PureSim Update with 2014 Stats

Nice to see Pure Sim still up and running.

Hey brother.
Yeah life has been a crazy thing for awhile. Stepped away from all sim games.
Finally hitting a good stride though and was missing Pure Sim.
Taking my daughter to her first minor league baseball game next sunday.
Hope things are good for you my friend.

Frank.

(Manager Name Change)
Not exactly. You can't CHANGE the existing manager, but you CAN create a new/custom one and then "hire" him. To do this:

1. From the Home screen, click on Options and Utilities.
2. Select the More Association Options tab.
3. In the Managers section, select Add Custom Manager.
4. Give him (or her if you're feeling liberal) a First Name then a Last Name then click on Add Manager. They've now been added to the Manager "pool".
5. Back at the Home screen, click on Front Office to go to your team's Front Office screen
6. From here, select Manager AI Tendencies.
7. Once the tendencies slider screen fully loads, select the Import Manager button at the bottom of that window.
8. Scroll down to find the Manager you created in Step 4, single-click on them and then click on Import.
9. Adjust sliders to fit the personality you want them to have (if applicable; I personally always manage each and every game, so these sliders are irrelevant to me).
10. Click on Apply Changes. 
11. Click on Close.
12. Enjoy your new manager. 

(AI Trades)
Yes- AI will consider and offer trades IF you activated that option when creating the league. It's ON by default, but you would have had the option to turn it off. There is also a "slider" under Home Screen -> Options and Utilities -> More Association Options tab where you can determine AI trade intelligence/difficulty; will they give up Pedro Martinez for Alfredo Amezaga or will they actually use their brains when making that call? Also, there is no "traditional" Trading Block, where you have an idea of who a team is willing to shop. If the offer is right, they'll let almost anyone go.


(Simming Before Your Game)
Yes- regrettably, there is no 'Sim All Games Expect For The One The Team I Am Managing Is Going To Play' feature. The order is firm- you have to sim your game first, then you sim the rest of the games for that day.


(FAQ vs Questions)
I strongly recommend the questions. Ask us, the long-time fans and players of the game; not only will you get the best and most accurate feedback (from people who have been playing the game for years and years and years) but we LOVE finding reasons to talk about this game, so you also shine a little happiness into our lives. 

I seem to go through slumps with my base stealers where sometimes, none of my guys will attempt a steal even though I clicked on it 20 times through the entire game.

Color codes are shown in one of the roster pages. There are more than one shade of blue so if you are not sure, you can always click on the pitcher's name and look to see what percentage he is at. I generally don't use start or use a RP unless he is at 100%. You may have a RP with a pitch count of 75 put in the game and pitch one inning using only 6 pitches, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should leave him in for more. It depends on how you feel about the game situation and what the rest of your bullpen looks like. Even though a high pitch count, one inning a game has a better chance of being able to use him in several games in a row if needed.

My general rule is if a player goes brown, he gets a day off. If gray, he is injured and even if it is minor for one game, he gets the day off. I set the injury bars at 450 for both pitchers and players because I want teams to be forced to use more players. As a house rule, if an injury is 10 plus days, automatic trip to the DL.

There is a page with the color cods somewhere. Click through places on your roster page, Front Office and Home pages. It is in there somewhere.

As for bench players, the easiest way for me to decide is to go to the player's card and click on defense chart. I wish there was an easier way like having the positions by color code in the column where it is now. Any position in red don't need to be listed.

I don't use photos, but I do wish the game had all the different stadiums computer generated, since it is a computer game. With the view we have with the generic field, the others could be done in the same view. It would be cool to see the Green Monster when in Boston. I don't want photos.