Merry Podmas!

[AndyP]

Thursday at 1pm central time GB, Jmaine, and I will be hosting an FCM podcast!

If anyone else wants to join let me know, but we'll hook it up via talkshoe on Thursday. Hope you listen in!

[JMaineD]

Glen Milton's run at offensive history?
Rise of the AL West
Fall of the NL West
Darkhorse WS picks?
Possible chatter on team/players of the decade (2060's)
Disappointments aka Mets

[AndyP]

Current run sheet:

1) Draft thoughts

2) Standings - NL West collapse, rising AL West, contenders and pretenders

3) MVPs, Rookies of the Year, GMs of hte Year

4) Mogul's deficiency about player positions. For example, elite shortstops that play second like a tire fire. CFs that are terrible in LF and RF. If we're in this for the long haul (and I am) perhaps we can manually fix one of the worst parts of mogul. Maybe each year, post-draft, we allow teams to choose two players that can have positional flexibility added to their predicteds. It shouldn't effect their ratings much at all.

My idea is to create a formula in which we take a SS, say his defensive ratings are 86-90-94 and if he plays second he receives a boost up because he's going down the defensive spectrum (say, 90, 92-94). Or perhaps an elite 2B with 92-92-92 rating could move up to SS but his ratings there would be something like 85-85-85.

I'd like to at least talk about the pros and cons of that so that teams don't have to be so rigid about where they play people. Or at least talk about the reception towards it. Just a brainstorm and nothing more.

[mattynokes]

I love the secondary position stuff. It's a big negative to Mogul 14 and would enhance player's values (especially in the draft) if we knew they have positional flexibility. I would also like to think we could consider making RPs more realistic.

As everyone should know, if you take a SP and put him in the pen, it's tough to get Mogul to recognize them as a true RP. Even then, they only get their Endurance as low as the 40's. Some are stuck in the 50's and 60's and even a few that no matter how long they're in the 'pen, they are forever stuck at 70 Endurance. Mogul just doesn't use starter Endurance RPs correctly.

The whole thought on these ideas for me would be to make it cost cash and to have them done in the off-season. At least for my RP idea, it's easy. Tripling their predicted Games will drop them into the 20's or 30's Endurance.

[AndyP]

I'm on board for that conversion thought process as well. Obviously we'd have to work out a lot of details on both angles, but I'd like to see the game played more "real life" and less hampered by terrible coding.

To me this would mostly be for CFs to play competent LF and RF and for LF/RF predicteds to be close to one another. Also for 2B/SS/3B to have more flexibility.

I wouldn't want to do much with catching or 1B unless there is a clear suggestion that makes sense.

[AndyP]

Run Sheet:

1) Draft - Overall quality, the Top 10, Picks we liked/didn't like in Round 1, Sleepers to watch for

2) Current Season - Division by Division look, MVP/CY/ROTY contenders, Look at the last decade, amazing seasons in the works, early playoff predictions

3) Discussion about editing fielding/relief endurance

[chrisveley]

I have been away for a handful of seasons, but the one draft I've seen since being back seemed much weaker that previous ones.... now maybe that was because a way was found to fix an overabundance of talent that people had, maybe it was just a weak draft?

Maybe make the top 10 a little stronger, or is there a way to make the ratings less accurate, so there is a possibility that top draft picks can wash out, and later 1st rounders can actually be huge steals? It happens is real life.... add a little more chance to it.

As for messing with players 2nd positions.... I say leave it. it really complicates it. and do we really need to complicate it?

[gillyd]

It was a weak one Chris, haven't seen one like this in a while.