How do you turn off the player right to refuse demotion?

[Killing Time]

How do you turn off the player right to refuse demotion? I can't find the switch. Obviously I am completely brain dead on this and missing something obvious.

[robc]

Game Setup -> League Setup -> Rules

[Malleus Dei]

What he wrote. Far left side, about halfway down.

[kckid4u]

You send Tony and Alfonzo to his house and give him an offer he can't refuse.

[Le Grande Orange]

As a minor historical note, by removing the right to refuse a minor league assignment you're returning to 1913, which is the last season in which a major league player had to accept an assignment to the minors.

[CHCfan]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

As a minor historical note, by removing the right to refuse a minor league assignment you're returning to 1913, which is the last season in which a major league player had to accept an assignment to the minors.

You are literally my favorite poster on this board

[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

As a minor historical note, by removing the right to refuse a minor league assignment you're returning to 1913, which is the last season in which a major league player had to accept an assignment to the minors.

Good. Ballplayers are employees, not gods.

[Le Grande Orange]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Good. Ballplayers are employees, not gods.

Yes, employees that had a contract for a year's service that could be terminated with just ten days' notice. A contract that bound them perpetually to the same employer unless that employer sent them elsewhere, and the player had no choice but to agree to the change or stop participating in his chosen profession. Then there was the added wrinkle that, although the contract specified a rate of pay, if it was assigned to a minor league club that pay was cut upon assignment to rates of pay typical in that minor league.

So not only did the player have to accept the assignment or stop playing baseball, he got a pay cut in the process. In other words, whatever his contract stipulated didn't really mean a whole lot.

Which is why major league players, in 1914, first received the right to refuse an assignment to the minors. At that time the right was limited to those with ten or more years of major league service. In 1954 it was reduced to eight years' service, and in 1976 it was reduced to five years, which is where it still is today.

(Technically, a player with three or more years of major league service, or facing a second outright assignment to the minors, can also refuse the assignment. However, the choice for these players is either accept the assignment and keep getting paid according to their contract, or refuse the assignment and become a free agent, forfeiting any remaining pay on their contract. OOTP does not model this particular aspect of the rules.)

[Tullius]

@ LGO

As the original question is answered i want hijack the thread because your last comment was very interesting and i have also a question.

B. Rader writes in "Baseball" that 1913 was there something like a "National Commission". Now the interesting fact:

"Confronted with the possibility of players defecting to the newly created Federal League, the commission granted reluctantly a few concessions, including the right of big league veterans of ten years to negotiate with any club they pleased."

Does mean they were FA ?

[wildcatrevival]

Originally Posted by Tullius

@ LGO

As the original question is answered i want hijack the thread because your last comment was very interesting and i have also a question.

B. Rader writes in "Baseball" that 1913 was there something like a "National Commission". Now the interesting fact:

"Confronted with the possibility of players defecting to the newly created Federal League, the commission granted reluctantly a few concessions, including the right of big league veterans of ten years to negotiate with any club they pleased."

Does mean they were FA ?

obviously LGO can give you a better answer than I can, but if I remember correctly they did promise free agency but it was never actually tested or granted. After the Federal League failed, they quickly returned to business as usual.