Expansion Team Mode in MLB The Show?

[bryanm1982]

MLB said they are waiting for the Oakland and Tampa stadium issued to resolve before expansion. Sounds like Tampa is close so they are now waiting on Oakland.

The expansion mode would be awesome but I don’t know how they would adjust the schedules. You would almost have to do it in year 2 when the schedules become random I would think. They couldn’t rotate the interleague schedules or fix the day game issue in 2021. So I don’t know how they would get the schedules to work with an expansion team.

[soxfanbs91]

Quote: Originally Posted by bryanm1982

MLB said they are waiting for the Oakland and Tampa stadium issued to resolve before expansion. Sounds like Tampa is close so they are now waiting on Oakland. The expansion mode would be awesome but I don’t know how they would adjust the schedules. You would almost have to do it in year 2 when the schedules become random I would think. They couldn’t rotate the interleague schedules or fix the day game issue in 2021. So I don’t know how they would get the schedules to work with an expansion team.

Yeah, it would almost have to be built into the mode to have a schedule generated dependent on which Division you pick and where the second expansion team would be.

Drawing a blank but I swear there was a game you could do this in and there were no problems. MVP or All-Star baseball maybe?

[bryanm1982]

Quote: Originally Posted by soxfanbs91

Yeah, it would almost have to be built into the mode to have a schedule generated dependent on which Division you pick and where the second expansion team would be. Drawing a blank but I swear there was a game you could do this in and there were no problems. MVP or All-Star baseball maybe?

It was Allstar baseball. I can’t even remember if they even followed the real life schedule in that game.

[NYJin2011tm]

I would love expansion! I kind of thought they were building towards it with stadium creator and creating/rebranding teams added the last few years. I’m hoping anyway.

[jcar0725]

I don't see it happening. Pretty sure it would cause nightmares with the schedule.

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[Funkycorm]

Will echo what I said last year in this thread, expansion is low priority. Other areas should be the focus first before this.

[kinsmen7]

Quote: Originally Posted by jcar0725

I don't see it happening. Pretty sure it would cause nightmares with the schedule. Sent from my thoughts

I don't know...I don't think it'd be hard to implement from a scheduling perspective...sure, maybe they would need to trim the schedule down by a few games, or add a couple to make the math work, but both NBA 2K and the NHL series have managed to make it work.

IMO, the biggest issue would come from a roster perspective. Easy to set that stuff up with an OOTB roster, but once you start adding in custom rosters, I feel like things would start to get a bit rough.

[jcar0725]

Quote: Originally Posted by kinsmen7

I don't know...I don't think it'd be hard to implement from a scheduling perspective...sure, maybe they would need to trim the schedule down by a few games, or add a couple to make the math work, but both NBA 2K and the NHL series have managed to make it work. IMO, the biggest issue would come from a roster perspective. Easy to set that stuff up with an OOTB roster, but once you start adding in custom rosters, I feel like things would start to get a bit rough.

You might be right I'm not a programmer. NBA has expansion but it does become pretty arcady in my opinion. Bottom like is more likely there just aren't enough people crying for expansion for them to spend resources on making it work.

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