Posted by cheateduser on 7/5/2014 6:50:00 AM (view original):

Posted by hghsteroid on 7/5/2014 3:05:00 AM (view original):
     I have about a dozen active teams, and have watched for months as this website's so-called "Automatic Manager" consistently ignores and acts directly against the strict settings I have placed, such as the order of pinch-hitters, pitching relief specifications, player specifications as to base=stealing, management style specifications, and countless other instructions and settings I have made.
     What's the point of bothering to set all of these parameters when the website's "automatic manager" will simply ignore them.
     There is a much better historical fantasy website that I strongly encourage all owners to switch to:  it's called ImagineSports.com [www.imaginesports.com/bball], also known as Diamond Mine.
     Don't keep wasting your time and money on a site--this one--that negates all your investments of time and generates crooked outcomes.
     Build teams and have them played fairly, according to your instructions and settings, by switching to ImagineSports.com.

P.S.   Shockingly, unlike this website, Imagine Sports actually has an active and response customer service.

     I agree completely.  This website is not properly programmed to function effectively.  There are constant wild mistakes and errors.   Good riddance.

But it is ours, and we still  love it.

So here we see the endgame - this is trolling from another site. The only thing most likely to sustain our loyalty to WIS despite some real grievances. Thanks grayfoxx, I agree completely. 

I might have been tempted to look into this other site if another owner had suggested it in an honest way, but this insulting behavior is a turn-off instead- who wants to go to a site full of people that this guy is representative of? 

I am about to type something I never thought I would:

I AGREE COMPLETELY WITH ITALYPROF.

Yes, it deserves all-caps.

YES IT DOES ! (WE ARE ALL BOOGERLIPS NOW !) who woulda thunk it ? 

Seriously, the sad thing is that a lot of us want this new crazy guy to stay because these have been the most entertaining threads since Juggalosteve or whatever his name was. Not in that league, but entertaining !

I first started with Bill James' The Winter Game, when it was a play-by-mail enterprise. It eventually morphed into Diamond Mind, not Mine. I played quite a while there too, and it was fun, but more expensive than WIS, and uses career stats rather than individual season stats. You had to account for losing players for significant amounts of time due to injuries, which were random. You might get a full season of Mantle...but then again you might not. Having a solid bench was much more important than it is in WIS...here you know exactly how many PA you can count on, if not the productivity of those PA. I still have my Honus Wagner bust, designed by Bill James' wife for winning my first WS. And in my very first league, Keith Olberman had a team, the Boston Dead Sox.

Wow, I never heard of The Winter Game. Does it still exist? 

No...it eventually became a web-based game. The Winter Game became Bill James Classic Baseball, and then Stats purchased it. It used the Diamond Mind engine I believe. Imagine Sports now fits in there too. I have a bunch of seasons I bought for Diamond Mind. And now of course there is also OOTP. I have no idea what the OP here is trying to do.

The Winter Game was fun, you got a report in the mail once a week that gave you the box scores for the weeks games (I don't remember how many ran...21 I think). And the sim would sub guys in for you if players were injured. The other thing I liked was dynamic pricing. A new catalog came out once a year with salaries. No clones, and only single instances of players in a league. The draft order was random; owner one got all of his picks, and so on down the line. If a player you drafted was taken you were given salary compensation and the ability to draft a replacement.