OK, put aside the obvious - more frequent updates, faster response times, etc.  What intrinsic change would you like to see to the site?

One thing I've always wanted was a true variation on What If.  For example, what if Milacki had an entire season like his cookie year?  We know what it would cost, based on $/IP.  What if you could buy players based on that?  Here's a player, here's his IP (or AB)/162; how many IP or AB do you want to buy?  Think of the Bonds years, where he's hard to use for a full season because of all his walks; or Ted Williams's war-shortened year. Or even that great batter you love to use, but he's JUST a little short of AB to be a full-timer.

Again, given my druthers there are more important changes to be made.  But if I'm dreaming ... 

Ok I'll bite Pinot. I'm a dreamer, too. My dream is for MORE management control of game decisions. I believe (to increase realism) we need more settings/controls to influence "Sparky"s game decisions on the quite important TIMING of Pitching changes and pinch hit attempts, etc.  At the present "Sparky's" game decisions are too much "out of our control". "Sparky seems to always WAIT until just after the Pitcher has been nailed for a HR to make a bullpen call or switch of hurler. That's just nuts. It does NO good to change Pitchers after a HR when the bases are empty. You need to make the call before the HR, if possible. Having just the Pitcher controls we now have just does NOT adequately do the job!!  I'd have fired "Sparky" a long long time ago IF I could figure out who HE is!!   LB

More advanced settings and controls would be nice.  One idea that others have mentioned over the years is more individualized basestealing settings, where you can adjust an individual player's aggressiveness level depending on the opposing catcher's arm rating or CS%.  You could set a guy to 0 if facing an A+ arm or 50%+ CS catcher, 1 against an A/A- arm, 2 against a B arm, 5 against C or worse arms, etc.  I'm sure there are lots of other good ideas out there for specific individual player settings that could use some more advanced controls.

Make it open source and allow users to control site!

Posted by pinotfan on 9/25/2013 1:55:00 AM (view original):
OK, put aside the obvious - more frequent updates, faster response times, etc.  What intrinsic change would you like to see to the site?

One thing I've always wanted was a true variation on What If.  For example, what if Milacki had an entire season like his cookie year?  We know what it would cost, based on $/IP.  What if you could buy players based on that?  Here's a player, here's his IP (or AB)/162; how many IP or AB do you want to buy?  Think of the Bonds years, where he's hard to use for a full season because of all his walks; or Ted Williams's war-shortened year. Or even that great batter you love to use, but he's JUST a little short of AB to be a full-timer.

Again, given my druthers there are more important changes to be made.  But if I'm dreaming ... 

http://whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?TopicID=405196&ThreadID=8254876#l_8254876

I've proposed that idea a few times over the years. Nobody gets it.

Posted by laramiebob on 9/25/2013 12:00:00 PM (view original):
Ok I'll bite Pinot. I'm a dreamer, too. My dream is for MORE management control of game decisions. I believe (to increase realism) we need more settings/controls to influence "Sparky"s game decisions on the quite important TIMING of Pitching changes and pinch hit attempts, etc.  At the present "Sparky's" game decisions are too much "out of our control". "Sparky seems to always WAIT until just after the Pitcher has been nailed for a HR to make a bullpen call or switch of hurler. That's just nuts. It does NO good to change Pitchers after a HR when the bases are empty. You need to make the call before the HR, if possible. Having just the Pitcher controls we now have just does NOT adequately do the job!!  I'd have fired "Sparky" a long long time ago IF I could figure out who HE is!!   LB

The only way I can think they could program this is if a pitcher goes over his IP/G, regardless of pitch count or pull setting.  As each event is independent of each other, pitchers don't 'tire' like they do in RL, so there's nothing for Sparky to see to make him pull a pitcher.  Do you have a suggestion on how they could do that?

LOL.  Well, I'm pretty comp illiterate. Don't spell so good either.  I can't say about programming.  My only thought is more/additional settings/controls.   The 1 thru 5 settings for "removal"  (quickness to jerk)  is just not adequate in my view.  Set it a 5 and "Sparky" will pull the starter sometimes just because he gave up a 2 run HR, EVEN when that was his ONLY mistake.  I've had my SP jerked when throwing a 2 hitter (3rd inning) just because he gave up a HR, even though it was a 2-1 game. I've also experienced "Sparky" just NOT pulling a SP with a 4 "jerk" setting even though I would have liked him removed 50 pitches and 6 or 7 runs earlier.  There is just NOT enough settings and controls to allow US mgrs. to control pitching changes the way we'd do it!!   Same thing with pinch-hitting.  It needs to be OUR decision when to decide to make these kinds of game management moves.  "Sparky" is too formulaic and the decisions are sometimes COMPLETELY illogical and totally unrealistic because NO real manger would have EVER done what "Sparky" just did with that specific Pitching change, or NOT changing!!   I'm aware there is a "live" version here at WIS, and I most likely should play that and likely that would solve my issues. BUT, though I've tried to "check it out" and try the LIVE game, I can't even get it to go to the proper page when I've tried it. On my PC, the LIVE version just won't work. I tried getting help with PC issues from the site administarators, BUT that was useless. They have no interest in personal assistance. COMPLETELY unhelpful. So, I just gave it up.  I'm seriously considering searching to see IF I can find another website that allows a similar style of baseball management simulations and switch over to that, IF it's better and even exists, of course!!   LB

P.S.  I've only been here for just over a year. So, this is totally based on hearsay, HOWEVER, I've been told that this site was WAY WAY better run, and much more fun before it was sold to Fox Sports. So, there may be no solution and this site may be beginning a slow death. Obviously FOX don't give a damn about it.  We should ALL (in mass) jump to another sim site location, IF any of us can find a better place for our baseball management "jones".  That's just my (1 user!) opinion.