Minor Leagues are Broken

The Usual Suspect · 07-08-2025, 09:04 PM

I tried creating a fictional league and playing as minor league manager. It is April 16th, I only have a 5 man pitching staff left. My GM keeps taking my pitchers away.

DrSatan · 07-09-2025, 09:04 AM

Do you have "allow incomplete minors" enabled? That might be it.

highandoutside · 07-09-2025, 09:25 AM

Another "broken" thread with no information on the settings the OP is using. It's tiresome.

Bagpipes5 · 07-09-2025, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by highandoutside

Another "broken" thread with no information on the settings the OP is using. It's tiresome.

Equally tiresome: another thoughtless and lazy post that adds nothing to the conversation.

dmacgreg37 · 07-09-2025, 10:03 PM

This could go on for a long time...

NoOne · Yesterday, 11:59 PM

When doing custom things, it's easy to make something that doesn't work. that is not the game breaking. It's merely out of balance due to choice of settings.

if you don't provide enough new players each year (how they enter the league depends on how the league is setup up but must occur one way or another), you will see incomplete minor league teams.

If you use instituted any MiL rules for age or service time, this is a very easy way to screw it all up unintentionally, too.

add up discoveries, iafa, draftees, players from 'wherever' in the settings that enter the league each year... i'll just do rookie league example, because it gets less easy to predict for upper levels... so if 50 new players per team is the average and you have 3 rookie leagues... you'll probably run out of players.. it'll be borderline in this example and if you have a service time rule of 2 years in rookie, it'll run out for certain. 50x2 years is 100 players and some of those don't go to rookie league, so it'd be very tight.

you can look at rate of incoming players and compare to size of your mil system... that's the first thing i'd assess if the mil is running out of players or can't fill out a pitching staff with enough SP etc etc.

can always use a restrored backup under different name to test such settings.. zoom out 10 years and look at distirbution of mil teams across numerous organizations (change view of roster and transaction screen to show multiple mil levels all on one screen)... any lacking players? Any pooling of too many players?

a service time or age rule can help with pooling at a particular level, but always becareful of using these roster rules. you'll have to zoom out another 10 years to see what it causes. ~10 years is a good number to have a near full turnover of mil.

service time rules can maek the math easy.. you'll know how long players can potentially stay at one level before moving on... the further up the ladder you go, the smaller the portion of players that adhere to it... right? like some draftees start in A-league.. some rookie league players advance faster than others etc etc... increased unknowns as you go. you can easily predict if rookie leauge remains full but may need to zoom out 10 years to make sure AA and AAA are rocking.

07-08-2025, 09:04 PM	#1
The Usual Suspect Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: NC Posts: 7	Minor Leagues are Broken I tried creating a fictional league and playing as minor league manager. It is April 16th, I only have a 5 man pitching staff left. My GM keeps taking my pitchers away.

07-09-2025, 09:04 AM	#2
DrSatan All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Parts Unknown Posts: 581	Do you have "allow incomplete minors" enabled? That might be it.

07-09-2025, 09:25 AM	#3
highandoutside All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 679 Infractions: 1/0 (0)	Another "broken" thread with no information on the settings the OP is using. It's tiresome.

07-09-2025, 10:03 PM	#5
dmacgreg37 Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 491	This could go on for a long time...

Yesterday, 11:59 PM	#6
NoOne Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,252	When doing custom things, it's easy to make something that doesn't work. that is not the game breaking. It's merely out of balance due to choice of settings. if you don't provide enough new players each year (how they enter the league depends on how the league is setup up but must occur one way or another), you will see incomplete minor league teams. If you use instituted any MiL rules for age or service time, this is a very easy way to screw it all up unintentionally, too. add up discoveries, iafa, draftees, players from 'wherever' in the settings that enter the league each year... i'll just do rookie league example, because it gets less easy to predict for upper levels... so if 50 new players per team is the average and you have 3 rookie leagues... you'll probably run out of players.. it'll be borderline in this example and if you have a service time rule of 2 years in rookie, it'll run out for certain. 50x2 years is 100 players and some of those don't go to rookie league, so it'd be very tight. you can look at rate of incoming players and compare to size of your mil system... that's the first thing i'd assess if the mil is running out of players or can't fill out a pitching staff with enough SP etc etc. can always use a restrored backup under different name to test such settings.. zoom out 10 years and look at distirbution of mil teams across numerous organizations (change view of roster and transaction screen to show multiple mil levels all on one screen)... any lacking players? Any pooling of too many players? a service time or age rule can help with pooling at a particular level, but always becareful of using these roster rules. you'll have to zoom out another 10 years to see what it causes. ~10 years is a good number to have a near full turnover of mil. service time rules can maek the math easy.. you'll know how long players can potentially stay at one level before moving on... the further up the ladder you go, the smaller the portion of players that adhere to it... right? like some draftees start in A-league.. some rookie league players advance faster than others etc etc... increased unknowns as you go. you can easily predict if rookie leauge remains full but may need to zoom out 10 years to make sure AA and AAA are rocking.