BasebaLL Mogul Online 3.0!
Alright people it's that time again! Figured that with season ending we could use a nice distraction from the boringness of the offseason and what better way to do that then starting back up our BMO leagues. The rules are pretty straight forward but if you have any questions feel free to ask in the threads!
Minor Points
- I don't really feel like having to deal with being a commissioner so if somebody else wants to do it then that would be just great.
- Old users should be able to reclaim their old teams first, then returning users who wish to claim new teams get priority and then finally new users will be able to pick from the remaining scraps.
- The Rays are impossible to win with so don't pick them.
- We should probably get a separate forum going again.
- Yes this is horribly addicting. No you don't need to be able to spend hours a day in front of a computer to be good at it. I've built dynasties by micromanaging every little detail and I've built a dynasty while backpacking across Scandinavia with 15 minutes of internet access every 5 days.
- A season generally takes 7 days real time. The first season we will take it slow for the new players then crank it up to speed when people get the hang of it.
- There are a few know players from the last run through that create super glitchy stat lines that we will need to cut through.
- Seriously don't pick the Rays no matter how amazing you think that you or Evan Longoria are.
- Fake Baseball!
- It's Free!
Link for the LLeague
Password is kingfelix
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I'd like to claim a team.
Can I get some more details? Is it a 30-team league, or just AL? Do you manage waivers (and by extension the 40-man), your minor league systems, and ticket sales? Ultimately, how does the experience compare to OOTP?
Also, can I have the Rays?
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
All 30 teams. You do have a minor league system, but not really a 40 man roster.
Players can be moved up and down freely. Ticket pricing is a big part of the game as you cannot resign players if you have no money. Never played OOTP, so cannot answer that.
OK.
Is the player universe all current MLB and MiLB players? Also, I did not really want the Rays. If I have a choice, I’d prefer the Cardinals.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
It does start out using real players all the way through your system.
Then after season one ends it begins generating fake players for the draft.
I think it uses 2009's Opening Day rosters.
Also Fuzz had the Cards previously and wants to keep control of them.
San Francisco?
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
BMO is a massively dumbed down version of OOTP but I think it makes it much more enjoyable because all of the useless bullshit is missing.
Useless Bullshit?
You mean like the giant injury bug in OOTP 11 that gives Franklin Gutierrez a career-ending injury in 2012? And every one of your players a month-long injury? You almost have to be in commissioner mode in order to dumb down injuries.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I should point out that their are occasional hilariously large bugs in BMO but considering what you are getting for free they are easy to overlook.
John Bowker was the opposite. He hit like .400+ with all doubles and homeruns or something like that.
There's a doubles joke in here somewhere.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Oct 4, 2010 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
This is why you cheat
…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell
by Marinerfanjake on Oct 4, 2010 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I would like to play again now that I spend like 20 hours on the internet every day
I would like the Giants or Padres if you’ve already claimed the Mariners and no one else has them
I would like to go with an AL team this time around if possible.
Spent all of the last league in the NL, ready for a change. Don’t much care who, aside from the Red Sox, Yankees or Rays.
Alright Figgers! The league is now set up. If you go to baseball-manager-online.com and search for the league it is called Lookout Landing League 3. The password is kingfelix. Go claim your team!
Also the settings are as follows.
-30 injury frequency
-30 injury severity
20 league revenue
30/20/10 promotion scale for the minors
These are all on a -100 to 100 scale.
Are we allowed to make trades with the computer?
The whole voting on trades thing was rather cumbersome.
Maybe. I haven't really decided yet but as of now, yes. Don't start trading though, we still have to discuss the concrete rules.
On that note, does anyone know where I should start a forum for this?
I can't find the league!
Is it under Free or Premuim?
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I would also like to play.
I do not know what team I want because I am still confused as to what the hell this is. But I love participation.
I'm still waiting for BMO to send me a confirmation email.
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 4, 2010 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
You might not get one.
I never did. When you hit submit, some text comes up on the screen below the notification that a message will be sent to you. There’s a hyperlink in the text along the lines of “confirmation”. Click on that and you’ll be in.
No matter where you go, there you are.
For those who are new, you can set how much you spend on your farm system,
scouting and medical staff. Last time we set a cap at 20 million for any of those expenses. If you go over the commissioner will reduce it for you.
I'd like to join in if all the teams aren't taken yet.
Since the Mariners are taken I’ll take my adopted hometown team and play as the Royals.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Still waiting for my confirmation email!!!!
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Me too! Although I don't think everyone is rushing to get the Royals.
No matter where you go, there you are.
I picked Texas
I feel a bit dirty doing so but they’re one of the few other teams I know anything about.
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Smoak has the potential to be a below average player with below average power. Smoak was projected to develop into a major-leaguer. But he’s been a disappointment so far.
I'll be back then.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Why are we letting Kirk be the commissioner?
doesn’t this league have mandatory drug testing for owners?
by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 11:29 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs
We're not here to talk about the past.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I probably should have thought about it being 2009 Opening Day rosters before taking the Royals.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Go to the forum to talk about trades and other fun shit.
The forum is here. Make sure you bookmark it.
I'm back, if there's room for me
I think I’ll be able to actually follow this, and hopefully the weird little glitches have been addressed. I hated having Justin Morneau obliterate the record for walks in a season all the time
Thanks for the endorsement
Now, which team to pick… Are we balancing budgets for everybody, or is this using “real-world” income/expense?
by tootthekazoo on Oct 4, 2010 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I was the Twins last time, but they're claimed
I’m St. Louis instead
Yeah, uh...I did.
Robert texted me about this in the morning, asked if I wanted St Louis again, I accepted and will throw a shitstorm if I don’t have access to them
I notice that the league is set to run at 6AM EST
Is this going to be bumped to a more normal time or are you just trying to cater to the Professor?
I can't log into the forum with my bmo username/email.
Do I need to get an account on Lefora?
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
Yeah.
Also, it helps if everyone changes their avatar to the logo of the team they own.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 4, 2010 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish I had even a left side.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Use the BMO provided forum to discuss trades right now. We'll continue cuts and free agents when Lefore is back.
Can you link to it? I can't seem to find it on the home page.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Oct 4, 2010 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Are there any spots left?
I’ve played Mogul for years, I love it. Never done an online dynasty though.
I'm signing up right now
"How do you think my anus feels?"-House
by seattle_since_81 on Oct 4, 2010 1:25 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
How many seasons are we looking at playing?
No matter where you go, there you are.
I saw some talk that we can trade draft picks.
Is this correct?
No matter where you go, there you are.
Never mind.
I asked this while the forum was down….I see it now.
No matter where you go, there you are.
I signed up
I wanted Philadelphia but I’m guessing someone already has the rights to them. I just went with Arizona.
Never mind, accidentally joined the original league,
I’ll take Cleveland and be a punching bag. Let me know if Someone already has them.
by spencer peaty on Oct 4, 2010 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I look forward to our yearly battles for 4th place in the AL Central.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Sounds good
But my organizational 5 year plan is to make it to 3rd place one year. Hefty goals, I know.
by spencer peaty on Oct 4, 2010 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
My plans revolved around Billy Butler and Zack Greinke.
Unfortunately the Opening Day 2009 ratings for both leave a little to be desired.
No matter where you go, there you are.
TRUST THE PROCESS
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Baseball Mogul does not appear to place much faith in "The Process".
No matter where you go, there you are.
I'm surprised Aaron hasn't threatened to throttle you yet, Robert.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I've never done this before or anything...
Just signed up though. I took the Pirates. I’m not really expecting to win anything, and they are my favorite team other than the Mariners. 2009 rosters aren’t quite as exciting, though….
I’m just wondering, why do the Mariners show up on my drop down menus as “Seattle Seahawks 34, Panthers 14”?
I can't really think of anybody to cut, so I may just roll with things as they are.
Markakis is my highest-paid player, but he’s also the best by a sizable margin. So, I’ll roll with it in lieu of taking a chance on crippling the watchability of my team
You're over budget though.
I’d find someone to get rid of.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 4, 2010 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
But it's the American way!
Yeah, I know. I’ll have to figure something out. Mora can go maybe, I guess
If there is a team left, I'd like to do this.
I’ll take whatever as a team, as I’m sure the M’s, Twins, and Giants are already taken.
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
Tried to sign up.
It wouldn’t let me. Must be full.
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
I just refreshed the page and it says there are 19 human and 11 computer players
Should still be room.
I already have an account. I wonder why it won't let me view the league.
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
What's the name of the league?
I’ll try to search it.
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
I had to turn off "ones you can join" in the search field.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Signing up, taking Toronto.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
The stupid forum is displaying weird in Chrome
User names run off the left side of the page so I can only see the last couple letters. Anybody else getting this?
Forgive me if I've suddenly regressed into some form of techno-retard,
but where exactly is the link to create an account at lefora?
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Nevermind!
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
I just took the Reds.
Now, to go get Jose Lopez.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Also, does the game still do that thing where anyone you put in the minors will suck forever?
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Fuck you.
Robert sure is stupid because he could have gotten a bidding war up in this shit.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Also, if anyone cares, teams that are still available.
Boston, Both Chicago teams, LAAA, Oakland, Phillie, Houston, and Milwaukee.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Let's give this shit a whirl
I’ve got the White Sox and starting 3rd baseman Jim Thome (why hasn’t this been fixed yet?!)
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
2009 rosters.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Why don't I have permission to join the league?
Also, I seem to only be able to find an old LLeague if I search for it.. Help?
Just joined as the brewers.
Who wants prince fielder?
So how loose can we play these rules?
Because I can see someone signing every great player possible for one year/infinity and taking the $$$ reset after year one and going full rebuild with the enhanced cash from postseason/jump in tickets.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
In other words, is it going to be common to see every rebuilding team put 20/20/20 and run a huge deficit the first year, waiting on the reset?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I dunno, I'm the rookie here.
I just saw the hole that would give me a leg up on rebuilding, and wondered if it was unethical in the scope of the league.
Honestly, I’d say the 20/20/20 is the bigger question.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
It's already done. Otherwise people like you would go out and sign guys then resign them for less.
If you want to sign a guy to a one year deal then you can but he must become a free agent at the end of the season, otherwise you lose him and some money.
The fact that I understood so little of this comment does not bode well for my chances.
by Eyeball Kid on Oct 4, 2010 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Kirk has said he'll reset everyone's cash to $1M after the first season
so you have no real incentive to not just run up a huge deficit in your first year because you’ll be bailed out
I did that so that players with teams like the Yankees where the budget does not reflect real life budget so you're totally screwed after the first year. There are more teams like this too.
Some people, no matter how hard you try, are going to end up in the negative after the first year. I just proposed a new rule on the forum so go check it out there. It should combat this a little bit.
Understood, but a leg up is a leg up.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
And if you're planning on rebuilding anyways...
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Maybe instead of telling everyone you are looking for good, young, cost-controlled players
you should note if you are NOT looking for young, cheap, good players
Depending on the answer to my question above, I'll let you know ;)
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
There's still time to destroy everyone as an Astro!
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
He said he can't get back in to it because of his attachment to his players last time was so great that the fun would not match it again.
I PMed you on the forum.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Just jumped in as Houston.
Let’s see if I can repeat the success I had with Atlanta in the last league!
So wek. I hate it when this happens.
I originally reply early to the OT thread implying interest, but when the actually thing gets set up I’m away from the computer all but a few fleeing moments of the day and get back too late. Fucking lame.
Son of a bitch
Mariners/D Broncos/BSU Broncos fan in Seattle
The first rule of Lookout Landing is...
If I take the Nationals, can I move the back to Montreal and make them the Expos?
"How do you think my anus feels?"-House
by seattle_since_81 on Oct 4, 2010 7:18 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Awww, I knew I should have signed up this afternoon but I chickened out.
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
If any places happen to open up, I would love to join.
"Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback."
D'aw.
I would’ve liked to try this, but I have no idea what the fuck I’d be doing. Maybe if a second one opens up or something.
Yeah, it's been quite a flake hasn't it?
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 5, 2010 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions
If there's a simple way to port the forum to an outside site, davidjcorcoran.com should have the bandwidth to host it
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
SMF For Free is pretty good too from what I understand as far as free forum software is concerned
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
I'm guessing because if we flood that one, then our team sites go down too.
Also, it doesn’t have avatars that identify what team you are. But I agree, let’s use a different forum.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
I also haven't been able to load it.
Any other good ideas for a forum?
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
We can always use the actual BMO message board.
I recall the reason we didn’t the first league is because they didn’t give us a board. Then in the second league, we stuck with Lefora because we’d already used it before.
I don't check LL for a day and this happens.
I ran Baltimore and some other team in the previous LL leagues. I’ll check in on the league from time to time to see if anything opens up.
If anyone wants to drop let me know.
I’d like to be a part of this.
2010 Safeco Field Record: 2-1 ; Overall Safeco Field Record: 12-5
So how do injuries work on this?
Nelson Cruz will be out 7 days, do I have to manually replace him in the line-up or will it automatically put someone from the bench in?
This is why I decided to quit playing.
These player bugs have been in the program for a long time now and they’ve refused to fix it.
You're dead to me.
The Marlins are better at dumping players than you.
They better be, they’ve had lots of practice.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I was trying to do that too to a certain extent
Unfortunately I put an overly competitive team on the field
Why must Greg fucking Norton kick ass so far as a starting right fielder?
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Few more questions.
If a player is a 77 will that change season to season or do people stay at the same rating?
Also can a players projected ceiling (like 75++ or whatever with an 89 ceiling) ever change? Or does a prospect stay the same once they are on the team
It depends on your scouting.
Your scouting gets better as you go along if you have money invested in it. One of my players went from 78+ to 68+ to 77 in 6 days.
Wait, so, if, for example, I had really good scouting and somebody else had horrible scouting
And I were looking at Joe Catcher 66/99 on their roster, they could potentially think that Joe Catcher was a 50/60?
I guess the question is do the valuations vary from team to team? If there were differences in our scouting budgets, for example, could I go look up Atlanta Braves and see Jeff Francoeur as a different value than you do?
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
They don't swing that much.
But yeah, everyone will view everyone differently depending on your scouting budget.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Based on scouting budgets, they'll shift 20 points of current talent and 40 points of potential?
What’s the point of this then?
Ratings are ± 1
CIN Scouting = A-
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
That's based on farm system (even moreso after the first season)
If you have a good farm system, and you leave certain players down to develop long enough, their ceilings will get higher.
Are we just going to use the BMO forum then?
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
Anyone else having trouble with Lefora right now?
Because we’re rebels. Accurate, intelligent, introspective rebels. And damn proud of it my friend. - CapSea
For those of you in this league who have not done so,
please go to the Lefora forum and vote on the new budget rule.
SB, I want my draft picks!
Check your trades.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray

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