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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
Well, I don't play fictional or contemporary leagues much, but you have to pay attention to the players you're drafting, their salaries or contract demands, service time, etc. I got burned on those things when I first started playing OOTP, so don't feel bad. Sometimes you have to do some test leagues to figure this stuff out.
Or, you can always delete all service time for players after you create your league. Then no one has any service time to worry about.
To me, if you're creating a brand new fictional baseball league, this makes more sense anyway. Service time would only apply if your fictional league was somehow part of the major leagues, like a third major league, and it was subject to the agreement that governs the NL and AL.
If you're actually running the MLB but doing an inaugural draft or something like that, then you can still delete all service time, or you can simply pay careful attention to players' service time and the contracts they'll have when drafting.
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It's the contracts that's doing it, though, right? They have ML contracts so they have to be on the 40-man roster. Will getting rid of service time take care of that? And why would the AI draft these unusable players?
I'm just going to let it happen and move on with the waivers and resigning players to minor league contracts, but seriously, I thought the draft would take care of that stuff for me. IE, after round 40, nobody getting drafted should have an ML contract regardless of what they want. They're a 41st round draft pick at best. Total crap. Ugh.
Hey, that's a great idea for a 'rule'. A little check box that says, "Every pick past round 40 will not have a major league contract". That would be spectacular.