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Originally Posted by Nutlaw
Looks like the AI keeps their 40-man roster at exactly 25 players (plus any 15-day DL players) through Spring Training and the rest of the season.
I tried promoting 5 players from Double A onto an AI team's 40-man roster, and the next day, the team waived all of them!
Still looking...
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Again, thanks for your continued interest. Here's an aside: when Questdog and I discussed this awhile back (if the thread has merit, I'll provide you a link), we postulated that this may be an instance or setting environment wherein the AI overvalues holding on to option years. Given that this same behavior, while still surfacing in the younger players illogically, doesn't occur in the leagues with traditional service times to this extreme from the pre-season and throughout, effectively, the first three years. Edit: On that same note, there's been much discussion on ST overall and one of those issues is whether options should be expended at all during ST as the process is designed to serve as a tryout period. IRL, I'm not sure they are used in that evaluation period.
Certainly, I want the clean slate oriented league to work correctly. Having a league with no histories, where everybody's a nobody until they become somebody has always been something I've wanted from OOTP. However, a primary focus of using this tool, IMHO, is to view the more skeletal operation of the waiver system at work in, technically, developing players. I hope both roads will lead us to better operations of the system itself, if that makes sense.