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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
In real life there are special roster rules in effect.
MLB realized early on that it wasn't fair to have the two teams playing overseas cut down to their final 25 players a week before the other teams did, so it invented special roster rules to assist the two teams.
The clubs playing overseas could bring 30 players with them, and all 30 could be used in any exhibition games played overseas. When it came to the regular season games, 28 of the 30 players were eligible to play in them. The day of the regular season game, the clubs had to select 25 of the 28 players for use, and it had to be the same 25 players in both games. In all respects the two games are counted as regular season MLB games.
After the regular season overseas games, the roster went back up to 28, and all 28 players could be used in the spring training games played back in the U.S. The teams then had to cut down to their final 25 at the same time as the rest of the MLB clubs did, in preparation for the continental opening season date.
These rules allowed the two clubs playing overseas to have 28 players for their final week, giving them some flexibility in assessing their talent prior to the start of the regular season in the U.S.
Given that the active roster limit is now 26, presumably the aforementioned roster numbers will be increased by one (31 / 29 / 26) for the teams playing overseas.
As to OOTP, it did NOT recreate these overseas roster rules previously, and I highly doubt it ever will. (There are certain fundamental roster transaction rules it has never recreated, despite both OOTP and the rules being around for a long time).
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Yeah, I'm only concerned with OOTP, with games being played while ST is still going on, and any possible consequences/work arounds.
This may have been so long ago it was pre-rewrite, ie 6.5 or 6.0? In any case I recall just using schedules from earlier seasons to avoid any problems.
Trouble being v24 was the first version with the "play everybody schedule" and that only covers one year. With v25 we get a second one so at least home/aways are balanced year to year, but v25 now has early games again.
Since I don't have v25 until Friday I wonder how OOTP is handling this. Schedule ST to be over before the games are played? Coded something so they can be played during ST but counted as regular season? Something else? Since OOTP starts without ST I'm wondering isn't this going to cause issues in season two?
Until I have v25 I can only speculate. The plan will be to move those early games to open days and if that has too many knock on effects, I'll move them to the two days before the "normal" season starts.
It's not a big deal in the grand scope of things, but it sure reminded me of something I had totally forgotten about from a long ago version of the game.
