Fictional Rosters 13

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Found it. His players are definitely useable for me, so I will possibly be done tonight. There are only two flaws with his rosters as I see them, both of which I have accounted for with mine... Firstly, his players lack personalization to some point. I can guarantee mine will be guys you will remember. Also, his potential ratings are "out of whack" and do not match up with his players' skill. Hold tight guys, we're looking at potentially a tonight or tomorrow morning release. If not, it will be Tuesday night at the very latest.

[maizeblue13]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Found it. His players are definitely useable for me, so I will possibly be done tonight. There are only two flaws with his rosters as I see them, both of which I have accounted for with mine... Firstly, his players lack personalization to some point. I can guarantee mine will be guys you will remember. Also, his potential ratings are "out of whack" and do not match up with his players' skill. Hold tight guys, we're looking at potentially a tonight or tomorrow morning release. If not, it will be Tuesday night at the very latest.

Cool bro.

I ran a franchise sim with that guys roster and it was pretty out of whack. I had 13 guys hit 50+ homers, 26 players hit .300+.

Those are the kinds of stats we DONT want to see when we release our final roster, so as this roster is useable to finish the official fictional roster, the roster that that guy posted was pretty lacking.

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Yeah I secretly simmed what I have so far with a fantasy draft. Leaned towards that as well. I've been stacking pitching since, preferably technique pitching, so hopefully we won't see that in the final release.

[maizeblue13]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

One thing I also think should be in these rosters is a bit of team personality. So for example teams with great pitching but no hitting, teams with no bullpen, teams that only have power, etc.

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Don't worry maizeblue, I couldn't completely remove that if I tried. However, just keep in mind, if teams have holes they naturally try to fill them... so for example if the astros have 3 power hitting outfielders and no pitching, I'll be conducting trades to make things more realistic.

[maizeblue13]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

But you still gotta have the team identities and stuff. We cant have 30 of the exact same type of teams. Theres gotta be some type of variation

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Obviously maizeblue that was the first thing I said. My goal is not to make all teams the same, but to improve upon teams cooperatively. I placed star players on teams logically based on who they might like to sign with based on different circumstances. But even so, if the Cubs have a 38 year old lefty 1B and a 24 year old 1B, and are lacking in pitching, they're going to trade the 38 year old 1B for a pitcher to improve themselves. They aren't going to hold off to preserve their "team personality."

[ajblithe20]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

I get what you're saying about trying to have teams fill their needs. But shouldn't we let Franchise mode kind of do that? There will never be a point where all 30 teams have almost all of their needs filled. So I think it's a bit unrealistic to have the teams so balanced. Now, of course, if you're only doing this to a certain extent... like if a team has too many high caliber players at one position.... then it sounds like a good idea. My only worry with rosters like these is having all the teams too balanced

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Only to the extent that it's logical for both teams. I'm not "playing god" and balancing the teams, they're actually probably more unbalanced than in real life. When conducting trades between teams, I look at it as if I was a GM for each team... It has to be a realistic trade. Just trust me when I say they won't become too balanced, each team has its own strengths and weaknesses, as well as some very distinguishable players. Good news... only 20 more players to make. Bad news... I'll only be able to work for about an hour tonight.

[PistoleFoley]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

If you let me know what is left to be done I can make every remaining player and you can use tonight to set everything up?

[king_riles4]

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Thanks for the offer, but I actually already have them made, I just need to import them... Then I'll do final tweaks on attributes, conduct final trades, and set rosters. Not sure how much I will finish tonight.

[maizeblue13]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Thanks for the offer, but I actually already have them made, I just need to import them... Then I'll do final tweaks on attributes, conduct final trades, and set rosters. Not sure how much I will finish tonight.

An hour seems like plenty of time to finish that stuff up.
Get the final players in, set some lineups, upload to vault as beta, I can look at it and take a final look/run my franchise sim, get the final version released tonight. Sound good?

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

An hour will not be enough time. Likely I will have one more late night of work on it to finish. Simply put, they won't be out tonight.

[maizeblue13]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

An hour will not be enough time. Likely I will have one more late night of work on it to finish. Simply put, they won't be out tonight.

Ah thats alright man. Waiting one day wont kill anybody

[king_riles4]

Re: Fictional Rosters 13

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 25, 6/25/13, will be the release for the rosters. I will upload them at 11:59 PM Central Time. For those of you that may be mathematically challenged, that's 9:59 Pacific, 10:59 Mountain, and 12:59 Eastern. I've been looking forward to this release a long time, and am glad to say that I will have put the finishing touches on the rosters by tomorrow night. I hope you guys like these as much as I do. I will post again approximately 5 minutes before release.

These little dudes just looked cool.