Season Mode

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

Contents 1 Getting Started 2 Owner Points 3 Season Events 4 Player Ratings/Skills 5 Practice 6 Gameplay (Playing vs. Simulating) 7 Amateur Draft 7.1 How it works 8 All Star Game 9 Contract Renewals 10 Free Agents 11 Trading Players

Getting Started

1. Team selection options

a.Use your favorite MLB team and guide them to the World Series by taking over as the GM. If

you'd like to use an expansion team, you must buy the ability in the game shop. To be able to buy it,

you must have finished a season with at least 13 awards (includes monthly and possibly weekly awards).

b. In the game shop, you can buy bonuses that allow you to start with more points then you began

with. You can buy a small (10,000) bonus, a medium bonus (30,000) or a large (50,000) bonus. You must

buy a small bonus to buy a medium bonus and a medium bonus for a large bonus.

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 50,000

points (not including other playoff series).

3. When your player ins awards like 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. When you start the draft, you will see a viewing screen with all players. They are divided into multiple categories (all, infield, outfield, pitcher, catcher). When viewing a player you will see his name, skin color, right/left handedness, comments, and a brief estimate of abilities. Potential is how fast skills increase, with 5 stars the highest and 1 the lowest. The draft is very important to getting new players. As the aging veterans retire, draft picks (and Success Mode players) are their only replacement.

All Star Game

   a. What actually happens.
    * You control the side that your team is on.

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 If you want to obtain a certain player, but his price is too high, a good strategy is to trade your guy for a guy who's a little bit better (may take some reloading), and then that guy for another guy who's a little bit better, and so on until you get the player you want. b. Trading re-signed players/free agents in the following season