[comp.sys.amiga] Earl Weaver Baseball Commissioner's Disk

rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Rich Carreiro) (08/23/89)

Hi!

To anyone out there that has bought the EWB Commissioner's Disk,
have you found the scheduler to be totally brain dead?  If asked to do
an AL schedule, you'll have teams playing something like 80 games in a
row.  The NL schedule is even worse - the scheduler schedules all 162 games
consecutively.  Don't the brain-dead idiots at EA know anything about
baseball?  Does anyone know if EA realizes this problem and if there is
any effort to fix it?  Can someone in the Bay area call'em and find out
[(415) 571-7171]?  I do like the other stuff, such as the in-depth
stat sorting.  Thank god that you can now give individual teams
day(s) off -- allowing you to play a real schedule.  I still
wish they'd work on my two big rmaining grips:
1) pitching stats for non-pitchers are not kept (don't laugh - I once
played a 17 inning game where I had to bring in an outfielder to pitch...
and he got the win!)
2) batting stats for pitchers are not kept

Both these problems manifest themselves in team totals, since team totals
are computed by adding up individual totals.  It certainly doesn't
make the game unplayable, but it is annoying.

One final thing about the commish disk.  EA lied abotu the park designing 
utility.  Take something like Fenway and load it into the design utility.
It will look nothing like it does when actually playing EWB.

Changing the subject, does anyone know if EA has any plans to bring
Bird-Jordan to the Amiga?  Last I called they said "No way!"
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* Rich Carreiro       "I get on my knees and pray, we don't get fooled again! *
* rlcarr@athena.mit.edu                 -- The Who                            *
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