Question Regarding International Leagues Setup

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by BaseballGOAT

Lukas, on the opposite side of the equation, the MLB side... do you think we'll ever get a contract option for international free agents to be able to skip arbitration in the MLB? I know right now the contract status doesn't work well for someone like Suzuki in Chicago since he can't be eligible for ROY and still skip arbitration like his contract is set to do

I certainly hope we can eventually make this happen

No promises on when though.

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

There are reasons behind where is checked and not, though that's not to say maybe it shouldn't be changed.

The *** is tricky, because we basically have to choose between having the rules apply correctly to younger international players or older ones. Unchecking the box means the game will deal correctly with younger players but not (necessarily) with older (established) players who sign from other leagues. Checking it would mean the game deals correctly with older players but not younger ones.

As mentioned above, given the ***'s restrictive free agency rules and the way those rules do apply just the same to younger foreign players when they sign, it makes the most sense to have this unchecked imo. Otherwise, those young players would unrealistically become free agents within a year or so, rather than having to wait the full FA period.

The downside is that this means some established players do not get released at the end of their deals correctly. But given the high level of the *** and that most of the established players it signs have already accrued significant service time in other leagues, a lot of these guys should have enough service time to simply become FA's at the end of their contract due to service time. If not, then they will kind of get stuck in the *** for a few more years.

If we did things the other way around as far as checking the boxes, it would deal with the established players correctly but not the younger players. So it's just a matter of preference, which way you want things to go. Either way, there's going to be a subset of players the game deals with better than others.

For the LMB it's a similar situation but given that the service time requirements are even shorter there and the option to have players be able to be purchased from the league for a minimal fee is set, this means that established free agents are not very heavily locked in to the league even with the button unchecked.

At least, that was the rationale here, but on rethinking things in light of this discussion, I do think overall it probably makes the most sense to have the box checked here even for leagues like the *** and the LMB. So we'll change that for the next patch in the international leagues where it's not set.

Thank you Lukas for this explaination..this definitely helps people to better understand their choices, and why pre-sets might be a certain way. Much appreciated.

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by turtle4499

So I've messed around with this a fair bit before. It only matters in leagues where arb years are long. Which only matters for ***, KBO, CPBL, LMB (mexico). As for why it's not checked by default it's probably just to maintain backwards compatibility as it's a new feature. Reset service time shouldn't ever be checked except in MLB.

There is also the complication in that it matters if you want to make MLB the default league or not. The devs may have just assumed if you were adding multiple major leagues you looked through the settings. It doesn't make a lot of sense to check it if you are making *** your primary league.

Thank you also!’ Makes sense.