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Real players or Fictional


Real Players
  51% (29)
Fictional
  48% (27)


Total Votes : 56
(last vote on : 1/19/2008 4:18:58 PM)
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Real players or Fictional - 12/23/2007 2:38:18 PM   
puresimmer

 

Posts: 2299
Joined: 7/24/2005
Status: offline 		Which player types do you typically play with, real or fictional?

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/23/2007 5:55:52 PM   
SirWolf1960

 

Posts: 124
Joined: 8/20/2005
Status: offline 		I find that I use PureSim to escape reality. Fictional allows me to create stars that never existed. When Albert Shinn wins 3 straight MVP's, I had no way of knowing in advance he would be a stud. To me, that is perhaps the best part of this game, discovering your own stars.

Steve

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/23/2007 7:18:53 PM   
Nukester


Posts: 472
Joined: 7/3/2006
From: Newburgh, NY
Status: offline 		I enjoy both, but 90% of the time I play historical real players

< Message edited by Nukester -- 12/23/2007 7:19:52 PM >

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/23/2007 9:59:06 PM   
Frozen Stiffer


Posts: 1059
Joined: 8/19/2005
From: California, USA
Status: offline 		Fictional.

I have a real-player association going and I really enjoy it, but my love is truly with my fictional run. There's something about the "newness" the "unexpectedness" of literally meeting a player, getting to know him, then watch him grow as he improves (or implodes) throughout the game and throughout his career. Good times, good times.


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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/24/2007 6:15:38 PM   
DonBraswell


Posts: 384
Joined: 8/24/2005
From: Millbrook, Alabama
Status: offline 		I play both. But I find that I expect too much from real players. With fictional there are no expectations.
Don

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/25/2007 1:31:26 AM   
throttle8


Posts: 168
Joined: 4/8/2006
Status: offline

Real !!!!!!!

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/25/2007 8:44:39 AM   
KG Erwin


Posts: 8981
Joined: 7/25/2000
From: Cross Lanes WV USA
Status: offline 		For me, using the real players is not an escape from reality, but a reasonable illusion of reality. That's just me -- one foot must always remain in the real world. It's a philosophical thing. Besides, I really don't like those fictional cartoon-character faces. Sorry. I love those real-player photos.

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 12/25/2007 11:45:06 AM   
throttle8


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Joined: 4/8/2006
Status: offline 		KG,

I agree. You can't beat those real player photos!!!!

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/3/2008 2:01:55 AM   
GNDN


Posts: 179
Joined: 6/25/2007
From: Albany, NY
Status: offline 		I like real until they all retire. Then I get a kick out of the fictional guys as I search for the ones that will break the real guys records!

Can I answer both?

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/3/2008 8:34:24 PM   
jeremy7227


Posts: 161
Joined: 1/24/2006
Status: offline 		I answered real and I am definitely a historical player. What I find troublesome is that when I want to restart an association I have to redo the ballpark assignments and player pools or import a template that maybe has some setting in it that I want to change (like roster size, # teams, etc.) but I want the team settings and player pool from an old assoc.

So I recently decided to try fictional players. I am liking my association and it seems much harder to win consistently and also to predict player performance without the aid of baseball-reference.com ;-).

I am playing a fict now but I favor real players by a long shot.

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/3/2008 9:49:19 PM   
JudgeDredd


Posts: 8573
Joined: 11/14/2003
From: Scotland
Status: offline 		I have no idea which I play with...stock from the game plus an addon IIRC, but tbh I don't care because I don't know any baseball players....but I most definitely understand why people would want proper players.

What I would like most definitely though is proper pictures...helps with the immersion.

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/3/2008 9:57:00 PM   
jeremy7227


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Status: offline 		JD -
I was reading through my SABR (Society of American Baseball Researchers) newsletter archive and I found a small item that was interesting.... Photographs of 15000 of the 16000 players to have played baseball from 1871 - 2006 have been indexed and catalogd.... One month later less than two dozen players had yet to have a photo discovered and cataloged.

I would love to have the time to find, scan and include those into the game directory. Imagine a real photo for EVERY player in the Lahman DB?!?


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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/4/2008 1:03:43 AM   
RedArgo


Posts: 524
Joined: 8/2/2004
From: Illinois
Status: offline 		I like real players on redrafted teams.

Bill

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/4/2008 4:47:04 AM   
Beach23BoyP

 

Posts: 288
Joined: 8/20/2005
Status: offline 		I play with real, but I think fictional is perhaps more fun and a better challenge. I should wise up.


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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/5/2008 8:37:46 PM   
kennsing

 

Posts: 14
Joined: 7/15/2006
Status: offline 		Gotta go with fictional. I played a full century of historical and the hindsight factor made it easier. Nothing like assembling a team of all-time greats to win 40 championships.

With fictional, it is more challenging.

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/12/2008 5:38:43 PM   
RedSoxFan67


Posts: 15
Joined: 8/13/2007
From: Los Lunas, New Mexico
Status: offline 		Begins with real players and watched how the association evolved to fictional players from 1900 onward to the 2000 plus ... to see how real players coincided with their real stats and to see how the fictional players carrying on the burden of equalling/bypassing the stats of yester-years ... can't wait for the next software of PureSim ... It's a game where one can lose themselves (as I have from the inception of Earl Weaver's) into the infancy of childhood's fantasy of "Sandlot" ... ..

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RE: Real players or Fictional - 1/13/2008 4:07:11 AM   
CrashDavis

 

Posts: 307
Joined: 7/5/2006
Status: offline
quote:

I like real players on redrafted teams.

Bill


Thats how I sim too, Bill.

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