Do you think we should know everything about how the game works?

Posted by timf on 12/22/2010 6:47:00 AM (view original):

You are right Mike, if they want everyone to have a shot at FA's taking out previous seasons record is a good way to do it. Part of me agrees with that logic but part of me also thinks that anyone in their right mind knows that realistically a FA will choose a winning team over a terrible team about 99% of the time. Whatever the case is, and I don't care what they do one way or another, they should have made everyone aware of the change. That is why I'm a little perturbed, all they had to do was add one line in their post about the update and this whole situation could have been avoided.

Here was the FAQ back in July, prior to the update (I rembered someone posting it in a previous discussion about a max guy in one of my worlds"

#761 Free-Agency Q. A ML free agent in our world has several contracts offered to him that are the same exact value. How is it determined who he will sign with?
A. When a free agent has multiple exact offers of any value at the ML level the tiebreakers are as follows: relevant IQs of the coaching staff and ballpark. If the players previous franchise is also bidding on him, then that franchise will receive a small loyalty bonus. When the coaching staff is used to break the tie position players will look at the hitting IQ of the hitting coach and the fielding IQ of the fielding coach. Pitchers will look at the pitching IQ of the pitching coach and the bullpen coach. In cases where the offers are still tied and the coaching staff has been factored in ballpark is used to determine which franchise the player will sign with. Pitchers always want to pitch in a pitchers park, while position players will always want to play in a hitters park.

No mention of previous season's winning percentage. I think it's entirely possible that it never made it into the game, or never made it into the FAQ if it was in the game.

Had they added a line in the update, you would have found something else to be perturbed about. It appears to be what you do.

i didn't read the first post, as it was too long. is he still ******** about people cheating by using excel?

No.   He wants to know if WifS knows how someone who looks like Billy Bob Thorton got to play hide the sausage with Angelina Jolie for awhile.

I mean, C'MON, MAN!!!

Something else that WIS has never publicized:

On the "Franchise Rankings" page, if you first hit the NumLock key on your keyboard, highlight the "push/pull" rating for your franchise and then hit CTRL-ALT-J-B, you will get a pop-up video of the WIS staff in Cincinnati signing "Jingle Bells".

I like the way you talk.

i like the way you move

I don't like spiders and snakes.

but that aint what it takes to love me



















the way i wanna be loved by you

You had to look that up.   Unless you're older than I thought.

Tim has a point.  They made a change (it seems) and didn't inform us.  I would be peeved as well.  Now carry on with the adolescent behavior...

Posted by timf on 12/22/2010 2:11:00 AM (view original):
Iain I'm not looking for anyone to blame and I don't care that I lost out on the guys. I got another guy I wanted instead and shuffled things around. But that is not the point. They said that loyalty was going to be added. They never said anything about taking previous record out of the equation, which I've shown from the FAQ section that it is indeed no longer one of the criteria used. That is the issue and anything else you take from what I've said is missing the point. Nobody else could tell me that they saw somewhere that this was going to be done so I can't be the only one that is more than a little surprised that this has happened. I will let everyone know the response to the ticket I issued if I ever get a real answer.

You thought you knew something, then found out via the FAQ page that what you believed wasn't 100% accurate.

I fail to see what part is WIS's fault.

Posted by MikeT23 on 12/22/2010 5:30:00 AM (view original):

Posted by timf on 12/22/2010 2:11:00 AM (view original):
Iain I'm not looking for anyone to blame and I don't care that I lost out on the guys. I got another guy I wanted instead and shuffled things around. But that is not the point. They said that loyalty was going to be added. They never said anything about taking previous record out of the equation, which I've shown from the FAQ section that it is indeed no longer one of the criteria used. That is the issue and anything else you take from what I've said is missing the point. Nobody else could tell me that they saw somewhere that this was going to be done so I can't be the only one that is more than a little surprised that this has happened. I will let everyone know the response to the ticket I issued if I ever get a real answer.

Is there any way possible that the FAQ was NOT updated when the engine was updated?   I think it's entirely possible that it wasn't.

Another legitimate possibility.

But that would remove the opportunity to ***** and moan, now wouldn't it.