damientheomen3

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Teh_Showtime" data-cite="Teh_Showtime" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44604" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Are you hyping him? How impressive are his defenses?<p> </p><p> Great fights and early finishes will raise popularity a lot quicker</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Nah, not hyping him. His fights have all been good or great.</p><p> </p><p> In any case, I pressed on and after his next fight his popularity rose again. Not really sure what made that happen but it didn't persist at least.</p>

Had something pop up, not sure if it's a bug or I messed up when making my database. I made a new database with a single fed and set up the game to populate a single division of fighters through a few months of in-game simming. Now I'm a couple years down the road and the champion of the game seems to be capped at low level national popularity. I ran him on a title defense that got him about +6 popularity in the US (to get him to 33% nat) and then his next fight he got no popularity at all. He was still getting popularity in the other regions however since he was still high level regional in them (I have a single PPV network set to the highest level in every region in the game, for fun). My popularity just went up from mid regional to high regional in the US, and is mid regional everywhere else. Is there something I could've missed when making this database that could limit the popularity of fighters? Dude's got 60 marketing by the way, if that matters.

I'm getting the feeling Tommy Hunter picks it up and Matusz finally remembers how to pitch once Hammel goes back to being the #5 starter he is.

I think the O's stand a running chance. Showalter was great for them in his brief stint during his first season, then got them off the ground very well in their second season before things collapsed. I had them as my sleeper team then because of his great finish with them in his first year, and I have them there this season as well.