Amaroq
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Joined: 8/3/2005 From: San Diego, California Status: offline
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There actually used to be named Managers and named Scouts in PureSim 2003, I believe, and they were taken out due to the added complexity of processing time. The implementation (then) was very basic: a Manager had A-F ratings in how they managed Pitchers, Hitters, Veterans, and Youth development, with impact on happiness, player development, and player aging. A "better" manager cost more of your budget; likewise a better scout. Unfortunately, this just meant that you hired the best manager or scout that you could, period, without much thought about the cost. ... I do love (and have posted extensively on, both in this forum and in the old pursim.com forum) the idea of named managers, giving them an impact on the game not by their effect on the development of players, but by their tendencies: how often they steal, hit+run, intentionally walk... basically everything that we currently set via the "Mgr / GM Preferences" screen. I'd take that a step further by having young (newly generated) managers 'copy' the most successful managers of the era, and I think you'd wind up with manager tendencies evolving over time as they may have historically. (This sort of 'breeding' of future managers is sort of based in the idea of 'genetic algorithms' for AI - and I think it would help the AI-controlled teams to 'learn' from what is successful for human-controlled teams). I'd also love for the game to use Lahman's list of managers to draw names for managers (in a 'historical' league), or for the game to use former players (in a 'fictional' league), even sometimes former minor-leaguer-only players, with a link to 'playing stats' from the manager card. One question that would have to be answered is "What about players who prefer to manage the games themselves?" - I'd love to see them be able to create their own manager, essentially playing as "Manager / GM" rather than just "GM". ... And of course, any time Steely Glint and I agree, you know the idea is golden.
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