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Originally Posted by rexrowland
In real life, how do winter league contracts work? Are they one-year deals and the players can choose to return to the same team or not the following winter, or do players come back to the same teams because they sign multi-year contracts?
I would like to set up real-life winter leagues in my universe, but with fictional players who are free to play elsewhere in summer. In the current OOTP setup, that would require one-year contracts?
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Disclaimer: I can only speak of the LMP as that's the one I know.
Firstly, there's a draft where the teams get to pick upcoming mexican and foreign talents that decide they want to play in the league. Then they get signed to lifetime contracts pretty much. There's no free agency per se, they can only change teams when traded or if the team that drafted them decides they don't want then. Another deciding factor is whether or not the parent clubs allow the players to come, this happens especially with Major Leaguers (ie Sergio Romo and Roberto Osuna with Charros, etc)
With the current OOTP setup it's very hard to set up the kind of winter leagues that exist in the Caribbean Association. It could be possible if you set up the WL as being able to select any player and then manually select the rosters each year, but I consider that to be much more work than it's worth.
Anyway if you have further questions or want help with anything, feel free to DM me.