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Old 07-03-2013, 09:22 PM   #1
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Why Is This Player Ineligible for Playoff Roster?

I'm running a historical game and the season is 1962. My team just made the World Series and I need to submit my playoff roster.

Buck Rodgers played 73 games during the season, is on the active roster, is on the 40-man roster, and is not on the disabled list. Yet he is supposedly ineligible for the playoff roster. How can this be?

And how to I edit the player to correct this?
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Old 07-03-2013, 10:32 PM   #2
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Where was he on Aug 31 1962?
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Old 07-03-2013, 10:51 PM   #3
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It looks like he was in AAA temporarily because I didn't want to send down another player who had to clear waivers. After a series of injuries caused me to shuffle the roster, I had demoted him since he had option years remaining.

Had I know this was going to be an issue, I would have called him up on August 31.

As it was, I called him up on Sept 1 since the roster was expanded anyway.

Is there no way to edit this? Am I able to change the transactions log and force the game to make him eligible? I don't see anything in the editor that would allow me to change his status.

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Old 07-03-2013, 10:57 PM   #4
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It looks like he was in AAA temporarily because I didn't want to send down another player who had to clear waivers. So I demoted him earlier since he had options years remaining.

Had I know this was going to be an issue, I would have called him up on August 31.

As it was, I called him up on Sept 1 since the roster was expanded anyway.

Is there no way to edit this? Am I able to change the transactions log and force the game to make him eligible? I don't see anything in the editor that would allow me to change his status.
Do you have anyone on the DL from Aug 31 or now? If so he can be put on the playoff roster.
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Old 07-03-2013, 11:06 PM   #5
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You can always just go into Commish Mode and edit him to be eligible. Halfway down on the left side, there's a checkbox for Playoff Roster Eligibility.
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Old 07-03-2013, 11:54 PM   #6
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I am in commissioner mode, and there is no option to edit a player's eligibility.

It's too late. I finally got fed up with it and just went into the World Series without him.

The game needs to have a reminder that, if it's August 31, you need to make sure that everyone you potentially want on the playoff roster is already on your active roster.

Or it needs to allow a player to be edited so that he is playoff eligible.
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Old 07-04-2013, 12:18 AM   #7
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Old 07-04-2013, 02:50 AM   #8
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The game needs to have a reminder that, if it's August 31, you need to make sure that everyone you potentially want on the playoff roster is already on your active roster.
No offence, but it's YOUR job as GM to understand the relevant transaction rules and to be aware of any important dates.
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Old 07-05-2013, 02:36 AM   #9
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No offence, but it's YOUR job as GM to understand the relevant transaction rules and to be aware of any important dates.
Then why does the game notify the user about the trade deadline, rule 5 draft, rookie draft, or roster expansion? Sorry, but your argument doesn't fly and isn't supported by the game's other design elements and features. Based on your logic, all reminders or notifications like this should be removed.
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Old 07-05-2013, 03:20 AM   #10
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Whether the game provides prompts or not does not obviate you from being a GM and knowing the various important dates and rules. You screwed up as GM. I'd say take your medicine, learn from the mistake, and move on. I don't expect you'll be overlooking the significance of Aug. 31 again!

Indeed, the problem seems to have arisen because you were too reliant on the game to remind you of everything. Which to me argues perhaps the game ought not to do as much hand-holding of its users.

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Old 07-05-2013, 10:54 AM   #11
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I'm thinking the game came be a little daunting to new players and anything that can be done to assist them can only help grow the community.
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Old 07-05-2013, 12:21 PM   #12
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While it WAS his mistake, I don't think asking that the game send out a reminder (like it does for those other important dates mentioned) is an unreasonable enhancement request.
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I agree. If there is a reminder on trade deadline day and roster expansion day and when DFA runs out it doesn't seem over the top to have "set your potential playoff roster day" flagged. Take note that all of them except Aug 31 will kick out of a sim so the precedent has been set.
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Old 07-05-2013, 01:23 PM   #14
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I'm thinking the game came be a little daunting to new players and anything that can be done to assist them can only help grow the community.
I would agree.

Except in this case I don't think Charlie is a new user. He's been around the game for awhile. So for someone new to the game the error is quite understandable. For an experienced user, I'm less inclined to be quite as sympathetic.

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I still want to know why he couldn't find the Playoff Roster Eligibility option...
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Old 07-05-2013, 02:38 PM   #16
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What's interesting in MLB is that many of its key dates are fixed and have changed little of the years. The main fixed dates of interest (not all of which are applicable to OOTP): May 15, June 15, July 31, Aug. 15, Aug. 31/Sept. 1.
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Old 07-05-2013, 10:08 PM   #17
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point of fact the game DOES remind the player of whats next such as draft and trading day and roster expansion. Playoff moves you name it. It will put a message in the message box or you can hit play now and the drop down screen will show the upcoming events for the current season
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I think the game is doing this incorrectly. Any player who has been up before August 31 should be eligible, correct? They don't have to be UP on that date? For example, if I have a player that has played all of June, but gets sent back down, comes up September 1, and remains on, until the end of the season, he should be eligible for playoffs, correct? If not, then only the 25 guys up on 8/31 are eligible, barring injury?
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Old 07-29-2013, 10:12 AM   #19
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I think the game is doing this incorrectly. Any player who has been up before August 31 should be eligible, correct? They don't have to be UP on that date? For example, if I have a player that has played all of June, but gets sent back down, comes up September 1, and remains on, until the end of the season, he should be eligible for playoffs, correct? If not, then only the 25 guys up on 8/31 are eligible, barring injury?
No. The player has to be UP on that date.

At least he used to have to be, until Brian Cashman found the loophole. Now, as a practical matter, he just has to be on the 40 man roster on 8/31. There's a loophole that allows you to replace an injured player with anyone who was on the 40 man on 8/31. The only limit is a non P has to be replaced by a non P and a P has to be replaced by a P.

What Cashman was the 1st to realize was, all he needed was to have a single player be on the DL on 8/31 and still be out when the postseason started. Then, that player could be on the postseason roster, but then immediately replaced by anyone who was on the 40 man on 8/31. Once Cashman started to use that loophole, everyone has been doing it. So, now, as a practical matter, all a player has to do is in be on the 40 on 8/31.

The most prominent example of this loophole was the 2002 Angels. Steve Green pitched in only 1 game in his whole career, but played his role in helping the Angels win the 2002 World Series. Green was on the DL the entire season. Since he was in the majors on 8/31 (albeit on the DL), Green was eligible for, and placed on, the postseason roster. He was then immediately able to be replaced due to injury. The Angels replaced him with September callup Francisco Rodriguez and the rest is history.

Another prominent example was the Rays placing September callup David Price on the postseason roster in 2008.


OOTP doesn't allow that loophole.
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Old 07-29-2013, 11:26 AM   #20
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I think the game is doing this incorrectly. Any player who has been up before August 31 should be eligible, correct? They don't have to be UP on that date? For example, if I have a player that has played all of June, but gets sent back down, comes up September 1, and remains on, until the end of the season, he should be eligible for playoffs, correct? If not, then only the 25 guys up on 8/31 are eligible, barring injury?
No, it is only players who were up on Aug31 that are eligible. So that player in your example before is not eligible (except as an injury replacement).

Playoff roster in OOTP is:
25 players on roster on Aug 31 +
anybody who was on the DL on Aug 31 +
Anybody if someone of the 25 eligible on Aug31 gets placed on the DL before the playoffs
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