Pedroia gets six year deal

[example1]

You got OOTP? I tend to stick to Clay Dreslough's humble little Baseball Mogul franchise.

 

It has its flaws --a major one is that you can't switch a starter to a reliever or easily stretch a reliever out to start, a big issue with historical pitchers where their role has switched in the past like John Smoltz, Curt Schilling, Rich Gossage, or Derek Lowe, and even moreso with modern players whose roles are conroversial like Papelbon, Joba or Joakim Soria (or going the other way guys who would be better relievers like Eric Gagne or Mariano Rivera turned out to be).

 

Even worse with guys who IRL were starters this year (Feldman, Duchscherer) but last year were in relief. Trading system is whack too, you can acquire premium franchise arms or bats for a 15 player fail salad for example.

 

And then there's the perennial ace that is Houston Street once you go through the INSANELY overlabored process of stretching a guy out by leaving him on the roster in a starting role for 2+ years.

 

 

But it's a nice hit of baseball to help get through the winter and that counts for something. The PBP system is nice and getting better too It also has the advantage of being cheap.

 

I cried when Baseball Mogul Online went down. It's the only online game I know that made a manful attempt to get the whole GM experience down with a real effort to have an honest to God offseason and a relatively intuitive lineup and trade system based more or less on MLB rules. I wish/hope Clay could bring that back at some point. It was a good game.

 

I have played Baseball Mogul in the past and have been a little disappointed by it.

 

 

OOTP has full minor league rosters, and a deep minor league system. Like Mogul it has all the GM features like trades and drafts and whatnot. I've just been very impressed with OOTP, it is extremely deep and seems to have the ability to adjust just about every facet of the game. So far there have been less times where I've said "Jeez, they didn't get that right!" with this than BM.

 

It's also cool because I downloaded modified 2009 rosters from a forum and they are very accurate including acquisitions and 2008 draft picks. I definitely recommend that game if someone is totally bored, has a little money, and wants to get their GM on.

[Dojji]

Well what I'd really like to find is an online game that had the simple, intuitive pleasure of Baseball Mogul online. I've gone through SinDynasty (*shudder!*) Bush League Baseball (ehh...)and CSFBL (*barf!*) without much success. ALl of those games either departed radically from the real rules of baseball or in BLB's case never even seriously tried to adhere to them.

 

Most games seem to have this burning desire to overcomplicate things and make baseball this arcane something that isn't accessable to the layman. BMO was forced by its format to avoid that and be simple, easy to understand, and yet still capture the spirit of real GMing reasonably well (with some necessary compromises to the format). Their offseason sim for BMO is still the best i've seen in an online game. Far better than the desktop version's answer for the same. If they picked up a draft system like CSFBL or Sim Dynasty (all those two games had going for them IMO!) instead of just dumping players on teams it'd be the undisputed best browser baseball game out there.

 

I hear BMO is making a comeback in some form. Would be cool.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

You got OOTP? I tend to stick to Clay Dreslough's humble little Baseball Mogul franchise.

 

It has its flaws --a major one is that you can't switch a starter to a reliever or easily stretch a reliever out to start, a big issue with historical pitchers where their role has switched in the past like John Smoltz, Curt Schilling, Rich Gossage, or Derek Lowe, and even moreso with modern players whose roles are conroversial like Papelbon, Joba or Joakim Soria (or going the other way guys who would be better relievers like Eric Gagne or Mariano Rivera turned out to be).

 

 

Couldn't you just assign them to the bullpen and not worry about their actual position?

 

(I haven't played the game in question)

[Dojji]

Sure you can, but starters tend to have their Ratings overrated by a high Endurance score, which means their actual pitching effectiveness is dependent on their role. Because you can't go into some menu and say that you want to train the guy for relief, he will pitch in the pen as if he was a stretched out starter rather than getting the bonus that real pitchers like, say, Justin Masterson got in velocity and power when they went to the pen.

[Cocos Disciples]

Good thing The Show has the create-a-chant, now Fenway will be roaring "A-Roid" whenever Rod hits.

 

I'm such a dork.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Sure you can' date=' but starters tend to have their Ratings overrated by a high Endurance score, which means their actual pitching effectiveness is dependent on their role. Because you can't go into some menu and say that you want to train the guy for relief, he will pitch in the pen as if he was a stretched out starter rather than getting the bonus that real pitchers like, say, Justin Masterson got in velocity and power when they went to the pen.[/quote']

Its been a while since the MVP days. =/

[a-roid]

that is great

[msubulldogs21]

Good thing The Show has the create-a-chant, now Fenway will be roaring "A-Roid" whenever Rod hits.

 

I'm such a dork.

 

To do that all you need is a mic? Or would a headseat do the trick? I have neither.

[a-roid]

http://www.cafepress.com/eighthandbutler

 

Check out these shirts about a-rod, very funny

[Cocos Disciples]

To do that all you need is a mic? Or would a headseat do the trick? I have neither.

 

Not actually sure, I don't even have a PS3 yet.