SIM COMPLETE - 1985 - Regular Season 1

[Clay]

Waiting to see the sparks fly when Z gets here....

[Andrew]

- Orrin Brudenell apparently incited a brawl. He beaned Amato Albors after giving up a 2 run HR to the previous batter. He'll miss his next start.

This brings me to another gripe about suspensions... Are they always the same for pitchers and hitters? If so, that is very harsh for hitters. They gave Albors the same 6 games that Brudenell got. However, that's only 1 start for Brudenell. Usually you see a pitcher get 6 games and the hitters get 1-3.

[Clay]

Yeah... suspensions seem a little out of whack. We've already had more suspensions in ST and one week then the MLB sees in a season.

Season ending injuries seem to be up too.... or maybe they're just bigger names.

Aurillo did throw over 255 innings last year including playoffs though... that's crazy.

[rubisco43]

Good: I won 2. No major injuries. Relief is as good as I thought it'd be (except for 1 outing by Whisted).
Bad: I lost 4. 1-2 for both series. Starting pitching is as bad as I thought it would be.
Ugly: Team batting average of .219. That ain't gonna cut it.

First Tardiff, now Aurillo. Two of the most promising young pitchers in our league. I'm definitely taking my time with J. Wallace. I'm almost willing to wait until he's 22 to bring him up.

[Andrew]

At least they're not all 12-13 month injuries like they used to be. Markus needs to do some serious work on this injury system. The problem is there are CEI and SEI booleans in the injury.txt file. We have CEI shut off for reasons we discussed in the past. However, if you shut SEI off it doesn't allow an injury longer than 90 days to occur, regardless of the injury length range specified. But if you leave it on, it allows injuries of up to 13 months to occur regardless of that same range. If he would just take out the booleans and only use the range it would work much better because we could customize it to our liking.

[Clay]

At least they're not all 12-13 month injuries like they used to be. Markus needs to do some serious work on this injury system. The problem is there are CEI and SEI booleans in the injury.txt file. We have CEI shut off for reasons we discussed in the past. However, if you shut SEI off it doesn't allow an injury longer than 90 days to occur, regardless of the injury length range specified. But if you leave it on, it allows injuries of up to 13 months to occur regardless of that same range. If he would just take out the booleans and only use the range it would work much better because we could customize it to our liking.

Or be able to adjust injuries independently.

Like make Day-to-Day and Normal injuries AVERAGE in frequency, but set the SEI to BELOW AVERAGE or less common in some way. I mean, bottomline is almost every team has at least one each season in the real MLB. It just seems like they all pile up here in the very beginning.

[Riverman]

At least they're not all 12-13 month injuries like they used to be. Markus needs to do some serious work on this injury system. The problem is there are CEI and SEI booleans in the injury.txt file. We have CEI shut off for reasons we discussed in the past. However, if you shut SEI off it doesn't allow an injury longer than 90 days to occur, regardless of the injury length range specified. But if you leave it on, it allows injuries of up to 13 months to occur regardless of that same range. If he would just take out the booleans and only use the range it would work much better because we could customize it to our liking.

I'm not sure what a SEI boolean is but I suppose I better hope it doesn't happen to one of my guys.

Off hand I would say there are too many season ending injuries to position players, not enough to relievers and I'm not sure about starting pitchers.

The injury system would be far more realistic if the length of most injuries were indeterinate at the time of the injury and you learn more as time passes. It is silly to know almost the exact length of injuries the day they happen.

[Lintyfresh85]

I suppose its good news that Jeff Franklin has come back strong... I don't think Aurillo will forget how to pitch while he's out.

[Jim]

At least you weren't the only one. I think Dallas was using a 1 man rotation.

Yep. I looked at the first game and Sanchez started. Then game 2 Valdes, my mop-up started. Game 3 one of my MR's started. By game 3 I realized something was wrong. I looked at my game and somehow I must've clicked too fast to change to a 5-man rotation and went to 1-man rotation. I can't complain too much...I went 5-1 like that and the 1 loss was my first game when I had my #1 starter in.

Or be able to adjust injuries independently.

Like make Day-to-Day and Normal injuries AVERAGE in frequency, but set the SEI to BELOW AVERAGE or less common in some way. I mean, bottomline is almost every team has at least one each season in the real MLB. It just seems like they all pile up here in the very beginning.

I agree. I've thought if it can't be tweaked that much in the game then we have a chart for all the injuries and categorize them as major, medium & minor. Based on the chart is how long they're out for. It was like a few seasons ago I had a guy fracture his knee and he was out 6 months. I did some research and most MLB guys who had the same injury were out 2 months. Seems like the game doesn't assign the proper time for certain injuries and there are way too many SEI.

[Clay]

VIRGINIA COLONIALS (2-4)

2-1 vs Batavia
0-3 @ Baltimore

The Good:
- Easily the most promising part of this week was the bullpen. None of my pitching was great last year, but my pen was miserable. It's only a week, but 11.0 innings of bullpen work yielded only 3 hits and 0 runs (earned or unearned).

- Magness and Arendondo both took losses, but pitched really well. Getting quality work from my 3/4 is going to be key.

- Rookie Outfielder Jerry Tracy hit safely in all 6 games going .333/.391/.619 with 2 HRs batting out of the 7/8 hole.

The Bad:
- Wilton Harcourt was invisible

- Cortez Barrera pitched like a 40 year old late pick-up

- Tim Murcott put up a strange hitting like for the week at .118/.421/.176. He's not hitting, but dude can certainly take a walk.

The Ugly:
- Too many mistakes. 6 fielding errors, 47 K's and 5 times caught stealing. Good teams don't play like this.

- Alberto Hernando was brutal this week with only 2 hits, 1 BB and 7 K's while playing in all 6 games! Add to that 6 stolen bases against him (he threw out just 2 of 8 attempts) and a passed ball and the Colonials could be scrambling to fill the Catcher position soon.

[Clay]

I'm not sure what a SEI boolean is but I suppose I better hope it doesn't happen to one of my guys.

Off hand I would say there are too many season ending injuries to position players, not enough to relievers and I'm not sure about starting pitchers.

The injury system would be far more realistic if the length of most injuries were indeterinate at the time of the injury and you learn more as time passes. It is silly to know almost the exact length of injuries the day they happen.

The booleans... well... I don't know their full meaning and usage... but from helping out on the Text Team for the beta testing... I know the booleans are what calls in the texts.

[Jake]

We could always go back and 'edit' injuries down to, say, two months.

[Clay]

4-2. I'll take it. 1 win from each O'Loughlin and Cafferty, as I had hoped.

Talk about some fast starts:


and Victor Gonzalez went 11/23, with 4 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR and only 2K's. I love this kid.

Good Lord....

<TABLE class=lpo style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=911><TBODY><TR><TD class=sl width=80>04-10-1985</TD><TD class=sl width=831>Goes 5-5 against the Mississippi Storm, with 4 2B, 1 RBI and 2 R.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=slg width=80>04-12-1985</TD><TD class=slg width=831>Goes 5-6 against the Sin City Gamblers, with 1 HR, 3 RBI and 5 R.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=sl width=80>04-13-1985</TD><TD class=sl width=831>Goes 5-6 against the Sin City Gamblers, with 1 2B, 1 RBI and 3 R.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=slg width=80>04-15-1985</TD><TD class=slg width=831>Wins the BLB DL Player of the Week Award.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

This Nickell kid could be Ichiro good....

[Riverman]

I know the booleans are what calls in the texts.

That makes it all absolutely clear.

[Clay]

That makes it all absolutely clear.

I knew it sucked... I think they are like data varaible that choose which class the text comes from. Like each injury is classified as either normal, SEI or CEI partially so that it can choose an appropriate text.

I'm not a programmer... I'm sales and marketing... I don't have to understand what makes the widget go... just that you really, really need one.