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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:45 pm 
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Nobody plays ALL 162 games. They usually simulate the regular season and play in the playoffs.


What if your team doesn't make the playoffs?


Then you don't have enough skills. :P


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I don't understand the appeal of a shortened season mode. If you don't want to sim because it messes with your stats, what would be the point of playing a 20, 50, or 81 game season when the stats would be equally irrelevant to a real season?

When I did my first 10 year franchise with St. Louis, I had created myself as a starting pitcher in Success Mode and joined the roster. Going through the regular season I would live play the games when my turn in the rotation came up, and would sim the rest. That amounted to 25-30 games played per season, which was only about 12-15 hours of play time if you take an average of 30 minutes per game. Throw in another handful of playoff games and we're not talking about a huge time commitment to get through a season.

My current approach to Season Mode is to play every 7th game. Since I'm using a 6 man rotation like the game is designed for, pitching every 7th game means that I'm using a different pitcher each time and working through my rotation several times as the season progresses. Keeps it a bit more interesting than just using the same starter each time. Playing every 7th game means I'm playing 23-24 games in the regular season, which takes even less time than above.

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It took me less than 2 months to finish all 10 seasons, granted I only played 20 or so games.

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It took me a weekend to finish 10 seasons :)
Well I wouldn't exactly call it "finished" because I edited the stats in the edit player section ^^;;; to see how they decay.


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Also if you are beating them by like 10 you can fast game it and you dont have to play the rest of the innings

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 Post subject: Re: I Hate This Game
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:33 pm 
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I completely agree. I don't see the appeal to having such a short season and theres already so many modes (three more in the next game) that the last thing they need is another one if its going to be so simple and useless. If you really want a shortened season, just play the first 30 games of the season. Why not give Success Mode a try? Its almost as fun if not funner then season mode.
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