** CBL’s OPENING DAY MLB 2024 ROSTER NOW AVAILABLE ***
Hey gang!!!!
WOW WOW WOW
I can’t thank the community enough for nearly ~25,000 views for my previous posts over the past few months on the roster set!! For those that have followed along the roster set progress the past few months it has been a true labor of love and nearly five months invested.
Some may or may not know that I created the OOTP6 MLB roster set for Markus and team WAAAAY BACK and have helped the OOTP roster team off and on the past several years.
In nearly two decades of roster calibration work since that time, I am perhaps most excited and pleased with this roster. I am extremely excited to share this roster set with everyone.
Creating and calibrated rosters is not my day job, as I have a full time job, married, and two busy active teenagers as well that keep me more than busy. Maybe someday roster can become full time and pay the bills and I can devote even more time to it.
*** Once you download, it’s important to follow these steps first ***
Unzip the file to your saved games folder
When you open the file in OOTP, select your team
Once you select your team make sure to select “enable all cpu teams to make transactions”
I’d also suggest running the computer manager for all teams so the AI can shuffle around players to different minor league levels
Roster set features:
- 2024 projections from Steamer and/or ZIPS for thousands of players
- 2024 accurate MLB schedule
- 2023 MLB awards (MVP, et al)
- 2024 MLB rosters as of Opening Day.
- Top 100 overall MLB prospects reviewed and calibrated. Most MLB top prospects are FV 50-55 in real life and in my roster set. True elite prospects like Jackson Holliday/Jackson Chourio/Ethan Salas/Junior Caminero/Paul Skenes will be 65+ FV range.
- In addition to above most MLB players are somewhere in 45-55 range….This is in line with MLB statistical projections as well. True elites such as Ronald Acuna & Jacob DeGrom, are still in the rare elite 75-80 FV. My ratings/potentials system universe are typically more conservative in nature.
- Top 30 prospects for each team reviewed and calibrated utilizing scouting reports from Baseball America and MLB Pipeline
- Top 50 2024 international free agents reviewed, calibrated, and placed on correct team
- Baltimore ownership updated
- Updated coaches at least for MLB teams
- Rule 5 selections updated and flagged
- Top 100 MLB 2024 draft prospects updated and calibrated based on scouting reports from Baseball America and MLB Pipeline. By all accounts a weaker draft class so only a handful of above average prospects (55 FV). Solid depth on projected average prospects (50 FV).
- R/L splits for at least MLB roster batters using either career splits or 2023 splits
- Three new members selected to Hall of Fame
- All trades, free agents, et al as of 3/28 ~ 10am CST
- Updated injury information as of 3/28 ~ 10am CST
- Updated contract information as accurately as we can get (some contracts with multiple opt outs not possible to 100% replicate…for instance Bobby Witt Jr has 4 player opt outs…in the file the player opt out I’ve placed on the first one)
I play with minors & experience limits to keep players moving through the minors and no 35 year olds dominating Rookie ball. I believe PSU or another board member posted these in the past and works quite well:
- AAA & AA: 30 player roster, no limit on experience
- A+: 30 player roster, 5 years experience and less
- A: 30 player roster, 4 years experience and less
- DSL: 50 player roster, 3 years experience and less
- Rookie: 50 player roster, 3 years experience and less
All minor league teams set for a 6 man rotation
Other misc notes….
I do not “overrate” prospects to get them in a certain order on team’s top 30. There are many high floor types (40/45ish FV) that are older and still in minors that OOTP ranks much lower that traditional publications. I did review and calibrate all of them, however my order/OOTP rankings may not match with other traditional publications.
So far in my test simulations of my roster set in OOTP25 overall totals and individual contributions versus real life 2024 are looking VERY strong.
In general my sources for ratings/projections heavily lean on Baseball America, Fangraphs, and MLB Pipeline.
OPENING DAY IS HERE!!!
TIME TO CELEBRATE MLB AND OOTP BASEBALL!!!
DOWNLOAD LINK BELOW
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kib...ew?usp=sharing