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Getting unmanaged teams games played on Thurday or friday. Also getting the deadline to play games

to Monday at 5pm. It would be much easier to  have an extra day to make roster changes and lineups. 

I would like to see that the Tuesday deadline for games to be played be enforced.  It is Tuesday night right now and there are a multitude of teams in probably all leagues that still have 3 and 4 games yet to be played.  If a managed team does not play its games on time the robot needs to step in and do it for them in a timely manner. 

Thanks,

Tim

C2 Black Sox

B14 Naturals

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Naturalsgm

Communicating the playoff schedule and sticking to it. This is a tough time of year for scheduling and when you make time to play your games and they're not ready on time, that is a problem. Also Mike, your email address keeps coming back as invalid. It's important that we're able to contact you.

You say what you want to do. You NEVER do what you say. Schedules are not met, the RT championships schedule is WAY over due. Great game, HORRIBLE managment. I for one had better start seeing some changes after 8 years or I'm gone in search for a better managed game. No more excuses, they are repeated, old ,and tired. And NO, an off the counter website package is not an improvement; this is not even done properly.

I would like to see the game updated.Make it visualy more appealing for new customers.Screen shots of the actual stadium you're playing in.Possibly sound added- crowd noise- umps calling out strike three-crack of the bat-national anthem, which could be turned off or on manually.In other words when a new customer see's and hears  Purebaseball he will want to immediately give it a try.Then the game play would sell itself afterwords.

Jerry,

         Those all sound like good suggestions but shouldn't we get the adhering to a schedule and basic communicating with the customers stuff right first?

That's very very important.Just wanted to add something that may not be mentioned.

If possible, do a revision on the play-by-play so that it more accurately portrays the events that occur. ( Please help in this area, since I lost hundred of baseballs that curved foul into the seats preventing HR's and my outfielders are still bruised from crashing into fences all seaeason long (expensive ball costs & medical bills plus fence repairs).  Also, It would be appealing to improve the game field view during the games, possibly up-date the game code, start the season a little earlier, get the draft lists on the site (Spring Training is just around the corner & watching all the MLB winter fan events break attendance records tells me the interest in baseball is heating up)......................

 

Stan

Good question, what is important to you regarding PB. Here goes:

• Publishing and adhering schedules for all phases of the PB year. If the schedule can't be adhered to then a timely message should go out explaing why we're off schedule and when we'll get back on track
• Better advanced scheduling. People are busy with work, business trips, vacations etc., so schedule events far in advance. I'm sure Mike has things sketched out inn his own mind, let's communicate that to the managers: The rookie draft will be March 6, Opening day is April 5, whatever. This would be a big help.
• PB bills us year round so let's do what it takes to make PB a year round hobby. Publish the rookie lists soon after the championship series are done. Publish the rookie draft order at the same time or soon after. Make PB stats available so the geeks among us can play with them during the offseason.
• If we do these things we can move on to marketing PB and getting more new managers involved.There are between 6 million (http://www.athomeplate.com/fanvmlb.shtml) and 15 million (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1109128216973) people playing fantasy baseball, can it really be that the sub-set who would like PB is 158 people?

However, all the marketing ideas and improvements won't matter if PB doesn't establish a core competency and a better customer service culture.

 

Absolutely nothing new here but, as I tell my kids, I only repeat myself when there is zero visible evidence anyone heard me the first time.

What is important to me is that the game stay as close to realism as possible. There are some things about this game that leave a lot to the imagination. How is it that almost 70% of the teams have losing or .500 records at home? Why draft players based on stats for that year when they don't come close to those stats? Where is the weather aspect of the game? I have tried to get people to come to this site to play and help clear up some of these unmanaged teams, but after watching for awhile, they don't stay. They state that the game doesn't add anything that other non-paying sites don't have.

Rybman:

How is it that almost 70% of the teams have losing or .500 records at home? 

I went through all my teams that have 10 seasons or more and I had 4 teams with this standard, played 7040 games and ended up 76 games better at home over the road.  Considering I rest guys at home and play my better guys on the road, seems normal.  Remember that home field advantage in the MLB is the crowd and not having to travel.  My computer players don’t gain or lose this advantage. 

Rybman:

  Why draft players based on stats for that year when they don't come close to those stats?       .

Kevin(user Kez) has been nice enough to post player averages accumulated from all the traditional leagues.  When you take an average of a players stats from all these leagues, the stats are where they should be taking into account we are in 20 league teams (results in 5-10% drop in total stats).  That info can be found here:  http://70.79.78.18/PB/2006stats/index.html

 

Rybman:

Where is the weather aspect of the game? I have tried to get people to come to this site to play and help clear up some of these unmanaged teams, but after watching for awhile, they don't stay. They state that the game doesn't add anything that other non-paying sites don't have.

I’m in other leagues, two to be exact.  I use DMB for those two leagues.  The stats are both 95% accurate for both game systems. 

Playing home games, having up to date usage, immediate roster changes, easy trade offers, immediate changes to standings after playing a game, away instructions on a game by game basis and a robot manager that is much better than DMB’s are all in PB’s favor.  DMB offers salaries which is fun(main reason I belong to those leagues).

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KenG