Either the commissioner of a league should be able to write in players for the end of the year voting (Cy Young, MVP etc) or the AI nominated players logic needs a bit of tweaking.

In one of the worlds I'm in (Gibson) Dolf Palmer hit the triple crown for the NL yet wasn't even on the voting ballot. Meanwhile Jose Almanza makes the ballot playing in left field with 20 homeruns and 73 RBI's.

Quality of Life / Bug fixes:

1. You MUST fix the bug within both draft settings, with your prospect list resetting with any changes to your draft settings. In the Rule 5 Draft, how is possible to know your "rankings cutoff" until you actually rank them?????
2. Immediately NEED to fix the problem with full injury recovery even IF the player recovers in the offseason. Currently, absolutely makes no sense why a players can only recover if the DL is completed during the season or if you are lucky enough for the long term injury to last until the beginning of the next season and you can 60 day DL them again.
3. Add 2 more filters within the free agent list. And maybe adding Lefty/Righty bat or Arm and maybe an age limit or show no "Type A".
4. I really, really would like to see on a PC and on a phone, the top pane frozen on any list you are looking at. And maybe even the 1st 4 rows on the left side could also be frozen. But at the very least, the top row with all the ratings. This is extremely annoying scrolling up and down to make sure you are looking at the correct row.
5. Add the Tandem 5 to pitching
6. Add Days to the DL list. MLB has a 7 / 10 / 60 Day DL.
7. Change Budget change limits to $5MM +/-. If you are in the middle at $10MM, it is realistic that it would take 2 seasons to completely overhaul a scouting department or training or medical department to reach the maximum. +/- $8MM is to much change from season to season.
8. I really like the suggestion of the Draft prospects appearing immediately after Budgeting. It would really give you a better idea if it's worth resigning someone.
9. Signing ML coaches to 2 or 3 year contracts? And coaches asking for a promotion to the ML should be starting out at the minimum or a little over, not a salary of a veteran ML coach.
10. Fewer Type A players. They seem to be strictly based on overall ratings and not on output. Either way, there are way too many Type A players.

I believe the first 5 are really necessary for Quality of Life and the rest would be nice changes in the Quality of Life.

Most people don't enjoy the coach hiring process. For me, I typically don't mind doing the extra work if there is some type of added benefit. However, assembling an outstanding mlb coaching staff doesn't have a transparent enough impact for the extra work to be worth it. I think I have learned a lot about this game, but I still don't fully understand the discipline, patience, and to a certain extent strategy ratings for coaching. I think I might have a good idea, but I'm not certain.

If there was some type of transparecy that showed the impact that my 93+ pitching rating coach had on my mlb pitching staff, I might feel differently about coaching. At this point though, I would not be surprised if many owners just wait for the final hiring cycle to find the cheapest guys with 75+ ratings and just save money.

The only exception is the fielding coach. If the fielding coach is good, there is a noticeable impact across the entire organization.

Posted by tlowster on 2/4/2021 9:21:00 AM (view original):
Most people don't enjoy the coach hiring process. For me, I typically don't mind doing the extra work if there is some type of added benefit. However, assembling an outstanding mlb coaching staff doesn't have a transparent enough impact for the extra work to be worth it. I think I have learned a lot about this game, but I still don't fully understand the discipline, patience, and to a certain extent strategy ratings for coaching. I think I might have a good idea, but I'm not certain.

If there was some type of transparecy that showed the impact that my 93+ pitching rating coach had on my mlb pitching staff, I might feel differently about coaching. At this point though, I would not be surprised if many owners just wait for the final hiring cycle to find the cheapest guys with 75+ ratings and just save money.

The only exception is the fielding coach. If the fielding coach is good, there is a noticeable impact across the entire organization.

Pretty much nailed it. This is exactly how I run my coach hiring every season.

I figure there are 1 of 2 ways to go about doing this if there was to be a major overhaul.

1) ML coaches either assist or take over for what the training budget would be responsible for. So if you have a 93 pitching coach and a 90 bullpen coach all of the sudden your 38 year old pitcher with a makeup of 23 isn't siphoning out ratings as fast as he would be if your coaches were only 80 and 75 respectively.

2) The other option is the coaches give players a 'boost' depending on their ratings. So a pitching coach of 90+ gives all pitchers a +2 to all pitching ratings (this would be behind the scenes and wouldn't reflect on your player ratings) on your team. Your first and third base coaches not only give players a boost but also make your base running aggressiveness closer to what you put the manager setting as. If you had base running coaches with a rating of 30 each and had your base running and base stealing set to conservative maybe they don't know what that means and your guys try stretching a single into a double way too often. A better bullpen coach means the right bullpen pitchers get sent out in the right scenarios (yes. I know that is the manger decision but the game can take some leniencies)

I'd be up for the ML coaches to have a larger role in the actual game in some capacity as well as player development. It would justify spending $2+ million on some of them.

Also I just realized HBD has never had a World Series MVP trophy before. Is that something we can program in the future?

Maybe that is where the impact is less transparent. If I consistently have an mlb hitting coach that has 90+ in a hitting rating, when my 19 year old is up for spring training, maybe he develops 3 points in contact and split at age 19, 2 points in contact and split when when he is age 20, and maybe 2 split and 1 contact when he is 21. However, if I consistently had a hitting coach with a 75 hitting rating, maybe the player only gains 1 or 2 points in the first spring training, 1 point in the second spring training and one point in his third spring training.

I dont know if this is true, but even if it is, i can't confirm it because all we have is the year to year development as opposed spring training development. If these high priced elite mlb coaches are having this kind of "over time" impact to young players just by spending 18 game days with them each season, it would be nice to know that. If they do have that impact just in spring training and you start to do that math (3-4 extra points of contact, 3-4 extra points of each split, 2-3 points of batting eye) over the course of the first three seasons. That can be a huge difference of 11-15 points total. I am a big believer that every point increase in contact, split and eye is a point increase in obp. If this is the case, the extra 11-15 points in OPS over a career of multiple players has a huge impact.

But again, I dont know if this is true and I cant benchmark a player against himself. I would have to find a similar player on another team that played a similar amount of ST games, but under a coach that is significantly better or worse than my coaches.

I would be a fan of a line-item budget for franchise coaching, maybe separated by role (Hitting, Fielding, Pitching). I just don't enjoy the process over 6 levels, especially without having a good handle on what it's doing. Keep it simple and let my brain work elsewhere.

Another thing about coaching I would like is added transparency to exactly what about coaches affects DITR frequency and bump. Ie. what ratings, what level of coaches (does having a better Low A coach give me a better chance at getting a Low A DITR, and does that affect his boost? If so, what rating(s) defines better?).

Posted by jwynkoop2424 on 2/3/2021 12:59:00 PM (view original):
Quality of Life / Bug fixes:

1. You MUST fix the bug within both draft settings, with your prospect list resetting with any changes to your draft settings. In the Rule 5 Draft, how is possible to know your "rankings cutoff" until you actually rank them?????
2. Immediately NEED to fix the problem with full injury recovery even IF the player recovers in the offseason. Currently, absolutely makes no sense why a players can only recover if the DL is completed during the season or if you are lucky enough for the long term injury to last until the beginning of the next season and you can 60 day DL them again.
3. Add 2 more filters within the free agent list. And maybe adding Lefty/Righty bat or Arm and maybe an age limit or show no "Type A".
4. I really, really would like to see on a PC and on a phone, the top pane frozen on any list you are looking at. And maybe even the 1st 4 rows on the left side could also be frozen. But at the very least, the top row with all the ratings. This is extremely annoying scrolling up and down to make sure you are looking at the correct row.
5. Add the Tandem 5 to pitching
6. Add Days to the DL list. MLB has a 7 / 10 / 60 Day DL.
7. Change Budget change limits to $5MM +/-. If you are in the middle at $10MM, it is realistic that it would take 2 seasons to completely overhaul a scouting department or training or medical department to reach the maximum. +/- $8MM is to much change from season to season.
8. I really like the suggestion of the Draft prospects appearing immediately after Budgeting. It would really give you a better idea if it's worth resigning someone.
9. Signing ML coaches to 2 or 3 year contracts? And coaches asking for a promotion to the ML should be starting out at the minimum or a little over, not a salary of a veteran ML coach.
10. Fewer Type A players. They seem to be strictly based on overall ratings and not on output. Either way, there are way too many Type A players.

I believe the first 5 are really necessary for Quality of Life and the rest would be nice changes in the Quality of Life.

#8 - I'm guessing they don't show until 40ish games in since theoretically you would want the most updated scouting report of a player? What if you have one edition of the board pop up after budgeting, then the board updates the usual 40ish games in? The board can update (ratings or players), and the difference in ratings depends on your scouting budget.

Here is a classic example why they MUST come up with a way to lock in a minor league player, either in the starting lineup or starting rotation. Over the AI's doing. Maybe making it possible to lock in a couple players at each level. I cannot stand watching a high level prospect riding the bench, deactivated, or as mopup because someone else as a high obscure rating.

My AI has https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/PlayerBlog.aspx?pid=10265674 with a projected overall of 55 and splits of 28/41 starting over https://www.whatifsports.com/hbd/Pages/Popups/PlayerRatings.aspx?pid=10310241 with current and projected overalls of 70 and 84 and with current splits of 56/78. Simply because the Jose has a higher stamina. That makes no sense at all. I have to constantly go back in and put him in the rotation, over and over again.

Posted by pray4pro on 2/4/2021 12:57:00 PM (view original):
Another thing about coaching I would like is added transparency to exactly what about coaches affects DITR frequency and bump. Ie. what ratings, what level of coaches (does having a better Low A coach give me a better chance at getting a Low A DITR, and does that affect his boost? If so, what rating(s) defines better?).

There are some very smart guys on here who have figured out the ditr and how to farm them on a seasonal basis. Some of which have down so well they draft players knowing they will be ditr. They routinely get ml quality ditr's.

one more feature request...instead of "quick links" at the bottom-right of the World Office page (which we can get to thru the top-nav) a Notes box would be great...it could even be the same notes from the bottom of the Edit Roster page, but it would be great to see the notes on the main page.

How about a tab under trade search that allows you to search for players youd be interested in based off certain attributes like you do for Free Agency? An example if i need a Power hitting younger player i should be able to use categories along with age to find players that meet that criteria... rather than looking through each team roster to find someone I like!

Posted by jbugg08 on 2/5/2021 10:37:00 AM (view original):
How about a tab under trade search that allows you to search for players youd be interested in based off certain attributes like you do for Free Agency? An example if i need a Power hitting younger player i should be able to use categories along with age to find players that meet that criteria... rather than looking through each team roster to find someone I like!

+1

Posted by jbugg08 on 2/5/2021 10:37:00 AM (view original):
How about a tab under trade search that allows you to search for players youd be interested in based off certain attributes like you do for Free Agency? An example if i need a Power hitting younger player i should be able to use categories along with age to find players that meet that criteria... rather than looking through each team roster to find someone I like!

+1000 lol. So much time wasted looking for specific player types