There is an on-line draft feature in the game? I did not realize that. Both SOM leagues I am in draft on-line each year, but we use other ways to do it.
Strat Draft only exists because Strat-o-matic has not adapted its draft feature to what the draft website offers. From the first year it was offered, the fixes look easy to do but the set of customers the game company speaks to about things is not the only user of the draft.
One thing that really needs an upgrade is the scheduling utility. It should include reasonable numbers of off days to accommodate the way real teams use starting pitchers these days.
I would like to see resizable card image in baseball and/or ability to make fonts bigger for card image. Would like to more color choices on fonts for the statistics box that shows actual total, rrmepkay total and game stats.
It would be nice for the software to allow one to manually enter player information from the Strat-O-Matic cards into the program for baseball seasons that you haven’t paid for in the software (i.e. entering the 1980s and 1990s Diamond Gems teams and players from the cards into the software, though I haven’t paid for the seasons in the software that those teams cover).
The cards in the windows game need to be like the real cards when you have a flyout or a single usually if its blank it goes to center field but it doesn’t match the real cards sometimes you don’t know who it went to
I’d like to see actual player salaries added so in leagues that utilize salary caps have it all contained within the game and not have to use an outside source like Spotrac to track & forcing managers to maintain their rosters on a spreadsheet
#1 on my wish list would be more aesthetically pleasing card images, similar to the ones available in the card viewer. Make it an add-on charge, so you wouldn’t lose the extra money.
I think optimizing the AI should override all other cutesy bells and whistles. Strat is a board game so if it is to be computerized then the computer opponent should be as strong as possible. only then should fluff be added.
I would like a rare play option that the PC game randomly puts the game into manual mode and allows the players to use their catalog of rare plays, and then assign hits errors, assists, etc. At the conclusion, the player then puts the game back in regular PC mode.
Options are good and life changes enable people to use things they might not now – so please don’t subtract features unless something easier and better is available. My biggest hope is for a mobile (iPhone, Android) version of the game that integrates with a windows/apple OS seamlessly.
Drag and drop function for the baseball loc file creator. A visible 100 percentile dice that can be set to skew less 1, 2, or 3 rolls on the batter card or for more rolls on the 4, 5, or 6 die columnn on the pitcher cards. Optionally to be used to normalize league stats produced by an all star created draft leagues.
League setup needs a wizard to make it easier and we need to have league filtering to be able to mask out or Un mask out seasons to make selection better when many of us have lots of authorized seasons installed. Scheduling templates that can be saved and teams assigned to. The game company could include a few, then the SOM community could build and share additional scheduling templates later.
Here’s my #1 wish list item – I don’t like programming CMs and always manage both teams – just like I did when all I played was C&D. The decisions that I find hardest to make objectively are baserunning decisions about trying to score or take an extra base (and this also includes the defensive decisons about cutoffs, etc.) How about an option to “Let HAL decide” whenever a baserunning decision has to be made? That would be a lot like basketball where you can let the PC decide what kind of shot to take.
1. I agree with a previous comment on click and drag for ball park locations.
2. I would like to see roster limitations for Sept (40 man roster) call ups be modified. Right now can only have 15 pitchers.
3. I would like to see an upgrade to HAL logic (how 25 players are chosen if more than that available) and then how the lineups are developed (too many times, default lineups include players NOT on the 25-man roster).
I feel like a dinosaur answering no to most of these questions but I’m a happy dinosaur. I appreciate the steps you take to bring in a younger generation to Strat.
As a long time computer player, I cannot thank SOM for all the work in making the computer product what it is.
Specialty sets, custom ballparks, card viewer app all have made my enjoyment of Strat exactly what I needed to play those fantasies that brings me back to being 11 again.
I’d like to see the click and drag feature for ballpark locations too. Also, I’d like to see the CHUM program functionality brought back to the windows game for use with the Career Historical disks.
Online drafting will only be good if its better than the SOM DRAFT site which is really good. For old seasons merge the 2 leagues into 1. I’d love to be able to look at a complete season without having to manage to independent sets of data (AL vs NL).
Customizable standard reports would be nice or at least modernize a bit. Standings with Elimination #’s, etc.
Modernize the game – bring it into the 21st century, Make a version for Mac.
I would like to see older ballpark stadium images. Huntington Ave Grounds for Boston. Exposition Park for the Pirates, etc. Plus Ballparks for the Negro Leagues.
Many of these features I would like to use, but I find the Help and Rules functionality cumbersome and not intuitive, so I basically ignore those features. And, honestly, I did not know about Chart Maker, Report Writer, Online Draft, or Game Replay. One of the leagues I am in tried the Cloud hosting. I loved it. It was SO easy. However, some owners did not like it or had issues with it, so we stopped, which is too bad. But, I wonder how much of these features are not used or used incorrectly because instructions and how-to’s are not great or nonexistent. If only there was a Windows game functionality instruction book as a PDF that was detailed and descriptive.
As a lover of baseball tradition, I enjoy using the Hero sets with the HOF set to build all time great rosters for each major league team. Would like to see a new Hero set that features more old time players.
Also – confused by ratings sometimes. Example: 1924 set, Zack Wheat – his greatest season, yet his fielding (arm) is poor and also his running seems subpar. Yet in the baseball 365 set, his ratings are more realistic – BUT he is rated better for right field than in left. As far as I know, he ALWAYS played left field. Don’t get it.
Finally – I agree – graphics need to be enhanced. This should be a priority. Look at what the gaming world is providing these days! Would add a lot of fun to the gaming experience.
The hit and run feature, needs some more explaining for input with the manual dice roll, I am only able to click on 4,5,6, for the white dice and 1,2,3 for the white dice aren’t clickable. So when i have a dice roll with a 1,2 or 3 ……. i play the 1 as a 4, the 2 as a 5 and the 3 as a 6 then input those, plus the total result of two red dice and click okay to get my result.
Just not sure how the batters ratings come in to affect well trying a hit and run mostly for the pre 1920 seasons.
Has anyone else tried this?
any suggestions would be nice.
I have two things I think could be improved: 1) the sacrifice fly in pre-1954 editions (1932-38, 1940-53) should not be tabulated in the statistics. In those years, it was simply a flyball, an RBI, and a time-at-bat. Didn’t become an official stat until 1954. 2) the rule enabling an individual pitcher to be charged with earned runs that didn’t count against the team total did not exist until 1969. Prior to that season, a reliever wasn’t charged with “individual” earned runs, no matter how briefly or ineffectively he pitched.
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I would like to see click and drag for ballpark locations.
Second that
I don’t use any of these options but I would like to try Netplay sometime.
Hi guys!
There is an on-line draft feature in the game? I did not realize that. Both SOM leagues I am in draft on-line each year, but we use other ways to do it.
Strat Draft only exists because Strat-o-matic has not adapted its draft feature to what the draft website offers. From the first year it was offered, the fixes look easy to do but the set of customers the game company speaks to about things is not the only user of the draft.
I only knew Strat draft on the internet never in the game???
One thing that really needs an upgrade is the scheduling utility. It should include reasonable numbers of off days to accommodate the way real teams use starting pitchers these days.
Absolutely agree, along with the option to insert an All Star break by specifying the dates.
Please upgrade 250 league transaction. Limit. Seasonal Stats are compromised when exceeding this limit.
Second that request
I would like to see resizable card image in baseball and/or ability to make fonts bigger for card image. Would like to more color choices on fonts for the statistics box that shows actual total, rrmepkay total and game stats.
It would be nice for the software to allow one to manually enter player information from the Strat-O-Matic cards into the program for baseball seasons that you haven’t paid for in the software (i.e. entering the 1980s and 1990s Diamond Gems teams and players from the cards into the software, though I haven’t paid for the seasons in the software that those teams cover).
Why would they make a way for folks to easily avoid paying them for something that they create and charge for?
The cards in the windows game need to be like the real cards when you have a flyout or a single usually if its blank it goes to center field but it doesn’t match the real cards sometimes you don’t know who it went to
Simplify setup and improve SH bullpen options.
For those who like watching the ball flight, the current animation is fairly basic. It could be fine tuned a good bit.
I would like to be able to sort team stats by different categories. Right now it only sorts by batting average and era.
I’d like to see actual player salaries added so in leagues that utilize salary caps have it all contained within the game and not have to use an outside source like Spotrac to track & forcing managers to maintain their rosters on a spreadsheet
#1 on my wish list would be more aesthetically pleasing card images, similar to the ones available in the card viewer. Make it an add-on charge, so you wouldn’t lose the extra money.
I wish it was possible to do manual entry like the very first version of the pc game, it was so easy then…
I do not use this that often as I was shifting computers and lost some of my stuff over the years which was my fault
please upgrade the graphic look of the computer game. It’s archaic and very difficult on these old yes.
I think optimizing the AI should override all other cutesy bells and whistles. Strat is a board game so if it is to be computerized then the computer opponent should be as strong as possible. only then should fluff be added.
I love report writer. Can’t wait until you add WHIP and WAR to it.
I would like a rare play option that the PC game randomly puts the game into manual mode and allows the players to use their catalog of rare plays, and then assign hits errors, assists, etc. At the conclusion, the player then puts the game back in regular PC mode.
Options are good and life changes enable people to use things they might not now – so please don’t subtract features unless something easier and better is available. My biggest hope is for a mobile (iPhone, Android) version of the game that integrates with a windows/apple OS seamlessly.
I would like an easier way to add games played manually with c & d to a computer season
Would love to click on the dice roll on the card image instead of clicking on 1-6 then 1-12 for the play result. When using the computer.
I second this!
Drag and drop function for the baseball loc file creator. A visible 100 percentile dice that can be set to skew less 1, 2, or 3 rolls on the batter card or for more rolls on the 4, 5, or 6 die columnn on the pitcher cards. Optionally to be used to normalize league stats produced by an all star created draft leagues.
I use the computer game mostly to compile stats.
How about IMPROVING the computer manager!!! It’s awful!
I agree on improving it, but I disagree that it’s awful.
League setup needs a wizard to make it easier and we need to have league filtering to be able to mask out or Un mask out seasons to make selection better when many of us have lots of authorized seasons installed. Scheduling templates that can be saved and teams assigned to. The game company could include a few, then the SOM community could build and share additional scheduling templates later.
Here’s my #1 wish list item – I don’t like programming CMs and always manage both teams – just like I did when all I played was C&D. The decisions that I find hardest to make objectively are baserunning decisions about trying to score or take an extra base (and this also includes the defensive decisons about cutoffs, etc.) How about an option to “Let HAL decide” whenever a baserunning decision has to be made? That would be a lot like basketball where you can let the PC decide what kind of shot to take.
1. I agree with a previous comment on click and drag for ball park locations.
2. I would like to see roster limitations for Sept (40 man roster) call ups be modified. Right now can only have 15 pitchers.
3. I would like to see an upgrade to HAL logic (how 25 players are chosen if more than that available) and then how the lineups are developed (too many times, default lineups include players NOT on the 25-man roster).
I would like to see the Diamond Gems added to the computer game
I feel like a dinosaur answering no to most of these questions but I’m a happy dinosaur. I appreciate the steps you take to bring in a younger generation to Strat.
Need better pinch hitting strategy options for the computer manager.
I agree if it can be done.
As a long time computer player, I cannot thank SOM for all the work in making the computer product what it is.
Specialty sets, custom ballparks, card viewer app all have made my enjoyment of Strat exactly what I needed to play those fantasies that brings me back to being 11 again.
I agree 100% with Bob—As a long time computer player, I cannot thank SOM for all the work in making the computer product what it is.
Please consider adding option to auto play by half inning, and into extra innings.
I’d like to see the click and drag feature for ballpark locations too. Also, I’d like to see the CHUM program functionality brought back to the windows game for use with the Career Historical disks.
Even though I don’t use certain features, I recognize their value. I play solo.
Fielding stats for traded players are not separated out per team. Also WAR needs to be part of Report Writer—sortable category of it’s own.
Need better graphics. Great graphics and statistical accuracy are not mutually exclusive
Online drafting will only be good if its better than the SOM DRAFT site which is really good. For old seasons merge the 2 leagues into 1. I’d love to be able to look at a complete season without having to manage to independent sets of data (AL vs NL).
Customizable standard reports would be nice or at least modernize a bit. Standings with Elimination #’s, etc.
Modernize the game – bring it into the 21st century, Make a version for Mac.
I would like to see older ballpark stadium images. Huntington Ave Grounds for Boston. Exposition Park for the Pirates, etc. Plus Ballparks for the Negro Leagues.
Drag and release ballpark locations. Game is great!
Many of these features I would like to use, but I find the Help and Rules functionality cumbersome and not intuitive, so I basically ignore those features. And, honestly, I did not know about Chart Maker, Report Writer, Online Draft, or Game Replay. One of the leagues I am in tried the Cloud hosting. I loved it. It was SO easy. However, some owners did not like it or had issues with it, so we stopped, which is too bad. But, I wonder how much of these features are not used or used incorrectly because instructions and how-to’s are not great or nonexistent. If only there was a Windows game functionality instruction book as a PDF that was detailed and descriptive.
As a lover of baseball tradition, I enjoy using the Hero sets with the HOF set to build all time great rosters for each major league team. Would like to see a new Hero set that features more old time players.
Also – confused by ratings sometimes. Example: 1924 set, Zack Wheat – his greatest season, yet his fielding (arm) is poor and also his running seems subpar. Yet in the baseball 365 set, his ratings are more realistic – BUT he is rated better for right field than in left. As far as I know, he ALWAYS played left field. Don’t get it.
Finally – I agree – graphics need to be enhanced. This should be a priority. Look at what the gaming world is providing these days! Would add a lot of fun to the gaming experience.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE 1930 BASEBALL UPDATED TO SUPER ADVANCED.
I PREFER OLDER SEASONS ( 1901 – 1970 ) TO MORE CURRENT ONES.
The hit and run feature, needs some more explaining for input with the manual dice roll, I am only able to click on 4,5,6, for the white dice and 1,2,3 for the white dice aren’t clickable. So when i have a dice roll with a 1,2 or 3 ……. i play the 1 as a 4, the 2 as a 5 and the 3 as a 6 then input those, plus the total result of two red dice and click okay to get my result.
Just not sure how the batters ratings come in to affect well trying a hit and run mostly for the pre 1920 seasons.
Has anyone else tried this?
any suggestions would be nice.
I have two things I think could be improved: 1) the sacrifice fly in pre-1954 editions (1932-38, 1940-53) should not be tabulated in the statistics. In those years, it was simply a flyball, an RBI, and a time-at-bat. Didn’t become an official stat until 1954. 2) the rule enabling an individual pitcher to be charged with earned runs that didn’t count against the team total did not exist until 1969. Prior to that season, a reliever wasn’t charged with “individual” earned runs, no matter how briefly or ineffectively he pitched.