Season Mode

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Season Mode allows you to lead your favourite MLB team or a team of your creation through 10 seasons of Baseball.

Getting Started

   a. Team selection options
      1. Something about designing your Expansion team.
   b. Additional starting owner points from main shop

Owner Points

   a. How they are spent
       1. Points are lost every game to pay off player salaries.  The lower the team salary, the less points you lose.
       2. You can spend the points on practice items to further improve your players.
       3. If you wish to release a player to make room for another, you lose a designated amount of points.
       4. You can trade them like cash considerations to help acquire other players.         
   b. How they are earned
       1. There are certain goals for each game that when reached, will net you a certain amount of points.  The more you accomplish a goal, the harder it gets, and the more points you get.
       2. Winning a playoff series gives you a ton of points.  A World Series win gives you 50000 points (not including other playoff series).
       3. If your player wins an award (Rookie of the Year, Relief Pitcher of the Year, Pitcher of the Year, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, or MVP) you receive additional points.
   c. Tips for managing owner points
       1.  Most Success Mode players are cheaper.  Use more of them.
       2.  If you team starts with some overpaid players trade them for lesser, but cheaper players.  For example, trading Roger Clemens and Hideki Matsui can get you Aaron Cook and Troy Tulowitzki.  Johnny Damon can acquire Curtis Granderson, etc.

Season Events

   a. Spring Training
   b. Opening Day
   c. Amateur Draft
       1.  The draft order is in the reverse order of the previous year's standings.
       2.  Perhaps starting as the Devil Rays is a good strategy.  They have a low payroll with decent players (Upton, Young, Crawford, Baldelli, and Kazmir).  They also have the first draft pick.
   d. All-Star game
   e. Trade deadline
   f. Playoffs
   g. Contract Renewals
   h. Free Agents

Player Ratings/Skills

   a. Strategy for upgrading player abilities/skills

Practice

   a. auto vs. manual
   b. How to manage and track progress/experience
   c. Purchasing practice items
   d. Practice groups
   e. Special practice types available only in spring training or by purchasing the option

Gameplay (Playing vs. Simulating)

Amateur Draft

How it works

In early June of each season the amateur player draft takes place. Much like the real MLB draft teams take turns selecting available players in the reverse order that they finished in the year before.

Unlike the MLB draft there are only two rounds in which to select players. Furthermore, there is no signing bonus awarded to the players for signing with a particular team.

   b. What you should expect (player development)

Contract Renewals

   a. How it works
   b. If you lose players to free agency

Free Agents

   a. How it works
   b. Registering Success Mode players

Trading Players

   a. Strategies for trades
   b. Trading re-signed players/free agents in the following season

Unlockables (Season Shop and Main Shop)

   a. Arrange team in season mode
   b. Starting owner points upgrades
   c. Pitcher and Batter forms