Confusion - Plus a bug?

Fronzizzle · 07-23-2015, 05:18 PM

I've previously posted about my struggle with how to best handle my minor leagues. To figure out which of the DSL, VSL and GCL were the "lowest", someone suggested looking at the sabermetric modifiers. I did that, apparently the DSL and VSL are both at the same level, with the GCL just slightly better/higher. Great, so far.

When the draft rolls around, however, and the draftees sign, it always says "He can be found in the DFA section of your roster or on your teams lowest minor league level." Well, through 5 years, I've never had a signee go to the DFA area, they always get assigned to a minor league team - and the problem is, it's not always the same minor league team.

This past draft, 6 players were assigned to the GCL and the rest went to the already stocked VSL team. I literally have 45 players on the VSL team, and 8 on the GCL. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with roster size, age, draft pick number or position - it's just entirely random which players go to the GCL and which ones go to the VSL.

The maybe-bug I mentioned comes when I want to find my recent draftees. If I go to any view that includes Experience in it - just no. My VSL team is stocked with all 19, 20 and 21 year olds, and their experience ranges from 12 years down to 4 years. These are a mix of people promoted from my international complex as well as recent draftees. How does a 20 year old have 12 years of experience? Anyway, it's impossible to use this to figure out what players have been drafted where, so I have to go into each individual one to see when they were drafted.

So, my questions:
1) what's with the experience not working? I'm playing version 16.6, which is the latest as far as I can tell.
2) Is there a way to tell it to always put my drafted players on the same team - or even the same area (DFA?) so I can assign them?

Cinnamon J. Scudworth · 07-23-2015, 05:32 PM

One thing you can do is simply click through to the player by clicking on their name in the message notifying you that they have signed, and assign him to whatever team you desire via his profile page. Ditto for reviewing the draft log and clicking through to your draftees from there. I can't think of an easier way, unfortunately.

I sort of think it's unfortunate that the MLB quickstart has the DSL and VSL to begin with, since notionally that's exactly what your International Complex is intended to represent in the abstract. It's redundant. Of course, one can always delete those leagues from their game if they are annoyed by having so many Rookie leagues.

07-23-2015, 05:18 PM	#1
Fronzizzle Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 177	Confusion - Plus a bug? I've previously posted about my struggle with how to best handle my minor leagues. To figure out which of the DSL, VSL and GCL were the "lowest", someone suggested looking at the sabermetric modifiers. I did that, apparently the DSL and VSL are both at the same level, with the GCL just slightly better/higher. Great, so far. When the draft rolls around, however, and the draftees sign, it always says "He can be found in the DFA section of your roster or on your teams lowest minor league level." Well, through 5 years, I've never had a signee go to the DFA area, they always get assigned to a minor league team - and the problem is, it's not always the same minor league team. This past draft, 6 players were assigned to the GCL and the rest went to the already stocked VSL team. I literally have 45 players on the VSL team, and 8 on the GCL. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with roster size, age, draft pick number or position - it's just entirely random which players go to the GCL and which ones go to the VSL. The maybe-bug I mentioned comes when I want to find my recent draftees. If I go to any view that includes Experience in it - just no. My VSL team is stocked with all 19, 20 and 21 year olds, and their experience ranges from 12 years down to 4 years. These are a mix of people promoted from my international complex as well as recent draftees. How does a 20 year old have 12 years of experience? Anyway, it's impossible to use this to figure out what players have been drafted where, so I have to go into each individual one to see when they were drafted. So, my questions: 1) what's with the experience not working? I'm playing version 16.6, which is the latest as far as I can tell. 2) Is there a way to tell it to always put my drafted players on the same team - or even the same area (DFA?) so I can assign them?

07-23-2015, 05:32 PM	#2
Cinnamon J. Scudworth All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 1,119	One thing you can do is simply click through to the player by clicking on their name in the message notifying you that they have signed, and assign him to whatever team you desire via his profile page. Ditto for reviewing the draft log and clicking through to your draftees from there. I can't think of an easier way, unfortunately. I sort of think it's unfortunate that the MLB quickstart has the DSL and VSL to begin with, since notionally that's exactly what your International Complex is intended to represent in the abstract. It's redundant. Of course, one can always delete those leagues from their game if they are annoyed by having so many Rookie leagues. __________________ "Sometimes, this is like going to a grocery store. You’ve got a list until you get to the check-out stand. And then you start reading People magazine, and all this other [stuff] ends up in the basket." -Sandy Alderson on the MLB offseason Last edited by Cinnamon J. Scudworth; 07-23-2015 at 05:40 PM.