MLB '11 The Show: Tips and Work Arounds

[Knight165]

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Ok here is a dumb question I guess, How do you create a dummy profile after you select all 30 teams. Lets say I want to manage only the Rangers, how do I control the other 29 teams under a dummy profile, Can someone explain this? Do I select the Rangers under mine at the beginning of the season, if I do all 30 won't they all be on my profile?

I'm writing up a PROFILE and 30 TEAM CONTROL "tutorial"...I'll have it on the first page soon.

M.K.
Knight165

[bukktown]

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With 30 team control do you lose the out of town scoreboards like last year?

[raneman85]

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Make a custom 2 profile and set the other 29 teams to CPU and keep your active profile as manual or whatever settings you prefer.. You still have the ability to adjust any of the other CPU managed teams because you are still in control of them, they just aren't under a manually active profile.

[Knight165]

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With 30 team control do you lose the out of town scoreboards like last year?

You didn't lose the out of town scoreboards.
You have to sim the games you don't want to play first...then play your game.
The boards(and now new ticker as well) will update as if the game is being played in accordance with yours.
Did you really lose out on the scoreboard and ticker last year thinking it didn't work?

M.K.
Knight165

[Metsaholic]

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Just to add the workarounds, if you want lineups and pitcher rotations to stick that you have set up and want to carry over to franchise mode you have to manually cut down the 40 man roster of each team to the 25 man roster prior to ending spring training, otherwise they will do their own waivers and cuts, and then they will see fit to set the lineups based on their logic (ex. Jeter batting 8th, Helton batting 2nd, etc.)

[jr86]

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Not sure if you are allowed to ask q's in here. If not this can be deleted.

But has anyone found a work around for the closer getting yanked when he gives up a hit/run

[Knight165]

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Not sure if you are allowed to ask q's in here. If not this can be deleted.

But has anyone found a work around for the closer getting yanked when he gives up a hit/run

No..I don't think so....
I sent a PM to Russ about this....I think this will have to be a patch thing.
I've tried everything as a work around.

M.K.
Knight165

[bukktown]

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You didn't lose the out of town scoreboards.
You have to sim the games you don't want to play first...then play your game.
The boards(and now new ticker as well) will update as if the game is being played in accordance with yours.
Did you really lose out on the scoreboard and ticker last year thinking it didn't work?

M.K.
Knight165

I knew about the simming last year. I was just typing on my iPod touch and I thought it was the most judicious way to ask the question .

[joel6]

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Just to add the workarounds, if you want lineups and pitcher rotations to stick that you have set up and want to carry over to franchise mode you have to manually cut down the 40 man roster of each team to the 25 man roster prior to ending spring training, otherwise they will do their own waivers and cuts, and then they will see fit to set the lineups based on their logic (ex. Jeter batting 8th, Helton batting 2nd, etc.)

Definitely a must before starting your chise, but if your like me you are 12 games deep and just finding out that the cpu likes to bat there power hitter (aka man.ram) in the #2 hole lol......there may be a workaround to this, here is what im gonna try....at the controller select screen change the user over to the team your playing against, edit there lineup realistically, then when the game starts slide the controller over to your user club....this may be a quick fix for people whom have already starting there seasons without any edits before hand...

[tytyboogie]

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so can u confirm for me that with the 30-team control stated in the beginnning of the thread that the teams with the cpu "profile" created will still make trade offers and do trades and all that stuff? i just want 2 get this straight before i fire up today cuz ive been working on rosters every day since march 8th. that 1st screen when u create a chise is my other question when it says trades on/manual and force trades on/off...which settings for them?besides creating the team cpu profiles and setting those to auto....thanx guys

[andrewochs615]

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If you put trades to On the Cpu will still make trades, however the new trade logic is not there when doing 30 team control. You will still see trades all in may and june and bad trades such as Pujols to Pittsburgh for a prospects and stuff like that. However, you can go to pending transactions and scroll though each teams pending trades and reject any bad ones or unrealistic ones for any team. Or if they look like OK trades you can let them go. The only thing with this is you have to check the pending transactions like every 3 days or so. Also the CPU doesn't really make trades in July because every teams "logic" or whatever it is called is set to "normal" instead of stuff like "playoff push" or "rebuild".

If you leave trades on manual the CPU will not make any trades and you can only make trades whether it be with your team or between "CPU" teams.

[tytyboogie]

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thanx .....one other question im having a issue tyring to "manually injure the players" i have the user settings to manual for all the profiles...like it says. but its just not working so im asking is this done with the roster control set to on or off? (in the opening franchise setup screen)and then im also apparently assinging the profiles to the teams in that team select screen too. been trying all the ways and cant get any of them to work.im going to the disabled list screen so its just empty....no list of players to hit r-1 on...please explain thanks

[xx19kilosoldier]

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Nice job on this thread guys.

[andrewochs615]

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thanx .....one other question im having a issue tyring to "manually injure the players" i have the user settings to manual for all the profiles...like it says. but its just not working so im asking is this done with the roster control set to on or off? (in the opening franchise setup screen)and then im also apparently assinging the profiles to the teams in that team select screen too. been trying all the ways and cant get any of them to work.im going to the disabled list screen so its just empty....no list of players to hit r-1 on...please explain thanks

ok um I am a little confused on what you mean. Are you just asking about manually injuring players? When you start the franchise assign your profiles accordingly. So for example for me I created two profiles one I call "CPU" and the other which s just the user profile. I assigned my user profile to the Orioles and then CPU to everyone else. Then I am pretty sure you put roster control to on i think and you can turn injuries to manual.

Now you can switch injuries on and off from manual all you want in the gameplay settings page. Now when it is set to manual you go to view disable list and you then you can hit r1 which brings up the players. Now here you can also change teams by pressing r2. Once you bring up the players you can scroll through them and hit "x" and assign an injury to the player and a duration length of the injury. The injuries range from a headache to elbow surgery and durations go from 1 day to 217 days or at least that's the most days I have seen

I hope this helps maybe. Again I am kind of confused on what you are asking. Also sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes I am in a rush lol.

[tytyboogie]

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thanx....i will go back in and try again....i kept getting hung up on when i went into the disabled list screen when i go to hit r1 nothing ever happens...i thought i had all the mode settings correct but i obvoiusly did not.thanx again