Couple problems : Unsigned FAs, Too frequent moves, Minor League injuries ...

[Honoric]

Hey there,

So I bought this game and trying to get to the bigs by managing in the minors "level by level". I'm now managing the A level team of the Cleveland Indians and I'm getting frustrated by the daily changes in my roster - 3-4 players are shifting in and out every day. Not a single day goes where I don't have players being moved from rookie, back to my team (same player often), etc.

2nd thing: It seems like there's lots of unsigned free agents : I'm in 1988 and on April 20th there's still at least a dozen of unsigned 4 stars+ players like Tony Gwynn. Which kinda makes me want to restart as my historical data will be inaccurate.

Any hints on how to improve those? I'm fine with the AI doing some shifts occasionally but the back and fort of the same players gotta be a bug of some kind. Also when I have an injured starting pitcher on my A level team I can't seem to be able to put it on the DL so I'm down right now with a 4 starters - 4 relievers team with 2 injured for the season guys on my roster.

Anyways thanks for the pointers. I used to play this game alot on 6.5 - giving this a shot again now to see how it fares and would like eventually to try online leagues once I'm more comfortable with how it works.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Honoric

Also when I have an injured starting pitcher on my A level team I can't seem to be able to put it on the DL so I'm down right now with a 4 starters - 4 relievers team with 2 injured for the season guys on my roster.

There is no minor league DL in OOTP. It's been requested several times, but according to Markus it'd be a bear to code, so it's not made it in yet.

The AI should, when you proceed to the next day, sign the necessary minor league free agent players to field a complete team for its next game.

[Cryomaniac]

I suppose I should ask Markus, but what exactly makes a minor league DL any harder to code than a Major League one? Surely you could just have a DL that is for all levels of minors.

[JWay]

Originally Posted by Cryomaniac

I suppose I should ask Markus, but what exactly makes a minor league DL any harder to code than a Major League one? Surely you could just have a DL that is for all levels of minors.

I'm fairly certain if it was easy to throw into the game, Markus would have done it by now. He does a pretty good job of getting the necessary features in each new game efficiently. A minor league DL would be cool, but it wouldn't be worth 2 weeks of development time. If it took him just one day, it'd be there I'm sure.

And I'm guessing that its not that it'd be hard to code, but it'd open up a huge box of worms for him to close up to make sure there was no, bugs, cheats, and to teach the AI how to use it.

[Honoric]

Thanks for the responses.. on the free agent thing: anything I can do to have the teams sign up these guys by opening day? I don't recall it happening - or at least on that extent - on 6.5.

Also is there tricks to have the AI calm down on the minor league shuffling? Getting tired of rewriting my lineup every game

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by JWay

And I'm guessing that its not that it'd be hard to code, but it'd open up a huge box of worms for him to close up to make sure there was no, bugs, cheats, and to teach the AI how to use it.

So the same as any other feature then?

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by JWay

I'm fairly certain if it was easy to throw into the game, Markus would have done it by now. He does a pretty good job of getting the necessary features in each new game efficiently. A minor league DL would be cool, but it wouldn't be worth 2 weeks of development time. If it took him just one day, it'd be there I'm sure.

And I'm guessing that its not that it'd be hard to code, but it'd open up a huge box of worms for him to close up to make sure there was no, bugs, cheats, and to teach the AI how to use it.

There's one way around that, it seems to me: stop treating minor leagues as appendages of the majors. Instead, make ALL leagues be fully unique, separate, independent entities, each one capable of having its own rules, options, and league totals. OOTP already does this for primary leagues, and such primary leagues can interact albeit in a very limited fashion.

Extend that concept and let all leagues become fully-fledged entities. Then a DL for each league should be no issue. It would also allow much better historical leagues since the AL and NL could then be handled as separate leagues rather than as subleagues of an MLB league.

Then allow such separate leagues to associate together under a higher-level grouping. When associated together, leagues become able to interact in specific ways, e.g. trade and sell players between them, have interleague regular season games, hold a post-season championship series, conduct a unified amateur draft, etc.

This "league association" idea has been floating around for almost two years now. It really should be adopted for OOTP 10 to push the game and its possibilities to the next level.

[RchW]

There is a work around for minor league players and the DL. Right click_transactions and designate for assignment. Right click_transactions again and the DL is now available.

Some players may need to be waived so you may risk them being claimed. I've never lost a player this way.

A minor league DL needs to happen because the AI does not bring up players to fill the slot of an injured player.