Bacon's Fictional Roster

[bacon96]

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Plain and simple for me. My suggestion is just more of your created players! As you get beyond the 40 man list perhaps some more young superstars in the making would good. I know you have a good sprinkling already but I would also really like some more International superstars and prospects. Thanks again for all your hard work!

PS On a purely personal note a couple of Aussies would appreciated as well!

i agree, adding more international prospects like Europeans would be pretty cool to have

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More foreign players and more young superstars. I'll get to work on those two ideas for sure.

[JoshC1977]

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I like the foreign-born players angle. The name database is a bit shallow in that area, but I'm sure it could be done.

More young superstars....eh....careful what one wishes for. The thing I like about the current roster is that the potential ratings are much more in-line with SDS' core roster. Too many rosters have inflated potentials and that can wreck havoc with the AI in terms of managing salaries and executing trades. People don't always realize that a B or C potential player can be an absolute stud with the right ratings build.

To each his own though. Regardless Bacon, you'll always have my support in your roster endeavors!

[bacon96]

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I like the foreign-born players angle. The name database is a bit shallow in that area, but I'm sure it could be done.

More young superstars....eh....careful what one wishes for. The thing I like about the current roster is that the potential ratings are much more in-line with SDS' core roster. Too many rosters have inflated potentials and that can wreck havoc with the AI in terms of managing salaries and executing trades. People don't always realize that a B or C potential player can be an absolute stud with the right ratings build.

To each his own though. Regardless Bacon, you'll always have my support in your roster endeavors!

These are legitimately my concerns as well. I plan on pushing the limits of the newly expanded name database so there will be new names out there.

As for productive players, even D potential guys are useful IMO and my biggest issue with most rosters is potential ratings so I'm pretty conservative in terms of increasing potentials.

I'll need to find some middle ground here for the best result.

[Culture Rot]

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Bacon, do you feel players with 60 and below fielding and reaction ratings behave stupidly, or that its more realistic this year? Hearing alot of different things on this.

[bacon96]

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I’d also be interested in more of a backstory for each franchise. As little or as much as you could provide. How the teams ends up the way they are.



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This will be something I think some more about then.

[bacon96]

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Bacon, do you feel players with 60 and below fielding and reaction ratings behave stupidly, or that its more realistic this year? Hearing alot of different things on this.

I don't think I've played enough games to have noticed this quite yet but I'll keep an eye open for anything odd.

[GregNilles]

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Hey Bacon, I'm almost thru April and am having a blast with this 2019 set.

I'm curious about 2020 free agents. Did you develop any thought into who specifically would be a free agent in 2020?

Thanks dude!

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[joebrown352]

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This is great Bacon! Love the companion spreadsheet as well. Top notch stuff. Kind of curious who are some of your favorite players as well as everyone elses? Just getting started exploring it myself.

[No.27]

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This is great Bacon! Love the companion spreadsheet as well. Top notch stuff. Kind of curious who are some of your favorite players as well as everyone elses? Just getting started exploring it myself.

Clinton Lake the Red Sox CF is the complete package! Switch hitter, good contact and vision, power on both sides, excellent fielder and speedy.

[bacon96]

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Hey Bacon, I'm almost thru April and am having a blast with this 2019 set.

I'm curious about 2020 free agents. Did you develop any thought into who specifically would be a free agent in 2020?

Thanks dude!

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Thanks Greg! I'm glad you're enjoying this year's version.

As for your question, I appreciate this question because there isn't an obvious answer. I tried to put in a lot of first year-expiring free agent deals so the second years of franchise would be very different every time you play and so the first offseason contains a lot of changing of teams for a lot of players. Then, top prospects were (mostly) placed onto teams at positions where a player would be leaving in free agency so there's a choice for who you'd like to keep (a top prospect or a pending free agent) at a lot of positions on a number of teams throughout the league. I didn't/still don't have a set number I was trying to get to at a minimum however.

[bacon96]

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This is great Bacon! Love the companion spreadsheet as well. Top notch stuff. Kind of curious who are some of your favorite players as well as everyone elses? Just getting started exploring it myself.

I've played through Angels and Rays franchises so my favorite players come from those teams. Big fan of Donnie Roland, Tim Brennan and Bronson Ware on the Halos and then thoroughly enjoyed my time with Tampa using Ed Cole and Lefty Wright among others. Other than those players, I also enjoy using players who were originally RTTS creations for me like Speedy McGee and P.J. Kid.

[dpc134]

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Clinton Lake the Red Sox CF is the complete package! Switch hitter, good contact and vision, power on both sides, excellent fielder and speedy.

I did a fantasy draft with the Phillies and drafted Clinton Lake on my team. I cant seem to get him going, 25 games in and he is only batting .210 with 2 HRs. His fielding has been solid. He is an older player with alot of $$ on his contract, so I am hoping he picks things up.

[No.27]

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I did a fantasy draft with the Phillies and drafted Clinton Lake on my team. I cant seem to get him going, 25 games in and he is only batting .210 with 2 HRs. His fielding has been solid. He is an older player with alot of $$ on his contract, so I am hoping he picks things up.

He bats behind Rondell McKnight on the Red Sox so that helps. I use him mainly with pull influence and seem to be getting good results. The beauty of a Fictional Roster is if a guy isn’t working for me I’m happy to change their stance as well to see if I can improve things.

[No.27]

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Bacon, you created a MONSTER! I just had the pleasure of being shutdown by TYLER ELLIOT! I somehow managed to get McKnight and Lake on base even though I think my eyes were closed when I swung. I had thoughts of erasing his 2 run lead and even winning the game. He just gritted his teeth and struck out the next 3 with 2 of them caught looking. Great stuff! I’m even enjoying losing with this roster.

[joebrown352]

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Bacon, this may be a odd request, but if you have the time could you do a quick 25 man fantasy draft, trying to build the best, most complete team you could and post the results? I'm going to do a 30 team control fantasy draft with some of your fictional guys and some legends mixed into a custom roster and I want to have one of the teams be fully composed of your players. I'm interested to see who you would select that would complement each other well and contend for a few years.