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Does anybody know how to access MLB Gameday Advanced as opposed to the regular version?

Advanced was the only version I was seeing Sunday. I'll be looking even more carefully tonight as it's election day here in Kansas and I'm working tonight, covering about 60 area races. When I'm not banging my head on my keyboard looking at numbers, I'll be catching a glance of the game on gametracker, I hope.

Can you still access the "Classic" gameday look by switching the html around(changing the first "2007" to "2006") in the URL?

I hope so, because while they work the bugs out it may get faster and smoother as it goes on, right now I don't like it. It doesn't provide too much more information than the previous did and yet it's as slow as molasses in January and slows down everything else in the background (and my computer is a semi-decent one at that).

I sent email to mlb for what it's worth on the new gameday. Basically I told them there is not enough information on the screen. I would also like to see basketball scores, NASCAR point standings, the Dow Jones averages, the local high school scores, and also thought it would be cool if they superimposed the stadium over a google earth map. Showing the current moon phase would be a nice touch, and of course getting up to the second weather information from around the world almost seems appropriate. If they could deliver that information with cool sound effects like "SWOOSH" and "DING", all the better - and add to it a crowd roar, "POP' of the mit when a catch is made or after each strike, and a "CRACK" of the bat calibrated to mimic the actual sound made. I would also like to know the number of revolutions on the ball as it traverses toward the plate.

There simply is not enough information on that screen to be of any use.

jim wrote:I sent email to mlb for what it's worth on the new gameday. Basically I told them there is not enough information on the screen. I would also like to see basketball scores, NASCAR point standings, the Dow Jones averages, the local high school scores, and also thought it would be cool if they superimposed the stadium over a google earth map. Showing the current moon phase would be a nice touch, and of course getting up to the second weather information from around the world almost seems appropriate. If they could deliver that information with cool sound effects like "SWOOSH" and "DING", all the better - and add to it a crowd roar, "POP' of the mit when a catch is made or after each strike, and a "CRACK" of the bat calibrated to mimic the actual sound made. I would also like to know the number of revolutions on the ball as it traverses toward the plate.

There simply is not enough information on that screen to be of any use.

Here’s what I wrote in another thread about the new gameday:

The new one definitely does not work very well. Here’s a graph of my cpu usage with the new version:

and with the old version:

I hope this is a work in progress and they will improve gameday before the season starts. I like the way the new one looks, but I’m not going to let it take up 25% of my cpus power.

My computer may not be the greatest, but it’s good enough that any application that continuously uses that much of the cpu’s power needs to be rewritten.

I have a decent — but not great — computer at the office. Having Gameday open made the whole thing react in minutes, rather than seconds. I was really hopeful that it was just a first day problem, or that it was something having to do with a conflict with other programs I use. Not that they're anything more than e-mail, web and word processing. Guess we'll just have to hope MLB gets this fixed soon. Anyone know if that suggestion to get the classic back works?

CardHawk wrote:I have a decent — but not great — computer at the office. Having Gameday open made the whole thing react in minutes, rather than seconds. I was really hopeful that it was just a first day problem, or that it was something having to do with a conflict with other programs I use. Not that they're anything more than e-mail, web and word processing. Guess we'll just have to hope MLB gets this fixed soon. Anyone know if that suggestion to get the classic back works?

Yes, it does. It gives you an option of which way you'd like to view it when you input "y2006" into the url (did for me the first time anyway). Here's the Padres/Giants game that's going on right now.

oh, good...i thought i was the only one

Perfect. Makes being at work tonight that much easier to deal with. Thanks.