MLB 14 The Show Franchise Progress

[Alfonsori]

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I have been debating on editing player potentials. has anybody else found a good moral system that makes you feel like its not cheating. I have a 22y/o RF and a 21 y/o 1B that are playing really well and are low 70's with B potential. But based on their numbers i would think they had the potential to hit 90. Would it be immoral to chagne their potential to A if they keep hitting this way through next season?

and the A's dominate in my franchise, i keep losing to them, and lost in 4 games to them in the playoffs.

If they continue to rake, why not. But on the other hand i could just be a fluke and they suck at seasons end. Wait a bit and see what they do after a year or so.

[underdog13]

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I have been debating on editing player potentials. has anybody else found a good moral system that makes you feel like its not cheating. I have a 22y/o RF and a 21 y/o 1B that are playing really well and are low 70's with B potential. But based on their numbers i would think they had the potential to hit 90. Would it be immoral to chagne their potential to A if they keep hitting this way through next season?.

Their Potential can change on it's own. You will get a message in your inbox about player x.. has been really hot or player y has been really struggling.

[chitown1-23]

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Other cubs fans do you guys have trouble hitting with castro? Every year it seems like I always bat .250 or lower with him.

I'm hitting around .270 with him through 26 games last year I hit over .300 with him and a surprise here he has yet to commit an error

[chitown1-23]

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Just finished the month of April at 13-14 with a 2-1 loss to the reds

I hit .250 slg .400 obp .296 fld .988 era .383 hit 27 home runs 109 RBI

I have dropped to 4-9 in one run ball games that's gotta change Gettn ready for a 3 game set with the hated cardinals who are 14-15

NL central standings

Reds 16-14
Brewers 15-15
Cards 14-15
Cubs 13-14
Pirates 11-18

Evan longoria leads the league with 13 homers and 32 RBI and Everth Cabrera with 22 steals justin upton hitting .402

[scholt]

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in 2016 now with a fantasy draft

my rotation is:

cole
ryu
m perez
dubront


my big players are:

heyward
freeman
puig
machado
salvador
segura
encarnacion(just got him)


i have a questions about (online) franchise

will you have different amounts of money to use depending on who you use?

at end of season you have so much money to use on free agents(your own and others')

will nyy have like $240 mil to use while hou has like $90?

thanks!

[chitown1-23]

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I have moved into a 3 way tie for first with a 5-4 win over the Cards have taken the first two of the 3 game set. Was up 4-2 when Mark Ellis hit a game tying 2 run homerun off Blake Parker in the top of the 8th then I managed 3 straight hits to take a 5-4 lead. Lake hit his 3rd home run Hammel went 7 innings 2 runs and had 2 RBI to show for it. Valbuena finally did something as he had the game wining hit, time to get the brooms out going for the sweep!!

[Kirkel13]

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I started my franchise with the Pirates and thanks to several of the teams being on "rebuilding strategy" I was able to put together the following roster. (I have force trades off btw)

Rotation

1. Jose Fernandez
2. Madison Bumgarner
3. Gerrit Cole
4. Francisco Liriano
5. Zach Wheeler
(Also acquired Dylan Bundy, Trevor Bauer and Yordano Ventura)

Lineup

1. Starling Marte
2. Manny Machado (moved back to SS)
3. Andrew Mccutchen
4. Pedro Alvarez/Buster Posey
5. Buster Posey/Pedro Alvarez
6. Eric Hosmer
7. Neil Walker
8. Gregory Polonco (Pirates had a 75 overall Top 50 OF prospect I re-named)

[MasonTK]

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I started my franchise with the Pirates and thanks to several of the teams being on "rebuilding strategy" I was able to put together the following roster. (I have force trades off btw)

Rotation

1. Jose Fernandez
2. Madison Bumgarner
3. Gerrit Cole
4. Francisco Liriano
5. Zach Wheeler
(Also acquired Dylan Bundy, Trevor Bauer and Yordano Ventura)

Lineup

1. Starling Marte
2. Manny Machado (moved back to SS)
3. Andrew Mccutchen
4. Pedro Alvarez/Buster Posey
5. Buster Posey/Pedro Alvarez
6. Eric Hosmer
7. Neil Walker
8. Gregory Polonco (Pirates had a 75 overall Top 50 OF prospect I re-named)

This worries me if you did, in fact, have force trades turned off. I can't even comprehend how you pulled this off unless your highest rated reliever is like a 65. Even then.... ugh. Would love to see the player-for-player deals you made.

[Kirkel13]

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This worries me if you did, in fact, have force trades turned off. I can't even comprehend how you pulled this off unless your highest rated reliever is like a 65. Even then.... ugh. Would love to see the player-for-player deals you made.

After the regular season update, it is super easy to trade this year, as the game seems to over value prospects.. Some of the deals were unbelievable because of the team being in rebuilding mode.. The Yankees for instance; will trade you pretty much any three players for 1 B potential prospect. I picked up Teixeira, McCann and Tanaka for a 65 overall prospect(traded all 3 for posey and bumgarner) and then traded for CC and Beltran to re-trade them as well. The Met's are also in rebuilding mode: I added Harvey(used to get Fernandez) and Wheeler for two A potential pitching prospects that were 48 and 54 overall. I don't necessarily like that the trading system seems broken, but I'm fine with taking advantage of it.

[CaseIH]

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After the regular season update, it is super easy to trade this year, as the game seems to over value prospects.. Some of the deals were unbelievable because of the team being in rebuilding mode.. The Yankees for instance; will trade you pretty much any three players for 1 B potential prospect. I picked up Teixeira, McCann and Tanaka for a 65 overall prospect(traded all 3 for posey and bumgarner) and then traded for CC and Beltran to re-trade them as well. The Met's are also in rebuilding mode: I added Harvey(used to get Fernandez) and Wheeler for two A potential pitching prospects that were 48 and 54 overall. I don't necessarily like that the trading system seems broken, but I'm fine with taking advantage of it.

Thats not good to hear. Looks like if they dont fix that in a patch I will need house rules unfortunately which I hate to have to do. I have already heard that budgets are broken and after a few years in there are not teams that would be considered small market, so thats definitely broken and needing fixed. From the looks of it sim stats and regression have been fixed, it looks like they fix a couple things then break a couple,lol.

[MasonTK]

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After the regular season update, it is super easy to trade this year, as the game seems to over value prospects.. Some of the deals were unbelievable because of the team being in rebuilding mode.. The Yankees for instance; will trade you pretty much any three players for 1 B potential prospect. I picked up Teixeira, McCann and Tanaka for a 65 overall prospect(traded all 3 for posey and bumgarner) and then traded for CC and Beltran to re-trade them as well. The Met's are also in rebuilding mode: I added Harvey(used to get Fernandez) and Wheeler for two A potential pitching prospects that were 48 and 54 overall. I don't necessarily like that the trading system seems broken, but I'm fine with taking advantage of it.

Taking advantage of it? If you want a team full of superstars you can just edit rosters.

I'm assuming you are playing with the salary cap off. If not, have fun when arbitration kicks in for a few of those guys.

[RogueHominid]

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Random note on the A's young staff's domination: in my last game I fanned 7 straight batters with Sonny Gray. I've never done anything like that before. Love the kid!

[lek]

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I started my franchise with the Pirates and thanks to several of the teams being on "rebuilding strategy" I was able to put together the following roster. (I have force trades off btw)

Rotation

1. Jose Fernandez
2. Madison Bumgarner
3. Gerrit Cole
4. Francisco Liriano
5. Zach Wheeler
(Also acquired Dylan Bundy, Trevor Bauer and Yordano Ventura)

Lineup

1. Starling Marte
2. Manny Machado (moved back to SS)
3. Andrew Mccutchen
4. Pedro Alvarez/Buster Posey
5. Buster Posey/Pedro Alvarez
6. Eric Hosmer
7. Neil Walker
8. Gregory Polonco (Pirates had a 75 overall Top 50 OF prospect I re-named)


This is why since 2011 I play either with fictional players or controlling all teams. This kind of roster and trades ruins the game for me. Looks like I am staying with 2013 until fictional rosters for 14 come out.

[FREEXBOXONE]

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This worries me if you did, in fact, have force trades turned off. I can't even comprehend how you pulled this off unless your highest rated reliever is like a 65. Even then.... ugh. Would love to see the player-for-player deals you made.

i cant seem to pry fernandez away from the Marlins with a crobar... good luck

[Kirkel13]

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Taking advantage of it? If you want a team full of superstars you can just edit rosters.

I'm assuming you are playing with the salary cap off. If not, have fun when arbitration kicks in for a few of those guys.

I've really just been screwing around until the PS4 version comes out and I'm actually hoping trade logic is improved on that version or at least in an update, before I start my legit franchise..

I don't mind screwing around with a superstar roster for a couple weeks, but it's kind of boring when you can build a team like this so early/easily for a long term franchise.