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Originally Posted by gigispeed1332
I started a franchise with my Blue Jays from their opening year of 1977 and I am only in 1983 and have already built a dynasty. I was able to seemingly fleece the AI on a few trades with the trade difficulty of Medium (have no switched it to hard) and have been able to pick up some of the best players in the game in the Rule 5 Draft (maybe I should avoid using the rule 5 draft all together as it seems the AI leaves some really great players there and furthermore, teams are not drafting them in the Rule 5 draft). These are 2 of the main reasons why in my first 6 years of the Blue Jays, I have made the World Series 4 times, won it 3 times and made the playoffs 5 consecutive years.
I was talkign to someone in the forums before and he had mentioned making some house rules when playing so the AI isn't completely beatable, well if the Rule 5 draft is not something that is going to get fixed through a patch or can be fixed through some setting changes in the game, I am going to have to assume that is a house rule for alot of people (not selecting anyone over 2 stars in the rule 5 draft or something like that for example). I picked up the AL Batting title winner of the last 2 years in the Rule 5 draft and the Cy Young winner of last year (pretty unfair).
I hope a patch comes to fix the rule 5 draft so this is not so easily abused, but otherwise I think I should just stop using it. Thoughts?
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Minor league roster limits are a known issue with respect to Rule 5 and with intermittent release of good prospects/high draft choices. As a first step remove roster limits on your lower minor leagues. Consider 30 man roster limits in higher leagues AA and AAA. Keep in mind that Markus can't have the game crash so it seems that he must allow for player movement when rosters are restricted. This IMO is why increased roster sizes mitigate the issues you see.
You should find little to excite you on the Rule 5 draft but
I recommend keeping it because without it some late developing prospects will never flower. In fact the Rule 5 should be a vehicle by which the human player loses prospects hoarded via advantageous deals with the AI to AI teams. Another human player issue is not keeping a full 40 man roster. If you check MLBTR you will see that in real life almost every team has a full 40-man roster. Almost every transaction made IRL results in a player move of some type and often leads to an acquisition by need by other teams. Put another way if you have 35 players on the 40 and the AI teams are at 40 you will always be at an advantage that doesn't occur in real life.