Change date of Rule 5 Draft?

Afino · 12-12-2009, 06:25 PM

Our league has a problem.

With a new playoff round being added this season, the playoffs now extend into November. Because of this, the date that free agents file is now after the 12/1 Rule 5 draft date (I believe it's 12/6 this year). Before this season and the expanded playoffs, free agents would always file prior to the Rule 5.

This is a problem because a lot of teams DFA pending FA's. Why? Because our league has a compensation system outside of the OOTP system that basically requires a team to hang onto FA's until they file. DFA'ing clears up 40-man roster spots in order to protect minor leaguers that would otherwise be exposed to the Rule 5. When the FA file date is after 12/1, we can't do this anymore, because any player DFA'd (usually star players heading for FA) would be off of the 40-man roster and therefore exposed to the Rule 5. We don't want that, but because the Rule 5 date of 12/1 and the FA file date (whatever the set amount of days after the season it is) is inflexible, we don't have a choice.

So really, there are two options:

- move the start of the season earlier
or
- move the Rule 5 draft day back 15 days or so. However, we can't seem to do that. Is there a way?

bwburke94 · 12-12-2009, 10:45 PM

AFAIK, no.

conception · 12-13-2009, 12:14 AM

A less direct solution to your problem may be to advance the start of your season up so it ends at roughly the same time it used to.

Alan T · 12-13-2009, 07:33 AM

You can't change the rule V draft date at all.

Unfortunately, I ran into problems trying to move seasons forward too far ahead of time as well because of spring training being scheduled by the AI on top of regular season games once when I was playing with it.

If I remember correctly, there might be a way to work around the spring training scheduling issue by trying to do the games manually, but my recollection was that it was a giant pain in the butt.

Sorry to be all bad news for you on this one.

Afino · 12-13-2009, 11:02 AM

No, it's the answer I expected. Thanks for giving me confirmation though.

conception · 12-13-2009, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan T

You can't change the rule V draft date at all.

Unfortunately, I ran into problems trying to move seasons forward too far ahead of time as well because of spring training being scheduled by the AI on top of regular season games once when I was playing with it.

If I remember correctly, there might be a way to work around the spring training scheduling issue by trying to do the games manually, but my recollection was that it was a giant pain in the butt.

Sorry to be all bad news for you on this one.

I've never toyed with the schedule too much but I would imagine that was an error somewhere in the schedule generation process and not something regular.

12-12-2009, 06:25 PM	#1
Afino Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 3,827	Change date of Rule 5 Draft? Our league has a problem. With a new playoff round being added this season, the playoffs now extend into November. Because of this, the date that free agents file is now after the 12/1 Rule 5 draft date (I believe it's 12/6 this year). Before this season and the expanded playoffs, free agents would always file prior to the Rule 5. This is a problem because a lot of teams DFA pending FA's. Why? Because our league has a compensation system outside of the OOTP system that basically requires a team to hang onto FA's until they file. DFA'ing clears up 40-man roster spots in order to protect minor leaguers that would otherwise be exposed to the Rule 5. When the FA file date is after 12/1, we can't do this anymore, because any player DFA'd (usually star players heading for FA) would be off of the 40-man roster and therefore exposed to the Rule 5. We don't want that, but because the Rule 5 date of 12/1 and the FA file date (whatever the set amount of days after the season it is) is inflexible, we don't have a choice. So really, there are two options: - move the start of the season earlier or - move the Rule 5 draft day back 15 days or so. However, we can't seem to do that. Is there a way? __________________ GUBA: Moscow Enforcers

12-13-2009, 07:33 AM	#4
Alan T All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mass. Posts: 1,963	You can't change the rule V draft date at all. Unfortunately, I ran into problems trying to move seasons forward too far ahead of time as well because of spring training being scheduled by the AI on top of regular season games once when I was playing with it. If I remember correctly, there might be a way to work around the spring training scheduling issue by trying to do the games manually, but my recollection was that it was a giant pain in the butt. Sorry to be all bad news for you on this one. __________________ - Front Office Offseason League. (Fast Paced OOTP-X and OOTP11 leagues, sims one season every week)

12-13-2009, 11:02 AM	#5
Afino Hall Of Famer Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 3,827	No, it's the answer I expected. Thanks for giving me confirmation though. __________________ GUBA: Moscow Enforcers

12-12-2009, 10:45 PM	#2
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,522	AFAIK, no.

12-13-2009, 12:14 AM	#3
conception All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,150	A less direct solution to your problem may be to advance the start of your season up so it ends at roughly the same time it used to.