Franchise withOUT using 30 team control

[doctemple]

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After the end of the season, I look at injuries and uninjure significant players, so that way they can't retire due to injury.

Great. Thanks!

[timmuh1515]

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It really is okay if some people don't want to do 30 team control.

I can appreciate how much you want realism on all 30 teams and it's perfectly fine but it's okay to accept the fact that there are those out there who simply enjoy playing their team in their franchise and not worrying about anything else.

Listen...i'm never going to tell anyone how to enjoy a game...do whatever you enjoy.

I just think people aren't using 30-team control because they think it takes more time. It doesn't have to take any more time...none. You can run it just as if you are doing 1 team control.

But if something happens...say you are 3 seasons in and something happens that you wish you could've changed...you can do it and go right back to just following one team again.

[Braves Fan]

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Problem is you get email notifications for every team (at least you did last year), and you have to simulate every game to get in game scores. I'd just rather not worry about, I have my own system to fix anything I don't like. If something crazy happens and I mean really crazy then I just back out of the game and reload my franchise and advance to the next day and see if it still happens. My guess is it won't. I'd just rather not have 30 team control, just my personal preference. To be honest this shouldn't have to be an option, all it's doing is covering up glitches in the game. I'd rather the issues be fixed.

[ARoid1313]

Problem is you get email notifications for every team (at least you did last year), and you have to simulate every game to get in game scores. I'd just rather not worry about, I have my own system to fix anything I don't like. If something crazy happens and I mean really crazy then I just back out of the game and reload my franchise and advance to the next day and see if it still happens. My guess is it won't. I'd just rather not have 30 team control, just my personal preference. To be honest this shouldn't have to be an option, all it's doing is covering up glitches in the game. I'd rather the issues be fixed.

Agreed the emails and simulating each game doesn't work well when controlling 30 teams

[timmuh1515]

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Problem is you get email notifications for every team (at least you did last year), and you have to simulate every game to get in game scores. I'd just rather not worry about, I have my own system to fix anything I don't like. If something crazy happens and I mean really crazy then I just back out of the game and reload my franchise and advance to the next day and see if it still happens. My guess is it won't. I'd just rather not have 30 team control, just my personal preference. To be honest this shouldn't have to be an option, all it's doing is covering up glitches in the game. I'd rather the issues be fixed.

You can turn off emails for every team other than yours. Go into the email screen and turn the checkbox off for all emails...then do that for every team...takes 5 minutes.

You will still get important notifications though...I believe.

[tyloraw]

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Well, I'm not really as knowledgable about baseball's front office as most of the people on here and I'm rather new to baseball games in general. Only been playing the Show since '09. But I'm slowly picking things up with help of this Forum. So, lengthy history aside, I've never tried a 30 team franchise. But I probably will once I learn a bit more.

But as far as the trade logic and call ups go, I have noticed some weird things. For instance, my Giants team always starts out after spring with a 40 yr old Reliever sitting in MR or LR, that I will usually just release. He's bout the worst reliever on the team, including A Ball. Not sure if it has something to do with his options or something but its pretty weird.

And i will say, the trade logic has let me get away with some pretty lopsided trades. But for the most part, it seems improved over last year. Can't attest to knowing the trade system that well anyways, but I actually like how they did it this year, seems a bit more tight.

[Braves Fan]

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Just started one just to see how if it's different than last years and immediately I noticed a problem. The settings don't stick for your dummy profile. So you'd have to change your dummy profile's settings to auto every day. Does nobody else have this problem?

[Threeebs]

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I noticed there is no pending transactions page in the offseason. How would you control trades during that time then?

[tabarnes19_SDS]

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I use 30 team control and have trades set to instant, so I don't even monitor trades. If I see a completely way off trade-I just trade them back(I have done that only once)

I like 30 team because I can look through the other teams rosters and lineups. I also utilize it to set contracts to manual for the first 3 days of the exclusive period, then switch it back to auto so more free agents hit the open market. I have found this to be the fix for big market teams having too much budget room in future seasons.

[kehlis]

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Listen...i'm never going to tell anyone how to enjoy a game...do whatever you enjoy.

I just think people aren't using 30-team control because they think it takes more time. It doesn't have to take any more time...none. You can run it just as if you are doing 1 team control.

But if something happens...say you are 3 seasons in and something happens that you wish you could've changed...you can do it and go right back to just following one team again.

Listen...I use 30 team control.

All I was saying is that there is no need for you to get so defensive about other people not using it.

There is a difference between trying to educate people on it and going a little overboard.

People you have defensively responded to have given fair reasons why they have no desire in it, not a big deal, you've done your part, it's okay to move on.

As Knight said, we have this great game of choices for a reason.

[KES8514]

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Listen...i'm never going to tell anyone how to enjoy a game...do whatever you enjoy.

I just think people aren't using 30-team control because they think it takes more time. It doesn't have to take any more time...none. You can run it just as if you are doing 1 team control.

But if something happens...say you are 3 seasons in and something happens that you wish you could've changed...you can do it and go right back to just following one team again.

This x1000.

Like I said, why anybody wouldn't use it, with the settings Knight explained, is beyond me.

[kehlis]

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This x1000.

Like I said, why anybody wouldn't use it, with the settings Knight explained, is beyond me.

And like I said, some people just don't care that much, and that's okay.

It's really not as big a deal as some of you make it out to be...


It really is okay if someone just wants to play a franchise as their own team without even thinking about what other teams are doing. No need for a crusade against that thought.

[LowerWolf]

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This x1000.

Like I said, why anybody wouldn't use it, with the settings Knight explained, is beyond me.

For me, it's not about time. I just don't want to play god in my dynasty. I'll worry about my team and let the chips fall where they may elsewhere.

[Armor and Sword]

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For me, it's not about time. I just don't want to play god in my dynasty. I'll worry about my team and let the chips fall where they may elsewhere.

I agree with that big time.

I think the main reason I will have the 30 team control is if I want to switch teams in year 2 or 3 or whatever. Instead of starting over. So I keep the league that has been created alive.

When it comes to playing classic seasons....I don't want wonky trades taking away the authenticity of that particular era or year. As I usually only play one season with classic rosters save for the upcoming 1987 for franchise play from JMeyers and Jethrotull.

[Riverwood_Hood]

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this has already been said but I can't contain myself:
To all the people saying "30-team control is too time-consuming" or "30 team control is for people with OCD" I think you are hugely misunderstanding 30-team control..

sure, you can set it so that you do EVERYTHING for each franchise, and that would be a ton of work.

But if you customize a profile to control limited managerial aspects, and set your teams profile to your personal profile, it essentially allows you to be the general manager of your favorite team, plus the commissioner of the league (veto horrible trades).

I learned my lesson the hard way. By the second season, Bryce Harper had inexplicably been traded to the Twins for a pile of crap, Trevor Bauer had been dealt for someone like Andres Torres, and numerous other elite prospects had been traded for pennies on the dollar before they even reached the big leagues. If 30-team control had been on, I could have prevented all those terrible, unrealistic trades from happening. But instead I had to live with the Miguel Sano/ Juan Rivera blockbuster.

In short, 30-team control is barely time consuming at all. It merely allows you the comfort of knowing teams will not behave like they are snorting bath salts. You can primarily control one team, and step in to play God only when necessary. I can't imagine playing franchise any other way.