Upcoming changes in Network Interface:
MATCH-UP page:
A page which will replace TEAM page as the link in YOUR TEAMS. This page will be accessed
only by the team's manager and will have all the information you need to prepare
for the current series including:
1. Lefty/Righty statistic pages for
your team and your opponent.
2. Status report on both teams and easy links to
all stats
3. Easy links to League FORUM so that you can report series
highlights to the league (optional).
4. A form that allows you to write a
short recap of the series for the soon to be implemented League News page
(optional).
5. Easy links to email your opponent about the your series.
6.
Link to schedule page, front office, profile, and all other Team
pages.
NEW ORG (League) PAGE:
We will be
splitting up the current ORG page in the following manner.
1. News page.
Will have:
Trade news
Recaps of that week's series (either filled out by
home manager or artificially produced).
Great performances for the week (3
homers in a game, 15 or more ks, no hitter, etc.)
Top ten batting and
pitching leaders
Standings (W/L pct and GB only)
2. Standings (full
standings) and Leader Boards page.
3. Team List with manager names and
email links.
The Left side navigation will include links to all ORG pages
as it does now.
LIVE
PLAY:
We
are thinking of going to ALL LIVE games later this year. This would mean that
games would be played only while on line and each result would get written to
the HOST as well as your hard drive. We will be surveying perpetual franchise
owners on this subject before implementation—possibly as soon as spring
2001.
The
chief advantages for the proposed change are as follows:
--Ability to
have one on one game play during play-offs.
--Eliminate lost games and
reauthorization (game reset) problems.
--Ability to view your team play on
the road.
--Ability to view any game being played on the system (out of town
games).
--Creation of a true "championship" environment
Possible
disadvantages:
--Games would be slowed down but probably no more than a
second per play result and could be less depending on speed of connection to the
Internet.
--Live games would clog manager's phone line and make a separate
line for Internet connectivity almost a requirement of participation for some
managers.
--For those who are attempting to participate with less than
unlimited usage from their provider, this feature would necessitate getting an
unlimited Internet connection.
This game
will allow managers to draft a team of their choice and play games against
preset MLB teams with statistics and ratings updated every week during the MLB
season like our Real Time leagues.
We hope to work a prize structure into this game and promote it on CBS
Sportsline. The game will bring in new managers and will also allow you the
option of drafting your PB team and practicing against a variety of
teams.
More options for Road Manager and PB
ROBOT:
1. More varied options.
2. Ability to specify starters for
every game while using default lineups.
3. Ability to set up specific lineups
for specific opposing pitchers.
4. Robot ability to maintain roster between
series will be programmed.
More Changes
in PB Game:
Some
of these changes will be made soon, others later. We will determine priority by
your responses to upcoming surveys, weighed against ease of development of the
improvements.
1. More varied events and less repetition of events within
game.
2. Correct curve ball deliveries producing fast ball results
(oops!)
3. DH rule correctly implemented. Currently, you can not negate the
DH rule in PB.
4. Ability to move and save location of offensive and
defensive command lines (pitch/hit/etc.)
5. Add some visuals to follow home
runs, injuries, etc.
6. Add some game sounds (can be turned off in
preferences).
7. Improve the look of the players in the game. Glove on
correct hand, correct size, skin color etc.
8. Control of base runners by
home manager.