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Originally Posted by BruceM
No one said "mirror MLB". What was said was have the basic baseball functions working properly. There's a big difference between basic baseball functions working and mirroring MLB.
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Except that...
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Originally Posted by BruceM
...such as waivers and FA compensation...
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...are very much MLB. Not only that, but FA compensation and waiver rules (amongst many others) have varied considerably over MLB's history. So there's the question of whether OOTP should just mimic the rules which exist now or if it should allow the option of recreating the rules the way they used to be (which would definitely have an impact on historical leagues).
Folks today are used to the July 31 trade deadline and the lack of distinction between league and interleague trades, since that's how it's been since 1986.
But from 1923-1985 the trade deadline was June 15, a month and a half earlier. And from 1953-1985 interleague trades were waiver restricted, which meant that an interleague trade required the player to clear waivers inside his own league during the off-season and before the trade deadline, while after the trade deadline the player had to clear waivers in both leagues. Naturally, this restriction made interleague trades more difficult to complete, and offered a different set of challenges to the GM.
Certainly long discussions could be had on what OOTP ought to focus on and what areas could be selectively simplified...