I've made the request to support. I'll keep everybody posted as to what they say. I wonder if we'll all have anything to talk about once identifying AAA is no longer needed...

Agreed. Send them here if they have questions.

bump for new players.

Posted by point_piper on 7/9/2020 2:41:00 AM (view original):

Posted by tpistolas on 7/8/2020 3:31:00 PM (view original):
have we ever proposed to management simply removing the random name-generator for AAA? it's confusing for new players, a waste of time for everyone else, and does nothing to level the playing field or improve the simulation. I'm happy to make the proposal if nobody else has done so in the past? I can't imagine what the counter-argument may be...

Cosign.

I'm on board with this too. It's a pain to do, especially when you have a lot of AAA and thought you were only having a few, lol.

I agree with the rest of you.

If it's a theme league (the only kind that can have "a lot of" AAA) then this option already exists. Commissioners can - and I don't know why they ever wouldn't - elect to have AAA players assigned with real names...

Maybe they don't elect this option because they know that providing 80 players with fake names will result in many of the owners not going through the process of decoding each player, thereby improving (albeit slightly) their chance of defeating owners who may have great AAA options not being used.

I, for one, simply don't have the time during the day to decode each player. I now have a faster way, but it still takes some time - especially with 80 AAA guys. So I will (most likely) end up leaving some good players in the minors for the season.

Posted by contrarian23 on 7/28/2020 12:57:00 PM (view original):
If it's a theme league (the only kind that can have "a lot of" AAA) then this option already exists. Commissioners can - and I don't know why they ever wouldn't - elect to have AAA players assigned with real names...

i use the fictitious names because the names of the AAA players show up in the GMs office and if someone sees they have crappy AAA they can exit the league and re-enter their team in hopes of getting better AAA on the next draw

bump

I draft most of my teams with AAA in mind and have ways built into my roster construction to easily utilize my AAA players, if not outright rely on them.

so figures, that when I draft a team that has no use or easy way to utilize my AAA players that this is the haul I get:

		1B	2002 Greg Colbrunn	R	185	171	10	27	0-0	19-13	17.1	.333	.378	.626	B/D-	$1,693,087
		OF	1932 Earl Webb	L	406	363	3	51	1-1	18-39	112.7	.287	.361	.417	D+/D+	$2,174,397
		2B	1911 Charley O'Leary	R	318	270	0	25	10-12	23-21	256.0	.266	.336	.313	B-/C+	$1,695,748
		SS	1961 Bob Johnson	R	250	226	6	28	4-2	26-19	37.3	.295	.350	.442	C/A-	$1,887,717
		3B	2015 Andres Blanco	S	261	233	7	25	1-1	44-21	33.3	.292	.360	.502	B/D-	$1,738,486
		C	1977 Brian Downing	R	214	169	4	25	1-2	21-34	42.3	.284	.402	.402	C/B+	$1,726,529

SP/RP	2002 Scot Shields	R	5-3-0	49	2.20	.188	1.06	5.51	3.86	0.73	30-21	$1,436,774
		SP/RP	2012 Aaron Cook	R	4-11-0	94	5.65	.304	1.47	1.91	2.01	1.44	20-21	$1,266,415

bump

one thing seble says is AAA is based on the real named guys but they do a little something to make them not identical

so i'm not sure they would want to name them the same



much like jesus though i be

Posted by bagchucker on 9/23/2020 12:22:00 PM (view original):
one thing seble says is AAA is based on the real named guys but they do a little something to make them not identical

so i'm not sure they would want to name them the same



much like jesus though i be

The normalization is the changed factor. The AAA player no longer normalizes against their original season/league, but against the most recent season. So guys from 1894/1930 are great because they normalize against 2019 instead of their original year.

If you use real names in a theme league or draft your own, they normalize against their original year. They only normalize against current year when they are system generated/fictitious named AAA players.

Why can’t they give you fill in guys....
Why must these players be decent?...They should just be human blow out patches for emergencies...

Posted by Lewb on 9/23/2020 1:20:00 PM (view original):
Why can’t they give you fill in guys....
Why must these players be decent?...They should just be human blow out patches for emergencies...

I enjoy AVG AAA in OL's. It is a fun mini game for veterans, and helps newbies when they make colossal errors ha. and in everything else you can set the level of talent