Re: Community Day Questions, Answers, and Impressions
Yes, this is an incredibly good, insightful post, great job.
This will work great for those that have the Helton lead off issue. Win/Win.
Yes that would be a good trophy. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of trophies will be in this year!
Well, the answer is yes and no. 
With the ability to control all 30 teams, you can prevent this from happening, but in the grand scheme of things, the fact that it is happening is good.
The problem is that as human beings, we tie things to player's names. We see the name "Todd Helton" and we immediately think of his place in the lineups that we've seen in real-life before and that's it. Our brains completely disregard ratings and stats, and other items which computers use to evaluate a player.
To the CPU, Todd Helton is just player x36549789 and the CPU has to be programmed to set up a lineup based upon the player statistics and attributes only. NOT according to some non-quantifiable characteristic.
If the SCEA guys were to program the lineups to be set in a certain manner, then as the years progress or players get hurt, the CPU would not have the ability to alter the lineups properly, and you'd suddenly see a power slugging lead-off hitter because the guy he replaced was a quick, high OBP guy.
I am actually quite happy with how SCEA has this set-up where the CPU will set its lineups based upon the player stats and attributes. As you go further and further along in a career, the names of the players become 100% meaningless because all the players are made-up. So you no longer have the "But so-and-so always bats 3rd" recollections in your head.
SCEA can either opt to make the lineups accurate for the first couple of seasons for real-roster setups, or they can opt to make it accurate for the the last dozen seasons or so and for fantasy rosters of made-up players while giving an option to the player for working around some "line-up" differences.
With the ability to control all 30 teams, you can prevent this from happening, but in the grand scheme of things, the fact that it is happening is good.The problem is that as human beings, we tie things to player's names. We see the name "Todd Helton" and we immediately think of his place in the lineups that we've seen in real-life before and that's it. Our brains completely disregard ratings and stats, and other items which computers use to evaluate a player.
To the CPU, Todd Helton is just player x36549789 and the CPU has to be programmed to set up a lineup based upon the player statistics and attributes only. NOT according to some non-quantifiable characteristic.
If the SCEA guys were to program the lineups to be set in a certain manner, then as the years progress or players get hurt, the CPU would not have the ability to alter the lineups properly, and you'd suddenly see a power slugging lead-off hitter because the guy he replaced was a quick, high OBP guy.
I am actually quite happy with how SCEA has this set-up where the CPU will set its lineups based upon the player stats and attributes. As you go further and further along in a career, the names of the players become 100% meaningless because all the players are made-up. So you no longer have the "But so-and-so always bats 3rd" recollections in your head.
SCEA can either opt to make the lineups accurate for the first couple of seasons for real-roster setups, or they can opt to make it accurate for the the last dozen seasons or so and for fantasy rosters of made-up players while giving an option to the player for working around some "line-up" differences.
This will work great for those that have the Helton lead off issue. Win/Win.
Yes that would be a good trophy. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of trophies will be in this year!
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