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Rather than spend his time trying to make this game appeal to ATG folk, I would like to see Bernie spend his time improving the interface for the people who will really be playing it.

So, with that in mind, here are some of my suggestions to improve the mystery card aspect of the game:

1) When the season is over, we get a reveal of the cards in the FA pool, so that we not only know which cards we have, we can see which cards were correctly and incorrectly dropped.

2) Maintain the "last 10 games" window on a card when it is sent to the FA pool. That can be really helpful in assessing a player (i.e. for a RP, did he give up 5 runds in 1 outing but pitch 8 scoreless innings besides that, or did he give up runds in 5 consecutive outings).

3) This is my big one, Put all injuries on LoMax! I hate that there are injury reveals. It would make the game far more challenging and interesting if all reveals were based on your intuition and experience in looking at the cards. Injury reveals detract from the concept of the game. I hate seeing guys get dropped after the first serie when they have an OPS of 1.200 because of a bad injury reveal. Let determining when to drop and when to hold be purely a metter of skill.

There are more, I'm sure, but these are my thoughts. I think if you improve the mystery componant, you will add more sales than if you water it down to attempt to draw non-mystery people.

[quote:9ed892a808]3) This is my big one, Put all injuries on LoMax! I hate that there are injury reveals. It would make the game far more challenging and interesting if all reveals were based on your intuition and experience in looking at the cards. Injury reveals detract from the concept of the game. I hate seeing guys get dropped after the first serie when they have an OPS of 1.200 because of a bad injury reveal. Let determining when to drop and when to hold be purely a metter of skill.
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No no and some more no. Can't get into the multitude of reasons why today as I am moving my office tomorrow so I am busy packing up, but please don't change this.

I would be completely against making all of the injuries generic. Looking through the box scores daily for clues is a big part of the fun of playing the mystery card game. The sleuthing adds a dimension to the game...it does not detract from it one bit.

I also would be against making all the injuries the same.

I don't think TSN could do this anyway as aren't we using the actual SOM cards and SOM decides where to put the injury, not TSN.

My $.02

1) please be able to sort free agents by LHB and RHB. as well as Pitchers byLHP and RHP. It would be nice to pull it up by platoon splits, but it is not as necessary.

2) Keep the list of Gold Glove winners, Silver Sluggers, MVP, and Cy Young winners available. Final cumulative team stats are also nice, as it is now once it goes to the playoffs you cannot see the Regular season MVP.

I too hate the Injury reveal idea, the others are also good

OK, I knew the injury reveal one would be controversial, and understand why people like it, but I personally rather not have it. I like sleuthing via LH/RH bias, types of hits, etc.

Here's another one I forgot, which I think is a good one: On the FA list, add a column for games played. I.e. if a guy had not been on a team yet, it would say 0. If he had, it would show the number of games played. That would save a lot of hassle going though the FA list of RP's, for example, seeing which ones had been dropped and which ones were fresh. It would help to have # of games rather than a straight yes/no because some pitchers get dropped after 3 games and some get dropped after 40, and that make a difference in who you are going to be interested in.

If you really want to spice up the game, change the player's year when he is traded. We actually might see some trading activity.

[quote:09db44029d="TomP"]If you really want to spice up the game, change the player's year when he is traded. We actually might see some trading activity.[/quote:09db44029d]
What are you some fanti-simer? That is a BAD idea. Trade would become meaningless.

i agree with the "last Ten" games being on the FA listings, and I would like
to have the All-Star results and MVP/CY Young results left open after the
season is completed..........BUT DO NOT CHANGE THE INJURY REVEAL IN
ANY WAY..........That would ruin it for me......

In addition to some of the good suggestions above, I would like to see the transactions time/date stamped and kept all the way back to game 1.

And how about an injury log? You can see the red [color=red:f07740bc11][b:f07740bc11]I[/b:f07740bc11][/color:f07740bc11] for players who were dropped while still injured, but some are dropped for an injury reveal but have "recovered" from the injury. The log could have the game in which the injury occurred and how long the injury lasted. That way, if someone wanted to research it, they could do it much easier.

Also, the fantasy baseball over on Yahoo has a waiver process that I kinda like. Dropped players spend 3 days on the waiver wire and the manager with the highest waiver priority gets first crack at those players. Whoever claims a waiver successfully goes to the bottom of the priority list and works his way back up as other managers make waiver claims. The manager who drops a player can't pick him back up until he clears waivers. That's how it works over there.

I've discussed in other threads how to keep the injuries as they are and still keep the cards a mystery. Apparently it's incomprehensible because no one else has even commented on it.