Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Here is my wish list, which is specifically geared toward our private league set up, but also apply to my wishes for public leagues. If some of these options are already available please let me know.

1) in private leagues, allow custom division set up and league size. For example, our league would like to have 2 divisions of 8 teams with the top 2 from each division making the playoffs.

2) limit player usage to their actual at bats and innings.

3). Allow custom roster sizes. (ie; our league has a 40 man roster, with 25 whom are active at any one time and 15 who are in the "minors"

I agree with limiting players at bats and innings to within 10% extra or so--the solitaire leagues I play on my own computer are much more fun this way, and stats are closer to actual performance, also those guys like the 1968 Gates Brown card are used as pinch hitters---the computer game is easily set up this way.

I like the two-division idea a lot, although I'd go one step farther and limit the post season to the two division winners. After all, we don't get extra TV money from more playoff games, so why not get this back to the way things used to be - I'd even be good with no inter-division play in a 16-team league.

I'm ambivalent about limiting players to their historical at-bats or innings-pitched. The difficulty for me is that we're not re-creating the original seasons, and we don't have the same rosters, so we could very well get stuck without enough at-bats or innings-pitched on the roster to complete the season. It just seems like it would turn the game into more of a job. I can see the desire, but I don't think that level of realism is what I'd enjoy.

As for the 40 man roster, yes, definitely. It would make the use of more injury-prone guys viable, at least once in a while. For keeper leagues I could see how it would improve options for making trades, too. I'm sure it would need some fine-tuning so that people wouldn't abuse it, but it seems like having a specific limit on options to the "minors" would work just as well as it does in the real world. That's my two cents anyway.