A few suggestions:

1. Team Rankings by real life stats.
- Check every team's stats in the preseason. Especially useful in one-season progs.

2. League Leaders by real life stats.
- See above.

3. In progs and multi-season themes, Team Rankings by all seasons (a feature already available in League Leaders).
- Check to see which team in a multi-season league hit the most home runs, had the best ERA, etc., in a single season.

4. Team Rankings and League Leaders for single games.
- Which team hit the most doubles in a game, or stole the most bases? Which pitcher had the most strikeouts in a game, or pitched the most innings?

5. League Leaders for the playoffs.
- Let's see who the top hitters/pitchers are in the post-season.

I've been sending Admin tickets for these for a while now. If you agree with any or all of these ideas, please copy and paste them and send a ticket, too. Thanks.

Well, I'm getting the generic auto-response now. When I suggested these previously, I actually got a human being telling me they were good ideas. Too bad, I think all of the above would add a lot to the WIS baseball experience.

More-

- Increased sortability. When checking out Career stats you're locked into the top 25. I would like to be able to scroll down past that. Also, if you sort by, say, Career Batting Average the top level gets plugged with a bunch of people who don't really belong.

For instance, this is from a 14-season progressive. I'll list by BA/AB.

Ty Cobb .375/7832
Mike Kingery .357/476
Joe Jackson .352/5933
Tony Gwynn .343/7483
Claude Ritchey .343/535
Todd Helton .333/606
John Knight .331/501

The only players on that list who count are Cobb, Jackson and Gwynn. The others are out of the league and clogging up the top spots. It would be nice if there were a way to set the sort by command. For instance, filter out the players with fewer than 2500 BA.

Forgot one that I've always felt should be included - team shutouts. As it is now, if you have more than one pitcher in the game but the other team doesn't score any runs there's no team credit for the shutout.

They should put a view league rankings tab or something while on your team page. for example...

92 Bip Roberts AVG .367 (5th) RBI 102 (14th)...

That would be way cool

"2. League Leaders by real life stats."

I just noticed that for a league that I'm the commish of, I can view every player's numbers by sortable stats -- not just the top 25, but every player in the league. If WIS can make this viewable to commishes, why not to everyone?

I'm certainly not opposed to any of these things, but I wouldn't put any of them anywhere near the top of my list of suggested SIM improvements. There are many other things I would like to see WIS do/fix first.

I would like to be able to sort WW players stats similar to when you are drafting your team...

Quote: Originally posted by contrarian23 on 5/05/2010
I'm certainly not opposed to any of these things, but I wouldn't put any of them anywhere near the top of my list of suggested SIM improvements.  There are many other things I would like to see WIS do/fix first.

Well, they're simply changes I'd like to see to improve the Team Standings/League Leaders pages. My focus is pretty narrow here.

And these are things I've been pressing Admin about for a while, and changes that I believe a) many here would appreciate and b) wouldn't take a whole lot of effort for Admin to implement.

I'm not talking about overhauling the SIM engine. I'll leave that to the brainiacs on the site...

Agreed. I'd like to have these things. But just as an example of something that I would find much more valuable, I'd like to have WIS automate as much of the keeper/available process as possible for progressives. Right now this is a process that requires a ton of work and is fraught with errors (not to mention anger when a mistake happens and people disagree over how it should be handed.)

I'd also like to have a way to sort player's entire careers by various stats - and even to generate some of my own metrics to sort them. For example, I use a relatively simple metric to rank players in a progressive draft. But it's not a "sortable stat" in the database, and it requires the player's entire career in order to generate it. It's not complicated, and it's something that would be relatively easy to include if there were room for 1 or 2 data fields that I could define based on other existing WIS stats.

This would also be hugely valuable for progressives and would dramatically shorten the length of time it takes to prepare for a draft.

Other things I'd like to see that aren't changes to the SIM engine per se:

• park factors to 2 decimal places (we all know that all +1 parks are not created equal.) I'd like to see 1.12 versus 1.45 for example.
• Similarly, 1B/100#, 2B/100# etc to 2 decimal places
• The difference between the # stats and the unnormalized stats - with the ability to sort by them (so I could sort for, say, all players whose hr/100# exceeded their hr/100 by 1.5 or more)
• The ability to sort by RRF (the number, not the grade)
• The ability to sort by catcher's CS%, rather than throwing arm

Another thing I'd like to see is Team Rankings for all of your own past teams. I'm not a tech guy so I don't know how complicated this would be for WIS to implement, but I'd love to be able to sort all of my old teams by total wins, home runs, etc.

And while we're at, why not League Leaders among all your former players? Which pitcher won the most games for you, which batter hit the most triples, etc. It would be great to sort by both single-season and career stats.

Quote: Originally Posted By sheller on 5/05/2010 Forgot one that I've always felt should be included - team shutouts. As it is now, if you have more than one pitcher in the game but the other team doesn't score any runs there's no team credit for the shutout

I would like to see this stat, too. Team total shutouts should not be too difficult to calculate. And viewing league team pitching stats should have the total times the opponents score zero, not the total number of complete game shutouts.