MLB 2K8: Diary of a Giant Turnaround, Part 2

[cubsbelieve07]

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And that's why I'll play my franchise with owner firing turned off. Very stupid AI logic.

And the trade logic is still incredibly flawed. Why would the Yankees trade Joba Chamberlain for two washed up middle infielders, and a slightly above average outfielder, when they wouldn't consider trading him for Johan Santana? I'll still get the game, and have a blast playing it, but they're killing me with the trade logic.

I agree this disappointed me, those trades are just terrible logic. Texiara (sp?) and Chamberlin would not be traded in those situations. The braves just gave up their farm for Tex and like he said the Yanks wouldnt even trade Joba for Johan

[bowlerguy92]

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Hold your britches everyone, see how it works out for YOU and then make a decision from there.

[nymets3000]

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I'm still reading it, but I don't like the trades still. He offers Winn, Durham and Omar and teams are willing to trade Carpenter, Sabathia and Joba?

[baa7]

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Hee-hee! Great article.

[jrod1981]

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Lol, ya I can see it now "get rid of Howard he is a burden to our club". That would probably lead me to the possibility of throwing the game out the window.

HAHAH! Yea, i'm sure the cubs will want me to unload Zambrano! I'm sooo pumped for the game after reading this! I'll tell you this much, I will be making a trade for a big time pitcher if my team is not in 1st place at the all-star break.

[MizzouRah]

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Enjoyed reading this, thanks!

[Greenevol]

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I have to say thetrade logic worries me a bit also. I had to stop playing NHL 2k8 because of the rediculous amount of player movement. Ovechkin was traded twice in 2 months for a bunch of scrubs.

I don't mind the comp offering me silly trades, because I can always decline, but if the comp is offering crap like that to other teams, that could pose a problem.

[Crash Davis]

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IF Manny is winning your HR king of the year, u need to do some serious editing in rosters, he's in decline, not big time but he'll never have the most HR's in a season EVER

[RoyalBoyle78]

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still looking very forward to 2K8 even as I bought the show yesterday, I will buy next week when it comes out, I wish I could have found this early too.

[MizzouRah]

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still looking very forward to 2K8 even as I bought the show yesterday, I will buy next week when it comes out, I wish I could have found this early too.

It would have at least been nice to play a demo this weekend.

[bowlerguy92]

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IF Manny is winning your HR king of the year, u need to do some serious editing in rosters, he's in decline, not big time but he'll never have the most HR's in a season EVER

Ya, but basically everyone of his homers is MAMMOTH. What his homers now lack in quantity, they make up for in quality!

[Deelron]

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Hmm it's odd, I didn't think the trades were as off as they have been in previous years/examples. First thing to keep in mind is that the players the Giants are trading, while decrepit in real life are not so in the game. The game's AI shouldn't make decisions off of real life, it should make them within the context of the game, and all those players have been rated pretty decently the last few years.

Secondly, we don't know the whole situation between the trades. Sabathia in a walk year + two cheap guys for the three Giants is in a walk year, is probably the worst in my opinion. The Joba trade, while particularly scary on the surface makes much more sense with his explanation that Damon and Cano are out and the Yankees arn't doing that well. Just a quick search finds a list of young players the Yankees traded away from 1997 to 2005. (http://www.newpartisan.com/home/the-...aded-away.html) Is it really that out of line that if the Yankees were going to flirt with missing the playoffs would make such a trade?

It seems to me that the major problem with the trades in the write up isn't the trade AI per se, it's the horrible roster ratings that ruin a reasonable measure of the AI itself.

BTW, loved the write up itself, sounds like great fun.