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Originally Posted by ChaseB:
All right, so Franchise Mode is looking a bit sketchy, at least at first looks.
I simulated through a season and one seriously odd trade happened (Ryan Howard and parts to Marlins for Josh Johnson and Ricky Nolasco and parts). But, otherwise nothing too crazy happened. Stats didn't seem too out of whack but saves seemed rather low and error numbers were out of whack to name a few oddities but I wasn't focused too much on stats.
I simulated through the off-season and went to the next season, only to notice that Manny Ramirez, Matt Holliday, Garrett Anderson, Griffey, Sheffield to name most of the major names who were FAs.
I then simulate to the next off-season and I notice:
Lincecum, Fuentes, Slowey, Percival, Blackburn, Smoltz, Homer Bailey, Kuo, Lindstrom, Mauer, (Holliday, Manny, G.Anderson Sheffield -- all still FAs from year before), Maybin, Conor Jackson, JJ Hardy, Tejada, Dukes, Kubel, Iwamura, Headley, Mora, etc.
All free agents.
Now, I haven't dug into this too much but it seems to stem from teams not having enough money. A quick look through the payrolls and every team either has at most 4 million in payroll or is in the negative in terms of funds. I don't know yet if this is because teams are overpaying or because the cap isn't going up enough, but it's certainly an issue either way.
You can control all 30 teams now so I suppose you could find workarounds, but just a heads up. I'm going to simulate again to see if it continues to happen.
Originally Posted by ChaseB:
All right, so Franchise Mode is looking a bit sketchy, at least at first looks.
I simulated through a season and one seriously odd trade happened (Ryan Howard and parts to Marlins for Josh Johnson and Ricky Nolasco and parts). But, otherwise nothing too crazy happened. Stats didn't seem too out of whack but saves seemed rather low and error numbers were out of whack to name a few oddities but I wasn't focused too much on stats.
I simulated through the off-season and went to the next season, only to notice that Manny Ramirez, Matt Holliday, Garrett Anderson, Griffey, Sheffield to name most of the major names who were FAs.
I then simulate to the next off-season and I notice:
Lincecum, Fuentes, Slowey, Percival, Blackburn, Smoltz, Homer Bailey, Kuo, Lindstrom, Mauer, (Holliday, Manny, G.Anderson Sheffield -- all still FAs from year before), Maybin, Conor Jackson, JJ Hardy, Tejada, Dukes, Kubel, Iwamura, Headley, Mora, etc.
All free agents.
Now, I haven't dug into this too much but it seems to stem from teams not having enough money. A quick look through the payrolls and every team either has at most 4 million in payroll or is in the negative in terms of funds. I don't know yet if this is because teams are overpaying or because the cap isn't going up enough, but it's certainly an issue either way.
You can control all 30 teams now so I suppose you could find workarounds, but just a heads up. I'm going to simulate again to see if it continues to happen.
Originally Posted by Bahnzo:
Greeeaaat! Let's hope that can be patched and quick. Not a total game killer, but certainly something those of us who want to play in franchise mode will hate.
No online game tonight yet?
Edit: And what does this say for 2K's testing group? How could you possibly miss something like that?
Originally Posted by ChaseB:
Looking at season 3, it gets worse not better:
Pujols, Longoria, Beltran, Adrian Gonzalez, Berkman, Ryan Howard, Stephen Drew, Jay Bruce, Felix Hernandez, Broxton, Ziegler, Chris Young, Josh Johnson, etc.
Teams still have no cap.
Going to start a new simulation now.
Originally Posted by ChaseB:
No, Bryan didn't get his copy tonight. Hopefully tomorrow.