very welcome when you're grinding with your player for 20+ seasons.


Somebody actually came up with a low-tech suggestion for a fix last year: hardwire previous years' schedules to rotate each season.

Apparently there was a reason even this would FUBAR everything. Hopefully this is what the asterisks are for on the dev schedule.

[countryboy]

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One would assume that the league schedule are stored in database tables right? And the Interleague game play recycles every three years right. Since they already store the current year schedule in the database. Why not store the previous two years as well and recycle the schedule for every year in the franchise. We don't need perfection in the game. We don't need a different schedule every year. We just need a little variety. The basics of the real world baseball schedule is repeatable every year. In the month of April and into the first week or so of May the vast majority of the games a team plays is against their division rivals making sure on average you play 3 home and 3 roads games against your rivals. Then for the six weeks or so you play games against other teams in your league as well as throw in some inter-league play. In the middle of the summer you play (on average) 3 more home and 3 more road games against your division rivals. Followed by another round of in league and inter-league games during the dog days of summer and then in the last six weeks of the season you play (on average) three more home and three more road games against your division rivals to end the regular season. This pattern is repeated year after year.

We don't need perfection, we don't need a dynamic schedule every year. All we need is variety which can be achieved by reusing the schedules from previous years. The database tables to store a schedule can't be that big. There really isn't that much information that needs to be stored. One week of coding (probably less now that I think about it) and a little testing and it's done. But it's about priorities.

Well maybe they will read this and figure out how to do it, because as they have stated, they have tried but can't get it to work properly.

Hopefully this is the year they figured it out.

[Cowboy008]

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Haven't heard anything on that yet. We will probably find out in a week or so.

[T5063]

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So has this been confirmed either way?

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Rotating interleague schedules did NOT make it in to The Show 18. Ramone expressed disappointment at this fact, and said that they will try again next year.

[Armor and Sword]

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I really thought this was the year.

Oh well. I gotta believe it will be in 19. Keep the faith!

[JayD]

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This must be a lot tougher than any of us thought.

[dalger21]

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This must be a lot tougher than any of us thought.

Maybe. The fact that right now, you switch with the teams in your division each year means there is an option of just switching with a different division team to make it happen. Coding that to make it work, however is a different story.